Acceptance Quotes - Page 39

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

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Messengers, Messages

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”

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• The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

  George MacDonald

  Kindness, Firsts, Transmission

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

  David Mamet

  Gay, Conservative, Pretending

  "David Mamet On ‘The Colbert Report’: ‘Theater Is Always Dying,’ ‘Directors Are Mostly Useless’", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2010.

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• The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.

  George C. Marshall

  War, Winning, Way

  "This is Our World" by Louis Fisher, (p. 91), 1956.

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• These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn't even know existed.

  Ricky Martin

  Reflection, Years, Giving

  "Ricky Martin says he's 'a fortunate homosexual man'" by Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. March 29, 2010.

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

  Bryant H. McGill

  Thinking, America, Literature

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• An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

  James A. Michener

  War, Failure, Ignorance

  James A. Michener “SPACE”

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• I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Respect, Self Reliance, Care

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book II, Ch. 16, 1595.

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• Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Confidence, Self Esteem, Loving Yourself

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book III, Ch. 13, 1595.

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

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Humor, Reality, Tax Evasion

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• I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

  John Muir

  Happiness, Nature, Travel

  John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.315, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.

  Dave Mustaine

  Moving On, Letting Go, Moving Forward

  Song: À Tout le Monde

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• Washington is still very much a male-oriented culture. Being from Los Angeles, I think it is less so there - there is less attachment to tradition, perhaps, there is more flexibility, more acceptance of change generally. That is partly because of Hollywood.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Thinking, Attachment, Males

  "Dee Dee Myers : Press Secretary to an Administration Full of Talkers". Interview with Thomas B. Rosenstiel, articles.latimes.com. March 20, 1994.

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• What we don't understand we can make mean anything.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Mean, Superstitions, Judgment

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• I'm hard on myself, so I'm working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Self, Perspective, Weakness

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

  Fernando Pessoa

  Stupid, Intelligent, Ideas

  "The Book of Disquietude" by Fernando Pessoa, translated by Richard Zenith, (text 104), 1982.

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• People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives have no choice but to contemplate the use of force to bring about a better world, mindful of the trade-off between a small amount of violence now and acceptance of an unjust status quo indefinitely.

  Steven Pinker

  Long, People, Political

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• An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.

  Max Planck

  Change, Winning, Rejection

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

  Zachary Quinto

  Children, Parent, Principles

  "Actor Zachary Quinto comes out in honor of bullied teen". www.cnn.com. October 16, 2011.

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• 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.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Country, Grateful, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.

  Christopher Reeve

  Wisdom, Thinking, Hands

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• If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Motivational, Change, Success

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Wisdom, Character, Thinking

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.28, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• A man snatches the first kiss, pleads for the second, demands the third, takes the fourth, accepts the fifth - and endures all the rest.

  Helen Rowland

  Love, Kissing, Men

  Helen Rowland (2017). “A Guide to Men: Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl”, p.27, Litres

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• 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.

  Salman Rushdie

  Reality, Air, Fiction

  Salman Rushdie (1990). “Is nothing sacred?”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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