Acceptance famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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My belief has come about in large measure because of the lives and examples of people I have known - not the famous, not saints, but friends and relations who have lived, and faced death, in the light of the Resurrection story, or in the quiet acceptance that they have a future after they die.
-- A. N. Wilson -
Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins is an essential covenant to make with the Lord. Faith and repentance precede this ordinance. Confirmation and the gift of the Holy Ghost follow baptism. Acceptance of these first principles and ordinances may obtain for us a remission of our sins and assure our salvation. In the ordinance of the sacrament, we regularly renew this and other covenants, and by complying with our part of the covenant, we receive the Spirit of the Lord to be with us.
-- A. Theodore Tuttle -
Acceptance is supposed to be a good thing - Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. Also compromise, as every couples therapist will tell you. But the cost was high - the damping of expectation, the dwindling of spirit, the resignation that comes to replace enthusiasm, the cynicism that supplants hope. The mouldering that goes unnoticed and unchecked.
-- A.S.A. Harrison -
As I took a step toward him your eyes met mine and I saw the silent pleading for forgiveness or acceptance. I wasn't sure which. All I knew was you were Sawyer's now. My best friend was gone. I envied him and hated him for the first time that day. He'd finaly won the one prize I thought was mine.
-- Abbi Glines -
I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
-- Abdul Kalam -
The story of man is the history, first, of the acceptance and imposition of restraints necessary to permit communal life; and second, of the emancipation of the individual within that system of necessary restraints.
-- Abe Fortas -
Procedure is the bone structure of a democratic society. Our scheme of law affords great latitude for dissent and opposition. It compels wide tolerance not only for their expression but also for the organization of people and forces to bring about the acceptance of the dissenter's claim....We have alternatives to violence.
-- Abe Fortas -
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The Freemen have 987 levels of membership, the first three of which are achieved merely by filling out an application. The 8th level is granted upon full acceptance into the local lodge, the 13th following Initiation, the 21st at the end of the Initiate's second week, and the 89th the first time he brings snacks.
-- Adam Rex -
Death is utterly acceptable to consciousness and life.
-- Adi Da -
Grace is God's acceptance of us. Faith is our acceptance of God accepting us.
-- Adrian Rogers -
A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.
-- Adyashanti -
Life is precious. We should not take anything for granted. Living every moment as if it was our first and last is a genuine life of gratitude, acceptance and wisdom.
-- Akiane Kramarik -
Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.
-- Alain de Botton -
Everybody should do in their lifetime, sometime, two things. One is to consider death...to observe skulls and skeletons and to wonder what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up-never. That is a most gloomy thing for contemplation; it's like manure. Just as manure fertilizes the plants and so on, so the contemplation of death and the acceptance of death is very highly generative of creating life. You'll get wonderful things out of that.
-- Alan Watts -
One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly.
-- Albert Einstein -
The attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in their long-term recovery.
-- Albert Ellis -
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.
-- Albert Ellis -
Needing leads to bleeding - to almost all inevitable suffering.
-- Albert Ellis -
Attempts to help humans eliminate all self-ratings and views self-esteem as a self-defeating concept that encourages them to make conditional evaluations of self. Instead, it teaches people unconditional self-acceptance.
-- Albert Ellis -
Nobody needs to go anywhere else. We are all, if we only knew it, already there. If I only knew who in fact I am, I should cease to behave as what I think I am; and if I stopped behaving as what I think I am, I should know who I am. What in fact I am, if only the Manichee I think I am would allow me to know it, is the reconciliation of yes and no lived out in total acceptance and the blessed experience of Not-Two. In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap.
-- Aldous Huxley -
We should clearly understand that only the voluntary and conscientious acceptance by a people of its guilt can ensure the healing of a nation. Unremitting reproaches from outside are counterproductive.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.
-- Alex Haley -
Change is possible, but it must start with self-acceptance.
-- Alexander Lowen -
Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to learn how to give, but we forget about accepting things, which can be much harder than giving.... Accepting another person's gift is allowing him to express his feelings for you.
-- Alexander McCall Smith -
Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.
-- Alexander Pope -
A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
-- Alexander the Great -
Social standing does not necessarily translate to social acceptance.
-- Alexandra Robbins -
In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the most eminent living men of science. New facts, new problems, new difficulties as they arise are accepted, solved, or removed by this theory; and its principles are illustrated by the progress and conclusions of every well established branch of human knowledge.
-- Alfred Russel Wallace -
Acceptance of race mixture was more developed in Arab culture than in Jewish culture.
-- Ali Mazrui -
Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional acceptance of the truth in the individual and unique history of our childhood.
-- Alice Miller -
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
-- Alice Walker -
Everything is already perfect. And if you can accept that everything is already perfect, the imperfection is a part of the perfection. What's to worry about?
-- Alice Walker -
Animals are being exploited in such an unbelievable way; it's not acceptable.
