Best 1155 quotes in «accepting quotes» category

People should decide what success means for them, and not be distracted by accepting others' definitions of success.

Personal style is accepting who you are.

Peter Minuet, who said to the Indians in modern-day Manhattan, Will you accept a check from a Puerto Rican bank? Never got a dinner!

Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true.

Please accept a promise from me in his name that I will always live in the religion in which he died.

Please accept this humble fax. My love for you is without wax.

Politics is a contact sport - a question of accepting an elbow or two.

... possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.

President Barack Obama started by accepting the military's counterinsurgency, but came out of Afghanistan having decided that counterinsurgency actually doesn't work.

Positive self-esteem is the quality of simply saying thank you and accepting any value that is attributed to you by others.

Prejudice exists and probably will continue to `but we have tried to make progress and we are making progress. We are not going to accept the status quo.'

Pretending you know what you're doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you're doing even if you don't and do it.

Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn't be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet.

Pritkin kissed like he did everything else, straightforward, accepting no prisoners and with an intensity that left me breathless. It was hot and hard and desperate, like he was starving for it, and I opened my mouth and took it, because, God.

[Refugees] cannot be stopped, but they can and must be managed better, more humanely, protecting migrants' human rights whilst accepting states' rights to control their borders.

Refuse to accept the narrative of history laid down by presidents, prime ministers, generals and journalists.

Regardless of the source of our pain, we must accept that God knows, God loves, and God is at work.

Resolved, never to count that a prayer, nor to let that pass as a prayer, nor that as a petition of a prayer, which is so made, that I cannot hope that God will answer it; nor that as a confession, which I cannot hope God will accept.

Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up.

Reverence is simply the experience of accepting that all Life is, in and of itself, of value.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.

Reyna sent me to get Percy," Frank said. "Did Octavian accept you?" "Yeah," Percy said. "He slaughtered my panda.

Rules and particular inferences alike are justified by being brought into agreement with each other. A rule is amended if it yields an inference we are unwilling to accept; an inference is rejected if it violates a rule we are unwilling to amend.

Science is at no moment quite right, but it is seldom quite wrong, and has, as a rule, a better chance of being right than the theories of the unscientific. It is, therefore, rational to accept it hypothetically.

Russians, in the knowledge of inexhaustible supplies of manpower, are accustomed to accepting gigantic fatalities with comparative calm.

Science is a method, not a religion, yet it can be just as close-minded. Open minds here Claire. Always open minds. Question everything, accept nothing as fact until you prove it for yourself.

Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.

Science can proceed only if the scientist adopts an essentially theological worldview. ..even the most atheistic scientist accepts as an act of faith the existence of a law-like order in nature that is at least in part comprehensible to us.

SEEK AND YOU WILL FIND. DON'T BE WILLING TO ACCEPT AN ORDINARY LIFE.

Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.

She refused to accept the simple truism that the better you were, the bigger threat you were to those at the top.

She has the gift of accepting her life.

Silence - not dissent - is the one answer that leaders should refuse to accept.

She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules; Charms by accepting, by submitting, sways, Yet has her humor most, when she obeys.

Simply making myself aware of others has remarkably improved my social life. People accept me much faster now that I ignore them less.

Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power -- power sufficient to interfere with property.

Since my first novel was rescued from a slush pile, it makes me sad that most publishing houses no longer accept unsolicited manuscripts. Nor are many willing to take chances on novels that are not deemed immediately "marketable.

So after a while, if people won't accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.

Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.

Some people change. Most people don't. Accepting this makes it much harder for them to disappoint you.

Some say the word 'pop' is a derogatory word to say 'not important' - I do not accept that. If the word 'classic' is the word to say 'boring,' I do not accept. There is good and bad music.

Some things are strange to me, and some things are odd. But I don't condemn. If you can accept me, I can accept you.

Some of us do not accept the Establishment myth that bad laws must be obeyed.

Sometimes it's hard to accept one's inner weirdo.

Strong faith in the Savior is submissively accepting of His will and timing in our lives, even if the outcome is not what we hoped for or wanted.

Sometimes you have to accept you can't win all the time.

Stripping away my ego and accepting my truth even if it's not who I want to see. Makes me want to be better when it's exposed. It's very vulnerable and exhilarating.

Sometimes our ability to accept what we can't change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.

Sooner or later, we must all accept the fact that in a relationship, the only person you are dealing with is yourself.

Success is the process of not accepting failure.