Best 1155 quotes in «accepting quotes» category

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

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.

The slow, the never ending approach to truth consists in perpetually forming and testing hypotheses, accepting those at which at the time seem to fit the facts and rejecting the others.

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.

The sound is the key; audiences will accept visual discontinuity much more easily than they'll accept jumps in the sound. If the track makes sense, you can do almost anything visually.

The surest test if a person be sane, is if she accepts life whole, as it is.

The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

The tolerance of the skeptic… accepts the most diverse and indeed the most contradictory opinions, and keeps all his suspicions for the “dogmatist.”

The truth about your own life is not always easy to accept, and sometimes hasn't even occurred to you.

The users are not going to be in the position of accepting what's been collected; they're going to be in the position of being able to demand collection.

The truth was, he now belonged only to my past, and it was time I begin to accept it, as much as it hurt to do so.

The worst guilt is to accept an undeserved guilt — and that is what you have been doing all your life.

The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.

The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them.

This search for perfection - which is a search for divinity - is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way it is.

Thinkers do not accept the inevitable; they turn their efforts toward changing it.

This future is ours to embrace. Whether we, the established generations, choose to accept that is in our court.

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?

Those [old] days are gone... accept the reality and do it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

True generosity means accepting ingratitude.

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