-- Alicia Silverstone -
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
-- Alison Krauss -
As we become more mature we will learn to master the interplay between the past and the present and not be so self-conscious of our rejection or acceptance of tradition. We will not make the mistake that both rigid modernists and conservatives make, of confusing the quality of form with the specific forms themselves.
-- Alvin Lustig -
The greatest threat to women (and by extension humanity) is the growth and acceptance of a misogynistic, authoritarian, and violent culture of militarism.
-- Amina Mama -
She had not wanted him to but had let him have his way because ever since she was a child she had generally yielded before anyone with strong willpower, especially if it was a man, not because she was naturally submissive, but because strong male willpower gave her a feeling of safety and trust, together with acceptance and a desire to give in.
-- Amos Oz -
When one is pretending, the entire body revolts.
-- Anais Nin -
What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.
-- Anais Nin -
Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
-- Anatole France -
Fixing is the illness model; acceptance is the identity model; which way any family goes reflects their assumptions and resources.
-- Andrew Solomon -
My personal opinion is that the neutral position on the mood spectrum—what I called emotional sea level—is not happiness but rather contentment and the calm acceptance that is the goal of many kinds of spiritual practice.
-- Andrew Weil -
We only enter into the full life if our faith gives thanks. Because how else do we accept His free gift of salvation if not with thanksgiving? Thanksgiving is the evidence of our acceptance of whatever He gives. Thanksgiving is the manifestation of our Yes! to His grace.
-- Ann Voskamp -
Dryness promotes the formation of flower buds...flowering is, after all, not an aesthetic contribution, but a survival mechanism.
-- Ann Zwinger -
I do think that something of the effect I have on people is to put everything on an edge where they're both infatuated with a kind of charmingness happening in the person or in the writing, and also flatly terrified by a revelation or acceptance of revelation that's almost happening, never quite totally happening.
-- Anne Carson -
What I've observed and what I've imagined - and definitely what I'm hoping - happens as you get older is that there's a mellowing, an acceptance that comes with time. I guess that I'll find out.
-- Anne Hathaway -
The problem is acceptance, which is something we're taught not to do. We're taught to improve uncomfortable situations, to change things, alleviate unpleasant feelings. But if you accept the reality that you have been given- that you are not in a productive creative period- you free yourself to begin filling up again.
-- Anne Lamott -
Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
-- Anne Lamott -
I want your innocence. I want your blind, unquestioning devotion to your father, your acceptance of who and what he is. I want you to look at me the way you look at him, knowing the worst. I want you to trust me, even when your brain tells you you shouldn't, I want you to ignore common sense and your lifelong need to protect yourself. I want you to give yourself to me, body and soul.
-- Anne Stuart -
I feel like decades ago it was either youre black, white, Asian or Hispanic, or whatever, but today we see more of an acceptance for people with multi-nationalities.
-- Annie Ilonzeh -
We face up to awful things because we can't go around them, or forget them. The sooner you say 'Yes, it happened, and there's nothing I can do about it,' the sooner you can get on with your own life. You've got children to bring up. So you've got to get over it. What we have to get over, somehow we do. Even the worst things.
-- Annie Proulx -
Non-expectation, non-acceptance because the expectation leads to resentment and depression, so I have no expectations.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.
-- Antoinette Brown Blackwell -
Man depends on God for all things: God depends on man for one. Without man's love God does not exist as God, only as creator, and love is the one thing no one, not even God himself, can command. It is a free gift or it is nothing. And it is most itself, most free, when it is offered in spite of suffering, of injustice, and of death . . . The justification of the injustice of the universe is not our blind acceptance of God's inexplicable will, nor our trust in God's love, his dark and incomprehensible love, for us, but our human love, notwithstanding anything, for him.
-- Archibald MacLeish -
The period from 2001 to 2005 was really tough. My films were not working even though there was an acceptance of a model. I was depressed but did not cry. I cry when I am happy.
-- Arjun Rampal -
True genius doesn't fulfill expectations, it shatters them.
-- Arlene Croce -
Formerly, many men dominated women within marriage. Now, despite a much wider acceptance of women as workers, men dominate women anonymously outside the marriage. Patriarchy has not disappeared; it has changed form. In the old form, women were forced to obey an overbearing husband in the privacy of an unjust marriage. In the new form, the working single mother is economically abandoned by her former husband and ignored by a patriarchal society at large.
-- Arlie Russell Hochschild -
Mindful and creative, a child who has neither a past, nor examples to follow, nor value judgments, simply lives, speaks and plays in freedom.
-- Arnaud Desjardins -
Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will- to- action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.
-- Arthur Gordon Webster -
...no formula for success [exists] except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings." "I accept life unconditionally. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.
-- Arthur Rubinstein -
To be shocked at how deeply rejection hurts is to ignore what acceptance involves. We must never allow our suffering to be compounded by suggestions that there is something odd in suffering so deeply. There would be something amiss if we didn't.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
Change is one thing. Acceptance is another.
-- Arundhati Roy -
This sounds crazy, but my goal is to be nominated for an Oscar. I was the kid who was practicing my acceptance speech when I was ten.
