If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
John Burroughs

I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
William Tecumseh Sherman

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!
Oliver Wendell Holmes

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
R. Buckminster Fuller

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

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

I decline to accept the end of man.
William Faulkner

We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.
Carter G. Woodson

The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account.
David Ogilvy

It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye.
David Ogilvy

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
Hermann Hesse

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

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
William Faulkner

Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it.
William Faulkner

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.
Sophocles

I had to accept that I was an alcoholic, that was the main thing. I think you've got to. But I try not say that I'm an alcoholic. I prefer to say that it's a disease I've got.
Paul Gascoigne

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

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

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Paul Tillich

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
Les Brown