Acceptance Quotes

In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people. (Clay Aiken)
No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life. View quote
Anaïs Nin
We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than simply fight for it. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Happiness can exist only in acceptance. View quote
George Orwell
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. View quote
Albert Ellis
Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons. View quote
Jessica Lange
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. View quote
Michael Fox
Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. View quote
William James
I suppose the process of acceptance will pass through the usual four stages: (i) this is worthless nonsense; (ii) this is an interesting, but perverse, point of view; (iii) this is true, but quite unimportant; (iv) I always said so. View quote
J. B. S. Haldane
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)
I'm thrilled of the acceptance I get abroad. The people are so hearty, warm and grateful and I feel privileged having seen so many countries and some of the greatest monuments. View quote
Daniel Radcliffe
The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking. View quote
Edward de Bono
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. View quote
Anatole France
'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years. View quote
Martha Graham
Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the acceptance of differences, not the search for similarities which enables people to relate to each other in their personal or family lives. View quote
John Ralston Saul
Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance. View quote
Wietse Venema
A function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purposes when it induces a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger. Speech is often provocative and challenging. It may strike at prejudices and preconceptions and have profound unsettling effects as it presses for acceptance of an idea. View quote
William O. Douglas
It has become, in my view, a bit too trendy to regard the acceptance of death as something tantamount to intrinsic dignity. Of course I agree with the preacher of Ecclesiastes that there is a time to love and a time to die - and when my skein runs out I hope to face the end calmly and in my own way. For most situations, however, I prefer the more martial view that death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the dying of the light. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings. (Arthur Rubinstein)
Hopefully that will be seen as a response, a leadership responding to an issue and therefore one's authority, while it's not as high if you didn't have the problem, it does mean that people say 'well he used his authority to come up with a solution in double-quick time that met with broader public acceptance. View quote
Brian Cowen
It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate Essence, that mainly rests the belief or unbelief in the existence around us of other conscious beings besides the Spirits of the Dead. View quote
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
The real question is, Did God use evolution as His plan? If it could be shown that man, instead of being made in the image of God, is a development of beasts we would have to accept it, regardless of its effort, for truth is truth and must prevail. But when there is no proof we have a right to consider the effect of the acceptance of an unsupported hypothesis. View quote
William Jennings Bryan
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward; and merit without modesty, insolent. But modest merit has a double claim to acceptance, and generally meets with as many patrons as beholders. View quote
Joseph Addison