Acceptance Quotes
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Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.
William Shatner
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Mothers have always held such symbolic weight in determining a person's worth. Your mother tongue, your motherland, your mother's values - these things can qualify or disqualify you from attaining myriad American dreams: love, fluency, citizenship, legitimacy, acceptance, success, freedom.
Jenny Zhang
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I bow to my opponent in praise and thanks. After the fight is a time for humility, acceptance and analysis, no matter the result.
Georges St-Pierre
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The solution to violence in America is the acceptance of reality.
Gavin de Becker
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If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.
Thomas à Kempis
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You think about people like Elvis, Kurt Cobain, or the Beatles, who grew up without privilege and needed a certain validation through peoples' acceptance, or admiration from their peers. And money is part of that, but it always comes too late.
Bradford Cox
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Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters.
Seth Godin
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I don't think of rejection as rejection, just a bad fit. Then I seek out other avenues of acceptance.
Emily Raboteau
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Before we can change anything in our life, we have to recognize that this is the way it is meant to be right now. For me, acceptance has become what I call the long sigh of the soul. It's the closed eyes in prayer, perhaps even the quiet tears. It's "all right," as in "All right, You lead, I'll follow." And it's "all right" as in "Everything is going to turn out all right." This is simply part of the journey.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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I used to love people for what they could be. I thought love was how hard you tried and how much you sacrificed and suffered. That is not love. Acceptance is.
Michael Learned
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Acceptance is what we wish for ourselves and often deny others.
Susan L. Taylor
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A moment of something between acceptance and resignation of one's smallness in the world.
Stephen Dunn
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The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.
Will Durant
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I don't know anything about god except that it's not me. So, somewhere between that acceptance and doing my homework and being competitive and having ambition and loving my job and observing and reflecting my society, that's where I find the purpose. Because man needs purpose.
Tom Hardy
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It is the acceptance of death that has finally allowed me to choose life.
Elizabeth Lesser
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Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.
Norman Cousins
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I am that which I am, and I am willing to allow all others to be that which they are.
Esther Hicks
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When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Meditation means simple acceptance.
Akong Rinpoche
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When someone else's safety and acceptance in society is on the line, your personal discomfort comes in a very distant second.
Courtney Milan
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I've learned to take time for myself and to treat myself with a great deal of love and respect, because I like me.. I think I'm kind of cool.
Whoopi Goldberg
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I think there's a lot more appreciation and maturity and acceptance of everyone's flaws.
Chad Urmston
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There is a growing acceptance and interest in publicly funded school choice as a catalyst for education reform in general and a way to empower parents to be education reformers.
John T. Walton
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In the 1980s a small group of individuals became concerned about the Earth's temperature and what it might do in the future. I hesitate to call them scientists because they have abandoned their scientific principals by which their guess about temperature increases and the cause could achieve scientific acceptance or rejection.
Walter Cunningham