Acceptance Quotes

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Melody Beattie

Life, Home, Gratitude

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

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Art, Someone, Done

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
Brian Tracy

Love, Greatest, Give

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.
Maya Angelou

Respect, Character, Struggle

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
William James

Step, Happened, Overcoming

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.
Paul Tournier

Life, Struggle, Nothing

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
George Orwell

Happiness, Exist

Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.
Albert Ellis

Love, Human, Person

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
William James

Step, Happened, Willing

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.
Jessica Lange

Tolerance, Lessons

Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.
Michael J. Fox

Mean, Through, Means

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.
George McGovern

Love, Patriotism, Deep

The basic problem with my love relationships with women is that my standards are so high - and they apply equally to both of us. I seek full-blast mutual intensity, fully fledged mutual acceptance, full-blown mutual flourishing, and fully felt peace and joy with each other. This requires a level of physical attraction, personal adoration, and moral admiration that is hard to find.
Cornel West

Love, Peace, Women

I don't care who you are. When you sit down to write the first page of your screenplay, in your head, you're also writing your Oscar acceptance speech.
Nora Ephron

Care, Writing, Down

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.
Michael J. Fox

Happiness, Direct, Grows

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
Nathaniel Branden

Change, Step, Second

After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.
Mason Cooley

Mean, Silence, May

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
Anatole France

Personal, Against, High

Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.
Miyamoto Musashi

Death, Warrior, Speaking

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
Martha Graham

Age, Maturity, Glory

At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.
Paul Tournier

Heart, Sense, Lovable

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
Fernando Pessoa

Stupidity, Idea, General

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
E. B. White

Age, Power, Violence

In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.
Bryant H. McGill

America, Opinion, Themselves

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.
Lady Gaga

Love, Tolerance, Community

I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.
Chris Christie

Wisdom, Country, Become

One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.
Morris West

Pain, Doubt, Living

Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.
Bruce Springsteen

Music, Tolerance, Forefront

Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.
William Shatner

Hurt, Winning, Writing

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