Acceptance Quotes

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.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People.

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

There just seems to be more acceptance now of... other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance.

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.

Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.

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

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.

I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.

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.

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.

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

To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall.

Television is so influential that when an audience sees you day-in and day-out there's a certain acceptance that sets in; you're no longer a threatening personality. They become more willing to accept whatever you present.

In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.

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

Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept.

If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.

PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.

I've had a very good career and I'm grateful that the public has had some level of acceptance and appreciation of my work.

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

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

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.