Accepting Quotes - Page 2

• If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Inspiration, Athlete

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• I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Country, America, Europe

  2004 Republican National Convention Address, delivered 31 August 2004, Madison Square Garden, New York

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• An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Motivational, Respect, Kings

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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• Beloveds, you are fine, just the way you are! Perfect in your imperfection! You are divine! Growing brighter and more brilliant each day, you can accept the truth of who you are.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Perfect, Each Day, Growing

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Jun 30, 2015

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• Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

  Jean Anouilh

  Life, Being Yourself, Acceptance

  "Plays: Thieves' carnival. Medea. Cécile, or The school for fathers. Traveler without luggage. The orchestra. Episode in the life of an author. Catch as catch can".

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• You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.

  Teri Garr

  Wisdom, Errors, Goal

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• There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Responsibility, Choices, Comfort

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

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

  Julie Bishop

  Diversity, Celebrate, Cultural Diversity

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

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• The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept.

  George Carlin

  Inspirational, Funny, Truth

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Civilization, Taste, Nasty

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Freedom, Acceptance

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

  Newt Gingrich

  Ideas, Political, Politics

  "Master of DISASTER". David Beers, Mother Jones Magazine, Volume 14, No. 8, October 1989.

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• Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Men, Lazy Man, Literature

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• Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.

  John Knowles

  Teenager, Today

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• Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Business, Apology

  "A Selection of Writings of and about Albert Schweitzer".

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• The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

  M. Scott Peck

  Pain, Lying, Responsibility

  M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Spiritual, Cute Friendship, Being Sad

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer”, p.11, Open Road Media

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  Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.

  Melody Beattie

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

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• Know yourself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

  Ann Landers

  Dog, Witty, Cat

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• 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.

  John Buchanan Robinson

  Realization, Individual, Institutions

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• No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Responsibility

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.195, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws. These are simply decisions made within institutions that are subject to human will and that must face the test of legitimacy. And if they do not meet the test, they can be replaced by other institutions that are more free and more just, as has happened often in the past.

  Noam Chomsky

  Believe, Acceptance, Past

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• Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works whether we accept it or not.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Positive, Law Of Attraction

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• When the institutions of money rule the world, it is perhaps inevitable that the interests of money will take precedence over the interests of people. What we are experiencing might best be described as a case of money colonizing life. To accept this absurd distortion of human institutions and purpose should be considered nothing less than an act of collective, suicidal insanity.

  David Korten

  Money, Suicidal, Acceptance

  "When Corporations Rule the World". Book by David Korten, January 1, 1995.

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• By accepting you as you are, I do not necessarily abandon all hope of your improving

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Abandon, Improving

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