Accepting Quotes

• Silently hear everyone. Accept what is good. Reject and forget what is not. This is intelligent living.

  

  Chinmayananda Saraswati
  • Life
  • Forget
  • Intelligent

• Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the gift, know power, accept, and need not mention it. Why speak of time when you are Time, and shape the universal moments, as they pass, into warmth and action?

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Action
  • Moments
  • Speak

• I don't accept armed struggle. Maybe it was the way in the '50s and '60s, but we want a democratic revolution.

  

  Evo Morales
  • Struggle
  • Revolution
  • Democratic

• You can get away with breaking all of the other rules at least once in a while, but you can't get away with breaking this one. Readers will accept almost anything from you if you don't make them feel they have wasted their time and money. Remember, you can bore readers in a lot of different ways. It doesn't necessarily take a dearth of action; too much action can get you the same result. Everything in writing, like in life, requires balance.

  

  Terry Brooks
  • Different
  • Remember
  • Action

• Find out who you really are, then accept who you are. Fight for your life every day to be who you are.

  

  Ari Up
  • Fighting
  • Accepting

• We're all fools," said Clemens, "all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool today. I've learned my lesson. I was a fool yesterday but not this morning. Then tomorrow we find out that, yes, we were a fool today too. I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • World
  • Different
  • Today

• Sometimes you have to accept that a guy played better on the day than you.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Guy
  • Sometimes
  • Accepting

• As an actor you accept that you have to publicise what you do, but as for the whole personal life thing that people sometimes choose, no, that's not for me.

  

  Michelle Fairley
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Personal

• When we accept the fact that we can't do everything, we are more willing to ask for and accept help when we do anything.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Helping
  • Facts
  • Asks

• Say what you want before the fight but when it's done, you accept the result.

  

  Chael Sonnen
  • Fighting
  • Results
  • Accepting

• There was a point in my 40s when I went into the bathroom with a bottle of wine, locked the door, and said, 'I'm not coming out until I can totally accept the way that I look right now.'

  

  Sharon Stone
  • Wine
  • Bottles
  • Bathroom

• As the rain falls and the sun shines, they grow, grow, grow; minds so open, they go through life aware and accepting, seeing light where there's dark, seeing possibility in dead ends, tasting victory as others spit out failure, questioning where others accept. Just a little less jaded, a little less cynical.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Dark
  • Accepting
  • Possibility

• One of the biggest things I've done is learn how to love myself, flaws and all. Even the things I don't like about myself, I accept. People have made fun of me and made me self-conscious about talking so softly, for example, but I accept that as who I am and I'm not changing it for anybody. I'm at peace with who I am now, and once you've achieved that, all the other stuff disappears.

  

  Ricky Williams
  • People
  • Fun
  • Disappear

• A leader or mentor gives credit to others when things go right, and accepts the blame when things go wrong.

  

  Bill Courtney
  • Leader
  • Blame
  • Credit

• Be the Inner Spirit that is you. And relish in the creative moment. But don't try to hold to anything that has been created in the moment - including your body. And when you find that place, there is peace beyond description. Because then you accept that you are the eternal being that you are.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Trying
  • Moments
  • Spirit

• He tried to tell me week after week to accept things as they were and move on with my life. But if there was one man who had put his life on hold to wait for something or someone, it was him.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Men
  • Accepting

• Then I overdosed at 28, at which point I began to accept the bipolar diagnosis.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Accepting
  • Bipolar

• How quickly one accepts the incredible if only one sees it enough.

  

  Richard Matheson
  • Accepting
  • Incredibles

• I now accept that it is looking increasingly likely that Tiger Woods is, in fact, straight.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Accepting
  • Tigers

• 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
  • Father
  • Reality
  • Moments

• So my first book I had no experience having written a book, but each book is a little snapshot of who you are at that moment, accrued all through time, so I accept that.

  

  Chang-Rae Lee
  • Book
  • Moments
  • Accepting

• I'm English. I can't accept happiness that easily. There's got to be a trick in there somewhere.

  

  David Bowie
  • Accepting
  • Tricks

• Failure is not tied to money; it is a mindset. Failure is when we accept the lot we are given.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Accepting
  • Mindset

• It's being willing to walk away that gives you strength and power - if you're willing to accept the consequences of doing what you want to do.

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • Giving
  • Strength
  • Accepting

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