acceptance Quotes

Once you free yourself from the need for perfect acceptance, it's a lot easier to launch work that matters.

The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it's always been.

Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed.

Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.

Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.

A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance.

That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

The acceptance of homosexuality is the last step in the decline of Gentile civilization,

He should accept me as I am!Ђќ says the woman who is too nice. Accept you? Oh no, sister. Slap yourself. He should want you madly. Acceptance has nothing to do with it. He accepts a doormat. But he desires his dreamgirl.

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance.

Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.

The marker of those who understand the gospel of Jesus Christ is that, when they stumble and fall, when they screw up, they run to God and not from him, because they clearly understand that their acceptance before God is not predicated upon their behavior but on the righteous life of Jesus Christ and his sacrificial death.

Acceptance. We want someone to look at us, and really see usЂ'our physical flaws, our personality quirks, our insecurities. And we want them to be okay with every square inch of who we are. We're always afraid we might be too needy or too much work. We put all these limitations on ourselves and our relationships because we're afraid that we're not really loved. That we're not really accepted. We hide little pieces of ourselves because we think that might be the one thing that finally drives away the person who

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.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of the male animal.

Forgiveness entails the authentic acceptance of our own worthiness as human beings, the understanding that mistakes are opportunities for growth, awareness and the cultivation of compassion, and the realization that the extension of love to ourselves and others is the glue that holds the universe together. Forgiveness...is not a set of behaviors, but an attitude.

Self-acceptance is involved in this process. You have got to be able to look at both your dark and your light side and not get enamored or depressed by either.

To operate based on conviction and belief requires an acceptance that your actions could get you fired. This is different from pig-headed bravado, and it is different from putting the company at risk.

We only have a Plan A. The acceptance and full implementation of the existing plan, the so-called Plan A, is the best solution for Greece, for the euro zone and also for creditors and holders.

The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.

It was almost comforting, this mutual acceptance of our secrets.

To be beautiful means to be yourself.You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. When you are born a lotus flower, be a beautiful lotus flower, don't try to be a magnolia flower. If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life. True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself.

As I took a step toward him your eyes met mine and I saw the silent pleading for forgiveness or acceptance. I wasn't sure which. All I knew was you were Sawyer's now. My best friend was gone. I envied him and hated him for the first time that day. He'd finaly won the one prize I thought was mine.

Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.

With this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, I have always enjoyed much cheerfulness before men; but I have at the same time laboured incessantly to cultivate the deepest humiliation before God.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.

The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.