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Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein

Life, Yourself, Silence

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
John F. Kennedy

Future, Past, Blame

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Change, God, Courage

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
Michael Jordan

Change, Others, Negative

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Hope, Lose, Infinite

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love, Peace, Truth

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
Maya Angelou

Love, Work, Great

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbell

Life, Waiting, Planned

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
Michael Jordan

Failure, Trying, Everyone

The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.
Ralph Marston

Faith, Patience, Yourself

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
Albert Einstein

Once, Beyond, Limits

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Best, Courage, Important

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
John Lennon

Love, After, Keep

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.
Audrey Hepburn

Life, Time, Special

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
Marcus Aurelius

Love, Heart, Together

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.
Winston Churchill

Good, Power, Today

The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept.
George Carlin

Talk, Reason, Whose

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
Voltaire

Life, Alone, Game

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Change, Nothing, Mean

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
Mahatma Gandhi

Within, Voice, Tyrant

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.
Albert Camus

Far, Himself, Hand

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.
Denis Waitley

Life, Two, Choices

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Often, Idea, Voice

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
Sigmund Freud

Pain, Reality, Enjoy

If you can accept losing, you can't win.
Vince Lombardi

Friends accept you the way you are.
Marilyn Monroe

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'
Marilyn Monroe

Women, Men, Black

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.
Marilyn Monroe

Change, Women, Start

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
Robert Frost

Life, Whatever, Against

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.
Henry A. Kissinger

Yourself, End, Mean

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