Best 1155 quotes in «accepting quotes» category

We do not accept a religion because it offers us certain rewards. The only thing that a religion can offer us is to be just what it, in itself, is: a greater meaning in ourselves, in our lives, and in our grasp of the nature of things...a religion exists for us only if, like a piece of poetry, it carries us away. It is not in any sense a 'hypothesis.

We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have-nots. We must always be a nation of haves and soon-to-haves.

We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.

We don't see the banality, but we accept banality. We accept it as inevitable, and it's not.

We feel bound to the Christian image of humanity - that is what defines us. Those who do not accept this are in the wrong place here.

We found in 'The Matrix' that people were willing to accept something more. It was a smarter film.

We gain power in our refusal to accept less than we deserve.

We have a great responsibility. Whatever we make will become the truth, the visual reality that a generation will accept.

We haven't seen a situation where you have the FBI director talk about an investigation side by side with the attorney general who confirms, yes, I accept the recommendation of the FBI director.

We have to accept as a society that games are not escapist. They really do change us.

We have to accept that some very toxic stuff was marbled into the Trump phenomenon.

We hope for the best, if elections are conducted like this all over South Africa we can indeed say we welcome any results and accept them.

We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully.

We live and work in boxes. People don't even notice that. Most of what's around us is banal. We live with it. We accept it as inevitable. People say, "This is the world the way it is, and don't bother me.

Well, by accepting that sex is a physical manifestation of God, and that is not a sin-it is a blessing.

Well, I guess I am about the livest dead man you ever saw; although I was once asked to accept a coffin.

We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions.

We must accept all of Gods will for us, not just those portions that happen to appeal and bring instant gratification and pleasure to us.

We must accept human error as inevitable - and design around that fact.

We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God's creative pulse itself.

We must accept our reality as vastly as we possibly can; everything, even the unprecedented, must be possible within it.

We only begin to live life when we learn to accept it on its own terms.

We need to take a step back, and realize that not everything we encounter is true. You don't want to be gullibly accepting everything as true, but you don't want to be cynically rejecting everything as false. You want to take your time to evaluate the information.

We never know our good or bad as we loose our judgement living with them.worst part is we don't accept who we are & hence remain confused for the rest of our life.

We need conservatives that can accept gays, and then we need hippies that can shave and bathe.

We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring question a woman can ask is, 'What do I want?'

We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.

We’re born alone and we die alone, I accept that. But why, God, do we have to be alone in the middle?

... we're moving into an era when we will define ourselves more by the technologies we refuse than the ones we accept.

We're not here to get over our humanness, but rather to accept and make peace with it... and to remember our Divine nature.

We think of happiness as something we can take. But usually it comes from being content with what we have, and accepting ourselves.

We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.

We're turning into the society that is accepting the force-feed. I don't quite understand why we're going for the things we're going for. There's no process of elimination anymore in music. They have these grooming schools, these things, and they're turning out these clones, and the music is sounding so refined that it's not even interesting.

We should accept diversity in culture and tradition and coexist peacefully.

We shouldn't demonize the woman who wears high heels and we shouldn't demonize the woman who doesn't wear high heels. We should accept all forms of comportment.

We've gone all the way from foolishly accepting authority to foolishly rejecting all authority.

What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

We will not accept any conditions from the U.S.

We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada.

What are you accepting that would not be a part of your ideal day?

We walk through so many myths of each other and ourselves; we are so thankful when someone sees us for who we are and accepts us.

We will have to abandon the philosophy of Democritus and the concept of elementary particles. We should accept instead the concept of elementary symmetries.

We willingly accept and even embrace this mind control, and probably without even knowing it.

Whatever you accept completely, you go beyond. If you fight it, you're stuck with it.

Whatever is arising in this moment, whatever condition, is part of the isness of life and therefore accepting it fully makes you an expression of the enormous power of life itself-true intelligence, which only comes when you stop obstructing the power of the present moment.

Whatever encourages people to become more interested in who they are and discovering who they are, as opposed to just accepting what people or things are saying what they are. That's fascinating to me.

Whatever we can't love or accept in another, is a mirror of something we can't love or accept in ourselves.

What happens when you accept and embrace your fear? Fear becomes your weapon.

What I really, hugely, and antagonistically dislike is the attempt to quantify the unquantifiable. And if you are a branding consultant, you have to accept that there are a lot of things you just cannot quantify.

What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.