Acceptance Quotations

I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.

Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

The essence of greatness is neglect of the self.

The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self- solitude is the enemy of well- being.

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

Children tease each other because you're short or you're tall or you're a redhead or because you're ugly or because you're smart or because you're dumb or all kinds of differences and as parents we have to deal with that and strengthen our children to be comfortable with themselves and also to show empathy and acceptance towards others.

Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.

In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

We have come dangerously close to accepting the homeless situation as a problem that we just can't solve.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.

The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

We only have a Plan A. The acceptance and full implementation of the existing plan, the so-called Plan A, is the best solution for Greece, for the euro zone and also for creditors and holders.

Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection.

Using no control and using humor will build a relationship and make a dent to where the client puts the counselor in their quality world and then begins to relate and seek out the counselor. Effective therapy begins with the acceptance of the therapist into the client's quality world.

Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.

The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.

The thing that helped me come to terms with performing was an anxiety, a desperation for acceptance. There was never enough positive motivation in my life.

Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.

Everybody has many people inside of them; I think we tend to present the one we feel is most appropriate at first, in order to gain acceptance or achieve what we want. It gets really interesting when this technique fails, and other levels are revealed.

My capacity as a monk was to passionately believe utter nonsense, and when you're an actor you have to do the same thing. Also, Christianity used to have a lot to do with self-loathing and an acceptance of criticism and things like that which is terribly important for actors.

You're going to have more rejection than acceptance.

One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.

We are neurologically hardwired to seek out people like ourselves. We start forming cliques as soon as we're old enough to know what acceptance feels like. We bond together based on anything that we can - music preference, race, gender, the block that we grew up on.

Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11, 2001, and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the public's whipsawing stages of acceptance.

Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.

Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept.

There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.

I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.

Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy.

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance.

The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.

PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.

Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes.

I'm from the Midwest, and I loved my family. I had a very good time as a child, but I was also - I have a theory about Jews growing up in the Midwest, that there is an ultimately sort of wonderful avoidance of a lot of things, and a great acceptance of whatever is happening.

I've had a very good career and I'm grateful that the public has had some level of acceptance and appreciation of my work.

There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.

Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.

Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show.

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.

Getting older is a struggle. I always feel that just under the surface of acceptance and enjoyment of the ageing process is a terrible hysteria just waiting to burst out.

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

That has been my entire life story. Running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is underestimated. The acceptance of certain realities doesn’t preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.

I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves.

I am a bit of a fundamentalist when it comes to black women's hair. Hair is hair - yet also about larger questions: self-acceptance , insecurity and what the world tells you is beautiful. For many black women, the idea of wearing their hair naturally is unbearable.

The way they had the room that I was in set up, there was some sort of sound deadening platform that I had to stand on in order to get close enough to the microphone.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall.

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better.

We may not always agree with every one of our neighbors. That's life. And it's part of living in such a diverse and dense city. But we also recognize that part of being a New Yorker is living with your neighbors in mutual respect and tolerance. It was exactly that spirit of openness and acceptance that was attacked on 9/11, 2001.

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance.

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

I think it's important to remember that Christianity was based in love and tolerance and forgiveness and acceptance.

The tenacious character I've possessed since I was a small child propelled me to successfully meet this challenge, and I was able to safely gain acceptance to the university of my choice.

The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.

I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange.

For the Left, tolerance does not mean tolerance. It means first, acceptance. And second, celebration. That is totalitarianism: You not only have to live with what you may differ with, dear citizen, you have to celebrate it or pay a steep price.

I found that laughter was a form of acceptance, and I really enjoyed that and I just - I crave it.

Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance.

Upon receiving my notification of acceptance to the university, my parents noticed that they were obliged to submit to the university, among other things, a copy of my official family register. After much mental anguish, they decided to inform me of the secret of my birth.

In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.

I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

I am sure there will come a time when we are going to use AMD. The products have been getting better. The acceptance is getting better. But we have not been suffering as a company for either growth or profitability because we haven't had AMD.

Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway.

I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.

When it's open and honest, that's when the real nature of who you are as a vocalist or as a performer, all of that stuff can finally start to become what it's supposed to be. Like a settling into yourself. It's not even a musical thing, it's a whole mindset, a whole acceptance of who you were supposed to be. Life sounds good

My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind - like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.

If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with the loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.

Panic causes tunnel vision. Calm acceptance of danger allows us to more easily assess the situation and see the options.

If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

There just seems to be more acceptance now of... other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.

You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.

That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

For me, art really starts with acceptance, self trust. Wherever you come to with art, its perfect. You dont have to come with anything. What you bring to something is the art. Thats where its found. Its found within you.

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.