Acceptance Quotes - page 3

I have long been alarmed by people's sheeplike acceptance of the term ‘computer technology' - it sounds so objective and inexorable - when most computer technology is really a bunch of ideas turned into conventions and packages. (Ted Nelson)
Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it. View quote
Malcolm Muggeridge
That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove. View quote
Dan Brown
The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance. View quote
Nathaniel Branden
It is impossible to repristinate a past world picture by sheer resolve, especially a mythical world picture, now that all of our thinking is irrevocably formed by science. A blind acceptance of New Testament mythology would be simply arbitrariness; to make such acceptance a demand of faith would be to reduce faith to a work. View quote
Rudolf Bultmann
The acceptance of ambiguity implies more than the commonplace understanding that some good things and some bad things happen to us. It means that we know that good and evil are inextricably intermixed in human affairs; that they contain, and sometimes embrace, their opposites; that success may involve failure of a different kind, and failure may be a kind of triumph. View quote
Sydney J. Harris
The pathfinders of modern thought did not derive what is good from the law. ... Their role in history was not that of adapting their words and actions to the text of old documents or generally accepted doctrines: they themselves created the documents and brought about the acceptance of their doctrines. View quote
Max Horkheimer
Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their passive acceptance, these populations become accessories to whatever is done in their name. View quote
Frank Herbert
To be independent of public opinion is the first formal condition of achieving anything great or rational whether in life or in science. Great achievement is assured, however, of subsequent recognition and grateful acceptance by public opinion, which in due course will make it one of its own prejudices. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The peace we seek and need means much more than mere absence of war. It means the acceptance of law, and the fostering of justice, in all the world. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
With a little effort, we can help fat people help themselves. But first we have to make sure that "fat acceptance", perhaps the most alarming and irresponsible idea to come out of leftist victimhood and grievancean politics, is given the heart attack it deserves. (Milo Yiannopoulos)
The very acceptance of the limited means of the human condition makes for endless creativity. View quote
Mark Vernon
The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one's negative experience is itself a positive experience. View quote
Mark Manson
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. View quote
Melody Beattie
In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life. View quote
Salvatore Quasimodo
There just seems to be more acceptance now of... other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones. View quote
Tim Roth
My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind - like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out. View quote
Frank Ocean
Acceptance and its counterpart, understanding, are crucial to achieving relationship harmony. It is sacred love, the highest form of love, and like most things worth striving for in life, it requires patience, commitment, personal responsibility, and practice. View quote
Arielle Ford
Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you'll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you'll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room. View quote
Cheryl Strayed
To feel grateful is one of the most important experiences we need as humans. When we feel it, there is an acceptance of everything in our life. View quote
Barbara Brennan
When you invoke the agent of change called acceptance, you must accept all that you are, all that you've been and all that you will be in the future. (Debbie Ford)
Once we understand that what happens beyond our control may be just what we need, we see that acceptance of reality can be our way of participating in our own evolution. View quote
David Richo
Mastery of the German language and the acceptance of our legal system has to become part of the criteria for naturalization. View quote
Alice Schwarzer
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. View quote
Michael Fox
One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis. View quote
Baz Luhrmann