Accepting Quotes - Page 8

• Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  4th Of July, Responsibility, Past

  John F. Kennedy's Speech at Loyola College Alumni Banquet, Baltimore, Maryland, www.jfklibrary.org. February 18, 1958.

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• There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Relationship, Ideas, Voice

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  Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

  Lucille Ball

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

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• In our imaginations we believe that love is apart from us. Actually there is nothing but love, once we are ready to accept it. When you truly find love, you find yourself

  Deepak Chopra

  Love, Motivational, Spiritual

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• Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.

  Diane Sawyer

  Positive, Inspiring, Success

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• Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Change, Suffering, Management

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• We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

  John Lennon

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Steve Neal (2002). “Eleanor and Harry: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• Ours is an open and accepting society, and has historically provided an avenue for lawful immigration to all those willing to accept the responsibilities of citizenship.

  Spencer Bachus

  Responsibility, Immigration, Citizenship

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• We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

  Arianna Huffington

  Positive, Success, Business

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• Life is accepting what is and working from that.

  Gloria Naylor

  Life, Inspire, Accepting What Is

  Gloria Naylor (2005). “The Women of Brewster Place”, p.85, Penguin

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• I open my arms wide and declare with love that I deserve and accept all good!

  Louise Hay

  Arms, Wide, Deserve

  Louise L. Hay (2010). “Meditations to Heal Your Life”, p.50, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• And it is to rock the soul and lead the person to immorality, corruption - to forget their prayers, to forget their God. And thus the world has partaken of the spirit of the Negro race, accepting their ways.

  Warren Jeffs

  Prayer, Race, Rocks

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• The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.

  George Steiner

  Broken, Silence, Society

  George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.432, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Accepting Turkey as a member of the European club means that the club is open to outsiders, to Muslims, to poorer people, to developing countries, to countries with a slightly different cultural tradition but basically the same values. I think it's dangerous for the West to close the door; it doesn't do us any good and it doesn't do the rest of the world any good. Also, it reduces the danger of a "clash of civilizations".

  Andrew Mango

  Country, Mean, Thinking

  "The Turks Today". Interview With Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. October 26, 2005.

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• When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberrations their aberrations, that any revolt will be against them. It's a remarkably shrewd and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Thinking, Errors, Democracies Have

  "The Age of Uncertainty". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter 12, p. 330, 1977.

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• I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Believe, Responsibility, Men

  Ellen Glasgow (1935). “Vein of Iron”

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• What you must accept as a parent is that you cannot always be there for your child without sometimes ruining everything.

  Robert Breault

  Children, Parent, Sometimes

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• The hardest thing to accept as a parent is that you cannot apply the bandage before the bruise.

  Robert Breault

  Parent, Bruises, Hardest

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• My heart goes out to the families of innocent children who were killed today in Pakistan!! I do not accept a world where kids are killed for wanting an education! This violence and ignorance has to stop!!!! It starts with all of us treating all human beings with dignity and respect!!

  Madonna Ciccone

  Children, Heart, Ignorance

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• Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.

  Lydia M. Child

  Angel, Men, Clouds

  "Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 39, 1843.

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• In a land which is fully settled, most men must accept their local environment or try to change it by political means; only the exceptionally gifted or adventurous can leave to seek his fortune elsewhere. In America, on the other hand, to move on and make a fresh start somewhere else is still the normal reaction to dissatisfaction and failure.

  W. H. Auden

  Moving, Mean, Men

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• Let a man accept his destiny, No pity and no tears.

  Euripides

  Destiny, Men, Tears

  Euripides (1942). “Euripides”

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