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My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people.
John Henrik Clarke

God, Spiritual, Become

I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.
Abdul Kalam

Change, Willing

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.
Rosalynn Carter

Best, Failure, Win

Mr. Chairman, delegates. I accept your nomination for President of the United States of America. I do so with humility, deeply moved by the trust you have placed in me. It is a great honor. It is an even greater responsibility.
Mitt Romney

Trust, Great, Humility

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.
Albert Schweitzer

Good, Few, Anyone

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
Logan P. Smith

Great, Give, Advice

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
Peter Drucker

Change, Learning, Learn

So I had to be careful. I recognized the responsibility that, whether I liked it or not, I had to accept whatever the obligation was. That was to behave in a manner, to carry myself in such a professional way, as if there ever is a reflection, it's a positive one.
Sidney Poitier

Positive, Whatever, Reflection

People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
Andy Rooney

Truth, Facts, Agree

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
Henry Ward Beecher

Life, God, Choice

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
Thomas Sowell

Force, Prepared, Defend

Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
W. H. Auden

Life, May, Ignore

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Rene Descartes

True, Single, Doubt

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.
Albert Schweitzer

Spiritual, Road, Precious

Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.
Pope John Paul II

Freedom, Today, True

I accept reality and dare not question it.
Walt Whitman

Reality, Question, Dare

You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.
Teri Garr

Yourself, Find, Goals

You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.
Denis Waitley

Actions, Credit

I don't need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation.
Billy Graham

Generation, Hands, Willing

Accept the fact that we have to treat almost anybody as a volunteer.
Peter Drucker

Treat, Fact, Almost

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.
Joyce Brothers

Love, Hurt, Simple

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
Henry Miller

Him, Destiny, Matter

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.
Maxwell Maltz

Yourself, Free, Move

It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.
Bill Watterson

Reality, Denial, Selective

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
James Dean

Life, Fact, Actor

When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept constructive criticism. Without one-hundred percent dedication, you won't be able to do this.
Willie Mays

Work, Hard, Able

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
Margaret Mead

Good, Evil, May

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.
John W. Gardner

Free, Creative, Social

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
James A. Baldwin

Power, Black, White

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