Best 1155 quotes in «accepting quotes» category

Those who have something to say accept the fact that that's lonely. One already knows that there will be adversaries.

Thousands of children are killed by handguns in the United States each year. What is that about? What are we doing? We accept that? And we accept the presence of these weapons that are in silos and on submarines and airplanes? If any madman gets hold of them - and certainly there are madmen out there who will figure out how to get hold of them, they always have - what are we even making such things for?

Though what we accept be true, it is a prejudice unless we ourselves have considered and understood why and how it is true.

To accept anything on trust, to preclude critical application and development, is a grievous sin.

To accept Naturalism is to reject such entities as Cartesian minds, private visual and tactual spaces, angelic beings and God.

To accept the principal that "all power proceeds from the barrel of a gun" is to accept a society which will be dominated by those with the biggest guns.

To accept the truth of who you really are takes nothing short of realization. You have to see the diamond for yourself.

To accept on faith is the basic requirement for getting on with life.

To a woman who complained about her destiny the Master said, "It is you who make your destiny." "But surely I am not responsible for being born a woman?" "Being born a woman isn't destiny. That is fate. Destiny is how you accept your womanhood and what you make of it.

To be a man requires that you accept everything life has to give you, beginning with your name.

To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority.

To be mortal is the most basic human experience, and yet man has never been able to accept it, grasp it, and behave accordingly. Man doesn't know how to be mortal. And when he dies, he doesn't even know how to be dead.

To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.

To fulfill your mission will require that you abandon your agenda and accept God’s agenda for your life.

To sense which gifts to accept which to leave behind is our path to discovering freedom.

Tradition, long conditioned thinking, can bring about a fixation, a concept that one readily accepts, perhaps not with a great deal of thought.

Treat praise like criticism: refuse to accept either.

Treat gain and loss the same.' Don't be Intimidated. Don't make a Big Deal of anything - just accept things as they come to you.

True Budo is to accept the spirit of the universe, keep the peace of the world, correctly produce, protect and cultivate all beings in nature.

True generosity means accepting ingratitude.

True love is about being able to accept raw emotions, no matter how difficult.

True meaning in life comes through understanding your own nature and learning to accept all aspects of yourself.

Trust is accepting what God sends into your life whether you understand it or not.

Truly speaking, it is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul. What he announces, I must find true in me, or reject; and on his word, or as his second, be he who he may, I can accept nothing.

Turning 50 changed me and I'm far more accepting of myself. I'm not thin, but I am a size 10. I go in at the middle and very much out at the bottom and top. And now I think, 'Well, that's how I am.

Until you are willing to accept total and complete responsibility for every aspect of your life, your life will keep sending you experiences designed to get your attention.

Unwillingness to accept God's 'way of escape' from temptation frightens me - what a rebel yet resides within.

Until we accept and approve of ourselves, no amount of approval from others will keep us permanently secure.

Until you accept responsibility for your life, someone else runs your life.

Usually when we hear or read something new, we just compare it to our own ideas. If it is the same, we accept it and say that it is correct. If it is not, we say it is incorrect. In either case, we learn nothing.

Venezuela is a free country, and we will not be blackmailed by anyone. We will not accept being told what to do over Iran; we will not accept being anyone's colony.

Very few people ever bother to find out what other people really think. They are willing to accept whatever they are told about anyone sufficiently distant.

Thought that accepts reality as given is no thought at all.

To accept a favor from a friend is to confer one.

To accept an unorthodoxy is always to inherit unresolved contradictions

To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.

To accept whatever comes, regardless of the consequences, is to be unafraid.

To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom. -Beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere

To accept capitalism and Free Enterprise as articles of faith without agreeing that we must be free to consider whether what is offered is free and freeing is itself enslavement.

To accept duality is to earn identity.

To become a stoic is to endorse the truthfulness of its world view and accept its prescription for how you ought to live, not just to like how it makes you feel.

To be fully human, fully myself, To accept all that I am, all that you envision, This is my prayer. Walk with me out to the rim of life, Beyond security. Take me to the exquisite edge of courage And release me to become.

To have peace with this peculiar life; to accept what we do not understand; to wait calmly for what awaits us, you have to be wiser than I am.

To live a disciplined life, and to accept the result of that discipline as the will of God - that is the mark of a man.

To live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence.

We accept, without sufficient consideration, a system that breeds inefficiencies and actually encourages the creation of shortages.

To refuse to accept the call of your best life is to insult the force that created you.

Was insanity really easier to accept than unconsciousness?

We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.

We accept that sometimes in difficult circumstances, difficult things happen.