Best 1155 quotes in «accepting quotes» category

the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.

the most important thing one can do for children is not accept the limitations they are so willing to impose on themselves.

The most outrageous thing we can do in this world is to accept what happens and fly with it.

The narrow mind rejects; wisdom accepts.

Then I overdosed at 28, at which point I began to accept the bipolar diagnosis.

The older I get, the more I accept and appreciate myself.

The only reason we die, is because we accept death as an inevitability.

The only thing you can do is prepare the best you can and then just accept... stuff happens.

The only way for the market to accept this reality is if fares are advanced slowly and cautiously, and the very low fares do still appear from time-to-time in the market to allow those who will not travel without them to have access to our service.

The original intent of laws was to get the masses of people to accept the limitations superimposed upon them as being the result of their own misbehavior.

The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.

[T]he outcry against killing women, if you accept killing at all, is sheer sentimentality.:; Why is it worse to kill a woman than a man?

The person I loved...was the 'past' you. If I couldn't accept that 'past' you, then there won't be time in the future to do so.

The poetry when I was a kid felt like something that I could control, and whether it failed or not, whether it was good or not, was totally on me and I could accept that. It was entirely mine.

The principle question before us is not, do we comprehend the atonement, but, do we accept it.

The president has undermined trust. No longer will the members of Congress be entitled to accept his veracity. Caveat emptor has become the word. Every member of Congress is on his or her own to determine the truth.

The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness.

The politics is far harder than the science. And even if we accept the science we have a big issue of how to deal with it.

The professional, though he accepts money, does his work out of love. He has to love it. Otherwise he wouldn’t devote his life to it of his own free will.

There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.

The Purusha should assume at all times the attitude of a giver of sanction while rejecting the lower movements and accepting only truth-movements.

The rank and file are not philosophers, they are not educated to think for themselves, but simply to accept, unquestioned, whatever comes.

There are people whose external reality is generous because it is transparent, because you can read everything, accept everything, understand everything about them: people who carry their own sun with them.

The quest for stability or homeostasis is silly. We should accept that we live on an incredibly dynamic planet in a rapidly changing environment, and do our best to have the most amazing experiences we can.

There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.

The reason the United States is not aging rapidly in terms of its demographics is because we accept people as newcomers to this society in numbers that far surpass any of our major peers or rivals.

There comes a point at which a law can be so unjust it is necessary openly, lovingly and with a willingness to accept the consequences to refuse to comply with a greatly unjust law.

There have been a lot of changes [in the fashion industry], of course. You just have to accept it and be strong.

The refusal of the British and Russian peoples to accept what appeared to be inevitable defeat was the great factor in the salvage of our civilization.

There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning its larger implications.

There is always some regret when we accept that love has moved away from us

There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.

There is no need to accept the standards of the world at large.

There is no compulsion in Islam. You convert "voluntarily". But you are free not to convert by accepting subjugation, humiliation, discrimination and constant harassment. What can be more democratic?

There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.

There is so much love in us all, but often we are too shy to express our love, and keep it bottled up inside us. We must learn to love, to love until it hurts, and we will know how to accept love.

There is nothing so wrong as accepting a thing merely because men who have done things say it should be so.

There's no freedom like the freedom that comes from accepting yourself.

There's no alternative to being yourself. Accept it, honour it, value it - and get on with it.

There was no such thing as defeat if you didn't accept it.

There was a time, when I blamed my companion if his religion did not resemble mine. Now, however, my heart accepts every form....Love alone is my religion.

There's something very full in knowing that your partner accepts you as is.

The sooner you accept the fact that you will have both successes and failures, the easier it will be to get your business and personal life headed in the right direction.

There will always be people who will accept you for what you are!

The rhetoric of theory is always in a bind. It pronounces ideas and denounces failures to accept or grasp them while insisting that there are no grounds either for accepting or grasping ideas.

These days she simply did the best job she could, accepting the good with the bad.

These things...they are who you are. They brought you here. To this day. You didn't give me a chance to understand that ever the unattractive parts of you, the messy parts, were something I could accept.

There will come a point in everyone's life , however, where only intuition can make the leap ahead, without ever knowing precisely how. One can never know why but one must accept intuition as a fact.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

The secret of awakening is to unconditionally accept this moment as it is.