Accepting Quotes

I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

There is no place, no country, more compassionate more generous more accepting and more welcoming than the United States of America.

When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that.

Without accepting the other person's thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other's help to get results.

Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

Well, you can't be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there's going to be a flip side to it.

LA can be a very open and accepting creative environment. But it is important, because there is this odd separation here, it is important to make your kids mindful of other people and other people's plight.

We are increasingly recognising and accepting, respecting and celebrating, our cultural diversity.

My parents were always very supportive and accepting. They even shared my curiosity for life, or perhaps I theirs.

I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.

That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting.

But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them.

Acknowledging and accepting whatever stuff you may have to let go comes easier when you love yourself.

There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better.

Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.

They might have a long way to go before truly accepting gay people into their lives, but they have accepted the show into their living rooms each and every week.

When I was younger, I was really anti-Hollywood. Now I'm more accepting of it because I'm less of a snob.

What are you accepting that would not be a part of your ideal day?

It is time to return to core values, time to get back to basics , to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for the others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family - and not shuffling it off on other people and the state.

Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our "accepting" and "willing" are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God.

Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball, although you may show fortitude or those other qualities while you do it.

I put up a huge wall of denial. It was years before I was able to break through it... accepting that your child has a disability, especially one like LD that cannot be seen or easily diagnosed, is one of the hardest things to come to terms with.

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

I had individuals in my life to help me make the right decisions because it wasn't about them accepting handouts. It was about them making the right decisions for me.

When you grow up on film, people sometimes have difficulties accepting the fact that you are growing up. They always imagine you younger.

And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.

Relations between black and white would be greatly improved if we were more accepting of our fears and our feelings and more vocal about it.