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

Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
Denis Waitley

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

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

I'm surprised at the extent of the bigotry. But it really plays out when companies or schools take a side and prohibit the other platform at all. We Mac users should be good even when the other side is bad. We should do what we can to accept the other platforms.
Steve Wozniak

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

Europe will not accept genetically modified foods. It doesn't make any difference in the final analysis what Brussels does, what Washington does, or what the World Trade Organization does.
Jeremy Rifkin

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
Carl Rogers

I remember a time when all my fans were crying and sad and going through hell. Now, we're trying to uplift each other and accept ourselves for who we are, even if nobody else does.
Mary J. Blige

I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.
Robert Duvall

We either accept weaknesses in good people or we have to tear pages out of the Bible.
Robert Duvall

I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me.
Brad Pitt

And now let me address all of you, high and low, rich and poor, one with another, to accept of mercy and grace while it is offered to you; Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation; and will you not accept it, now it is offered unto you?
George Whitefield

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
W. Somerset Maugham

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

Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left.
Ingrid Bergman

People who don't travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.
Martin Yan

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.
David Herbert Lawrence

If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
Joan Didion