Acceptance Quotes - Page 31

• All those who possess in its pure state the love of their neighbour and the acceptance of the order of the world, inclucing affliction-all those, even should they live and die to all appearances atheists, are surely saved.

  Simone Weil

  Atheist, Order, World

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• Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.

  Bill Crawford

  Serenity, Precursor

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• Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.

  Bill Crawford

  Validation, Hardest, Needed

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• Tolerance ain't the same as acceptance, even though we all wish it was.

  Amy Ray

  Tolerance, Wish

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• I believe in the acceptance of personal responsibility, freedom of choice, and the British Empire, which took freedom and the rule of law to countries which would never have known it otherwise.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Believe, Responsibility

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• On many young actors that don't give their parents proper credit: I'm still waiting for some actor to win, say, an Oscar... and deliver the following acceptance speech: I would like to thank my parents, first of all, for letting me live.

  Bill Cosby

  Winning, Giving, Parent

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• Rappers should be forced to rhyme in their acceptance speeches.

  Doug Benson

  Rapper, Speech, Should

  Twitter post from Aug 25, 2013

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• My kids are growing up and it's hard to accept they are their own person and they're independent.

  Ray Romano

  Growing Up, Kids, Independent

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• Acceptance is going to a restaurant where the salad's not great, but the steak is fine.

  Albert Brooks

  Salad, Steak, Restaurants

  "Albert Brooks: What I've Learned". Esquire, "The Meaning of Life" issue, www.esquire.com. January 2011.

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• You must accept responsibility for your actions. This doesn't include reactions, interactions or transactions if you're thinkin' loophole.

  Dane Cook

  Responsibility, Action, Accepting

  Twitter post from May 30, 2012

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• People spend thousands of dollars trying to keep their teeth straight. I just hope we can live in a world where we accept gay teeth.

  Craig Ferguson

  Gay, People, Trying

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• It think acceptance levels sort of swings back and forth. Like in the 60's there was a lot more freedom with sex that doesn't exist today. Language has gotten pushed a bit farther and violence is way far out.

  Bob Saget

  Sex, Thinking, Swings

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• You can accept that things are awful and still have a sense of humor about it.

  Daniel Tosh

  Awful, Sense Of Humor, Accepting

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• I don't have a gun. But I think they level the playing field. I accept that there's really nothing you can do about it. It's like nuclear weapons; if they exist then eventually other people are going to have them. Maybe just take away people's motivation to use them.

  Doug Stanhope

  Motivation, Gun, Thinking

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• Normal people, want to be accepted. Screwed up people, want to be accepted. It's one of the few things we have in common. My whole life, all I ever wanted was my dad to pat me on the top of the head and go, Who's a good boy ? Who's a good boy? But, instead, all he ever did was wipe peanut butter on the end of my nose and laugh while I tried to lick it off.

  Christopher Titus

  Dad, Boys, Laughing

  "Titus / Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• As a comedian, as an entertainer, there's a lot of downtime. Once you can accept that comedy is a marathon, not a sprint, it gets a little easier.

  Iliza Shlesinger

  Comedian, Downtime, Littles

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• Nike store won't accept my Starbucks card as payment. Come on guys, just do it.

  Dov Davidoff

  Nike, Guy, Cards

  FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jul 22, 2011

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• ... the battle for the acceptance of photography as Art was not only counter-productive but counter-revolutionary. The most important photography is most emphatically not Art.

  A. D. Coleman

  Photography, Art, Important

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• Total self acceptance is empowering. It means allowing others to see you as they choose, without being offended.

  Deepak Chopra

  Mean, Self, Empowering

  Twitter post from Apr 5, 2012

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• Few trends could so thoroughly undermine the very foundations of our free society as the acceptance by corporate officials of a social responsibility other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible.

  Milton Friedman

  Responsibility, Foundation, Trends

  Milton Friedman (2009). “Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition”, p.133, University of Chicago Press

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• One thing is certain: the humility of faith, if it is followed by the proper consequences-by the acceptance of the work and sacrifice demanded by our providential task-will do far more to launch us into the full current of historical reality than the pompous rationalizations of politicians who think they are somehow the directors and manipulators of history.

  Thomas Merton

  Humility, Sacrifice, Reality

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• Man has a single basic choice: to think or not, and that is the gauge of his virtue. Moral perfection is an unbreached rationality-not the degree of your intelligence, but the full and relentless use of your mind, not the extent of your knowledge, but the acceptance of reason as an absolute.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Thinking, Perfection

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.999, Penguin

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• I believe everyone should have an opportunity to search for truth their own way. Humility, peace, child-like enthusiasm, acceptance, and sincerity is the true infinity engine!

  Akiane Kramarik

  Children, Believe, Humility

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• We must seek to understand the intent of communication without prejudging or rejecting the content... Communication, after all, is not so much a matter of intellect as it is of trust and acceptance of others, of their ideas and feelings, acceptance of the fact that they're different, and that from their point of view, they are right.

  Stephen Covey

  Communication, Views, Ideas

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• I stand among you as one who offers a small message of hope. . . there are always people who dare to seek on the margin of society, who are not dependent on social acceptance, not dependent on social routine, and prefer a kind of free-floating existence under a state of risk.

  Thomas Merton

  People, Risk, Routine

  Thomas Merton (2015). “Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation”, p.6, Sounds True

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