Accept Quotes
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Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.
Wallace Stegner
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I don't have a lot of self-confidence. I'm getting there. Before I had zero confidence, but it's one of those things you learn and accept.
Eliot Paulina Sumner
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I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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
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If we want to succeed, we have to accept risks.
Ernst Happel
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I feel no shame at being found still owning a share when the bottom of the market comes…I would go much further than that. I should say that it is from time to time the duty of a serious investor to accept the depreciation of his holdings with equanimity and without reproaching himself. … An investor…should be aiming primarily at long-period results, and should be solely judged by these.
John Maynard Keynes
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I do not rebel against my God, I simply do not accept his world.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The international community will not accept such threats to the political process.
Bernardino Leon
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I would like you to join with all of humanity to draw a line in the sand and say, No more. No more are we going to accept this.
Josette Sheeran
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I would love to do '24' until I was 60, but I don't think anybody would accept it.
Kiefer Sutherland
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I have to go away, but with regrets and with the firm intention to come back soon. I consider most sound I am an individual Gorky – and it is my individual feeling which counts for the most. Why? I do not know nor do I wish to know. I accept it as a fact, which does not need explanation.
Arshile Gorky
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If you can forgive the person you were, accept the person you are, and believe in the person you will become, you are headed for joy. So celebrate your life.
Barbara Johnson
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It is difficult to look at any newborn baby and accept that he or she will necessarily encounter pain, challenges, disappointments, and hardships in life. Yet even the Savior needed to "go forth, suffering pains and afflictions . . . of every kind" (Alma 7:11), the only difference being that Jesus, though tempted, did not sin (Hebrews 4:15; see also D&C 45:4). Even harder to comprehend, however, was how that precious Babe of Bethlehem, whose birth we celebrate each Christmas, would one day bear the weight not only of our sins but also all our infirmities.
Eric D. Huntsman
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Preaching Christianity to skeptics without first setting out the praeambula fidei preambles of faith, and then complaining when they don’t accept it, is like yelling in English at someone who only speaks Chinese, and then dismissing him as a fool when he doesn’t understand you. In both cases, while there is certainly a fool in the picture, it isn’t the listener.
Edward Feser
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You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.
Chogyam Trungpa
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You do not have to accept the hand that Fate has dealt you.
Cressida Cowell
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The Prophets accept all agony and trust it For the water has never feared the fire.
Rumi
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Yes, and even for the past...that it will turn out to have been all right for what it was. Something I can accept. Mistakes made by the self I had to be or was not able to be.
Robert Frost
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What ever the course of our lives, we should recieve them as the highest gift from the hand of God, in which equally reposed the power to do nothing whatever for us. Indeed, we should accept misfortune not only in thanks, but in infinite gratitude to Providence, which by such means detaches us from an excessive love for Earthly things and elevates our minds to the celestial and divine.
Galileo Galilei
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You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.
Nevil Shute
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There cannot be enduring peace, prosperity, equality and brotherhood in this world if our aims are so separate and divergent, if we do not accept that in the end we are people, all alike, sharing the Earth among ourselves and also with other sentient beings, all of whom have an equal role and stake in the state of this planet and its players.
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck
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All was in God's plan, and he had to accept even as he didn't understand.
Barbara Cameron
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There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
Alexandre Dumas
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Having asked God for forgiveness, accept release, then truly forgive yourself and turn your back definitely on the matter.
Norman Vincent Peale