QuoteProject

Topic

Quotes on Acceptance

371 quotes

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
Francis BaconRead
Being free brings a lightness, a carefree surrender to all that is happening around you, and, above all, an acceptance of reality.
Deepak ChopraRead
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Mark TwainRead
Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me!
Lady GagaRead
If you do not specify and confront real issues, what you say will surely obscure them. If you do not embody controversy, what you say will be an acceptance of the drift to the coming human hell.
C. Wright MillsRead
Be calm. God awaits you at the door.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezRead
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 EllisRead
The end of a melody is not its goal; but nonetheless, if the melody had not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.
Friedrich NietzscheRead
With the eventual acceptance of Darwin's theory we reach a modern understanding of nature, one which has since then changed in detail rather than in fundamentals. Only those who prefer religious faith to beliefs based on reasoning and evidence can still maintain that the human species is the special darling of the entire universe, or that other animals were created to provide us with food, or that we have divine authority over them, and divine permission to kill them.
Peter SingerRead
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Harvey FiersteinRead
Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.
Bruce SpringsteenRead
Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.
VoltaireRead
I may say that B-love, in a profound but testable sense, creates the partner. It gives him a self-image, it gives him self- acceptance, a feeling of love-worthiness, all of which permit him to grow. It is a real question whether the full development of the human being is possible without it.
Abraham MaslowRead
Strive for perfection in everything. Take the best that exists and make it better. If it doesn't exist, create it. Accept nothing nearly right or good enough
Henry RoyceRead
I've learned to take time for myself and to treat myself with a great deal of love and respect, because I like me.. I think I'm kind of cool.
Whoopi GoldbergRead
Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Harvey FiersteinRead
Acceptance is so important because we cannot go through this journey alone. I am fortunate to have a very supportive family, but not all trans kids are so lucky. I recommend seeking out a friend or an adult who you think will accept you and telling them how you feel.
Jazz JenningsRead
The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
Maya AngelouRead
We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.
Henry RollinsRead
Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
Robert FrostRead
When one is pretending the entire body revolts.
Anais NinRead

A little wisdom, now and then

Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.