Acceptance Quotes - Page 22

• When I decided to go into politics I weighed the costs. I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.

  Herbert Hoover

  Criticism, Cost, Able

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• One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.

  Andre Gide

  Overcoming

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• I think the main big thing for me has been the acceptance from the U.S. That's still crazy to me. To come over to the U.S. and be a British girl and have all these people know who I am. It's unbelievable and it just seems to be getting better and better.

  Cher Lloyd

  Girl, Crazy, Thinking

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• Why the increasing emphasis by professional age experts and the media on - and public acceptance of - the nursing home as the locus of age when, in fact, more than ninety percent of those over sixty-five continue to live in the community?

  Betty Friedan

  Home, Nursing, Media

  Betty Friedan (2006). “Fountain of Age”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide.

  Fay Weldon

  Effort, Tides, Avoiding

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• It is a common observation that those who dwell continually upon their expectations are apt to become oblivious to the requirements of their actual situation.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Expectations, Requirements, Common

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1958). “Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance)”, p.19, Courier Corporation

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• To release others from the expectations we have of them is to really love them.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Expectations, Release

  "Going Within: A Guide for Inner Transformation". Book by Shirley MacLaine, January 1, 1989.

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• One of the major changes in attitude that occurred in the world of art as we moved from the nineteenth into the twentieth century was that the twentieth century artist became more involved with personal expression than with celebrating exclusively the values of the society or the church. Along with this change came a broader acceptance of the belief that the artist can invent a reality that is more meaningful than the one that is literally given to the eye. I subscribe enthusiastically to this.

  Jerry Uelsmann

  Meaningful, Art, Attitude

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• The world of religion is no longer a concrete fact proposed for our acceptance and adoration. It is an unfathomable universe which engulfs us, and which lives its own majestic uncomprehended life: and we discover that our careful maps and cherished definitions bear little relation to its unmeasured reality.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Reality, Religion, World

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• the more one advances, the more one sees the goal is still far off. And now I am simply resigned to see myself always imperfect and in this I find my joy.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Goal, Joy, Imperfect

  St. Therese of Lisieux (2013). “Story of a Soul The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux: Third Edition Translated from the Original Manuscripts”, p.80, ICS Publications

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• As a Black lesbian feminist comfortable with the many different ingredients of my identity, and a woman committed to racial and sexual freedom from oppression, I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self. But this is a destructive and fragmenting way to live.

  Audre Lorde

  Meaningful, Self, Feminist

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• Every hen thinks she has laid the best egg! Can we not all believe as we choose? But the choice of others - what is that to us? Let them alone.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Believe, Thinking, Eggs

  Phyllis Bottome (1998). “The Mortal Storm”, p.52, Northwestern University Press

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• Why must you always try to be omnipotent, and shove things about? Tragic things happen sometimes that we just have to submit to.

  Rebecca West

  Loss, Trying, Sometimes

  Rebecca West (1977). “Rebecca West, a celebration”, Viking Adult

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• Self-acceptance begets acceptance from others, which begets even deeper, more genuine self-acceptance. It can be done. But no one is going to bestow it on you. It is a gift only you can give yourself.

  Camryn Manheim

  Self, Giving, Done

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• Forgive yourself. The supreme act of forgiveness is when you can forgive yourself for all the wounds you've created in your own life. Forgiveness is an act of self-love. When you forgive yourself, self-acceptance begins and self-love grows.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Self, Forgiving, Love Grows

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• I'm looking at everything with a clear eye and an attitude of acceptance rather than skepticism. I realized, this isn't a career - this is my life. This is what I do. It doesn't matter what the size of the role is. It matter that you're enjoying yourself. And I'm loving it.

  Jake Busey

  Attitude, Eye, Careers

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• It is rather calming to remember that you really couldn't have foreseen what is happening to you.

  Margaret Widdemer

  Calming, Remember, Happenings

  Margaret Widdemer (1917). “The Wishing-ring Man”

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• [Her life with Tony Curtis in 1961:] We were beginning the climb to a higher plateau. Acceptance. Recognition. Status. Security. We only had to hold on and hope the thin air didn't make us dizzy and cause a tumble. We also needed to remember that the inside had to ascend together with the outside.

  Janet Leigh

  Air, Together, Causes

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• the female view that one strengthens oneself by strengthening others is finding greater acceptance, and female values of inclusion and connection are emerging as valuable leadership qualities.

  Sally Helgesen

  Leadership, Views, Quality

  Sally Helgesen (2011). “The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership”, p.233, Crown Business

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• Fortunately, any kind of setback has represented a challenge to do better, rather than an acceptance of inferiority on my part.

  Frances Parkinson Keyes

  Challenges, Inferiority, Kind

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• One of the greatest disasters of our time is our universal acceptance of the word "tolerance" as a great virtue.

  Zig Ziglar

  Tolerance, Virtue, Disaster

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• That's why their realization is not integrated and complete, and they must go through many, many lifetimes very often before that acceptance will take place.

  Frederick Lenz

  Realization, Lifetime, Samadhi

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• Action painting has to do with self-creation or self-definition or self-transcendence; but this dissociates it from self-expression, which assumes the acceptance of the ego as it is, with its wound and its magic.

  Hannah Arendt

  Self, Expression, Ego

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• Arnold Schwarzenegger is gonna be the new governor of California. During his acceptance speech Arnold said 'I will not let you down.' Unfortunately, at the time Arnold was holding a woman over his head and looking up her dress.

  Conan O'Brien

  California, Speech, Dresses

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• Make friends with guilt. Guilt is a beautiful emotion that alerts us when something is wrong so that we may achieve peace with our conscience. Without conscience there would be no morality. So we can greet guilt cordially and with acceptance, just as we do all other emotions. After we respond to guilt, it has done its job and we can release it.

  Glenn R. Schiraldi

  Beautiful, Jobs, Guilt

  Glenn R. Schiraldi (2007). “10 Simple Solutions for Building Self-Esteem: How to End Self-Doubt, Gain Confidence, & Create a Positive Self-Image”, p.126, New Harbinger Publications

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