Acceptance Quotes
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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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Meditation means simple acceptance.
Akong Rinpoche
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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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The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.
Will Durant
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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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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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I think there's a lot more appreciation and maturity and acceptance of everyone's flaws.
Chad Urmston
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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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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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It is in our acceptance of what is given that God gives Himself.
Elisabeth Elliot
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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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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
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I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.
Tina Turner Ike & Tina Turner
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Acceptance says, True, this is my situation at the moment. I'll look unblinkingly at the reality of it. But I'll also open my hands to accept willingly whatever a loving Father sends me.
Catherine Marshall
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All crises begin with the blurring of a paradigm and the consequent loosening of the rules for normal research. .. Or finally, the case that will most concern us here, a crisis may end with the emergence of a new candidate for paradigm and with the ensuing battle over its acceptance.
Thomas Kuhn
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Proof, being the highest level of reproduction activity, has an important interiorization aspect: as Yuri Manin stresses in his book Provable and Unprovable, a proof becomes such only after it is accepted (as the result of a highly rigorous process) ... Manin describes the act of acceptance as a social act; however, the importance of its personal, psychological component can hardly be overestimated.
Alexandre Borovik
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Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.
Norman Cousins
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The greatest satisfaction comes not from chasing pleasure and avoiding pain, but from the radical acceptance of life as it is, without fighting and clinging to passing desires.
Noah Levine
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Respect depicts acceptance while disrespect is rejection.
Fawad Afzal Khan
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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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The complementary movement towards divine love is growth in humility which is the acceptence of the reality about ourselves, our own weakness and limitations.
Thomas Keating
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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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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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Acceptance is what we wish for ourselves and often deny others.
Susan L. Taylor