-- Ashley Benson -
Arriving at an acceptance of one's mortality is a process, not an epiphany.
-- Atul Gawande -
I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
-- Audre Lorde -
Acceptance, when it comes, arrives in waves: Listen with your chest. You will feel a pendulum swing within you, favoring one direction or another. And that is your answer. The answer is always inside your chest. The right choice weighs more. That's how you know. It causes you to lean in its direction.
-- Augusten Burroughs -
Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.
-- Ayaan Hirsi Ali -
Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live-that productive work is the process by which man's consciousness controls his existence, a constant process of acquiring knowledge and shaping matter to fit one's purpose, of translating an idea into physical form, of remaking the earth in the image of one's values-that all work is creative work if done by a thinking mind...
-- Ayn Rand -
Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it-that no substitute can do your thinking, as no pinch-hitter can live your life-that the vilest form of self-abasement and self-destruction is the subordination of your mind to the mind of another, the acceptance of an authority over your brain, the acceptance of his assertions as facts, his say-so as truth, his edicts as middle-man between your consciousness and your existence.
-- Ayn Rand -
It is the metaphysically given that must be accepted: it cannot be changed. It is the man-made that must never be accepted uncritically: it must be judged, then accepted or rejected and changed when necessary.
-- Ayn Rand -
Productiveness is your acceptance of morality, your recognition of the fact that you choose to live.
-- Ayn Rand -
We have but one Saviour; and that one Saviour is Jesus Christ our Lord. Nothing that we are and nothing that we can do enters in the slightest measure into the ground of our acceptance with God. Jesus did it all.
-- B. B. Warfield -
Millions of people in nearly 80 countries still live in fear of landmines and explosive remnants of war, which take an unacceptable toll on lives and limbs, and people's livelihoods
-- Ban Ki-moon -
To feel grateful is one of the most important experiences we need as humans. When we feel it, there is an acceptance of everything in our life.
-- Barbara Brennan -
What the homosexual wants, and here he is neither willing to compromise nor morally required to compromise — is acceptance of homosexuality as a way of life fully on a par with heterosexuality.
-- Barbara Gittings -
We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
-- Barbara Jordan -
Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music.
-- Barbara Sher -
Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.
-- Barbara Walters -
There is a natural opposition among men to anything they have not thought of themselves.
-- Barnes Wallis -
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
-- Baron de Montesquieu -
You're going to have more rejection than acceptance.
-- Barry Mann -
No one who is being himself is going to be approved of all the time. The whole world could love you, but if you do not love yourself, you would not even notice. The opposite is also true - the whole world could disapprove of you, but if you love yourself, you would not even notice. Accept yourself within you and the entire world becomes totally acceptable.
-- Bartholomaus -
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.
-- Baz Luhrmann -
The process begins with the individual woman’s acceptance that American women, without exception, are socialized to be racist, classist and sexist, in varying degrees, and that labeling ourselves feminists does not change the fact that we must consciously work to rid ourselves of the legacy of negative socialization.
-- Bell Hooks -
Widespread cultural acceptance of lying is a primary reason many of us will never know love
-- Bell Hooks -
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.
-- Ben Stiller -
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
A saying from the area of Chinese medicine would be appropriate to mention here: "One disease, long life; no disease, short life." In other words, those who know what's wrong with them and take care of themselves accordingly will tend to live a lot longer than those who consider themselves perfectly happy and neglect their weakness. So, in that sense at least, a Weakness of some sort can do you a big favor, if you acknowledge that it's there.
-- Benjamin Hoff -
The makers of dictionaries are dependent upon specialists for their definitions. A specialist's definition may be true or it may be erroneous. But its truth cannot be increased or its error diminished by its acceptance by the lexicographer. Each definition must stand on its own merits.
-- Benjamin Tucker -
Those who live not by law would be justified by Custom: but, as common practice is the worst teacher that ever was, so the truth and goodness of things is not to be estimated by the entertainment and acceptance they find in the world.
-- Benjamin Whichcote -
Once a new paradigm takes hold, its acceptance is extraordinarily rapid and one finds few who claim to have adhered to a discarded method.
-- Bernard Lown -
The security provided by a long-held belief system, even when poorly founded, is a strong impediment to progress. General acceptance of a practice becomes the proof of its validity, though it lacks all other merit.
-- Bernard Lown -
When you accept that you are not in charge of everything, you can begin to work with the one who really is in charge. This has been my experience; when I accepted that I was not in charge and started to work with someone else's plan, the Boss showed up. Now we are a team and I have less to be concerned about. He organizes my schedule. I just follow it, and when He is taking a day off my wife steps in.
-- Bernie Siegel -
Several of our children have married outside my faith. Would I prefer they marry within their religion? Yes, because I know that marrying outside the family faith will very likely bring them more problems-but not from me. My job is to accept them and love them, not to criticize them and make their lives more difficult.
-- Bernie Siegel -
The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.
-- Bernie Siegel -
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
-- Berthold Auerbach
