Acceptance Quotes - Page 5

• My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.

  Drew Barrymore

  Your Beautiful, Being Beautiful, Body

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• As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.

  Dick Cavett

  Inspirational, Funny, Business

  Playboy Interview. Vol. 18, no. 3, p. 70, March 1971.

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• There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.

  Cesar Chavez

  Hard Work, Commitment, Reality

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• I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Happiness, Moving, Thinking

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• Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

  Anatole France

  Inspirational, Risk, Atheism

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• Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Tolerance, Assuming, Form

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• Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it

  T. S. Eliot

  Letting Go, Time, Past

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  I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

  Frederick Douglass

  Respect, Fear, Integrity

  Frederick Douglass (2013). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

  Jim Morrison

  Best Friend, Friendship, Being Yourself

  "Indulge In Your Friendships — The Best Reinvention Of Them All" by Kathi Sharpe-Ross, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 1, 2013.

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• As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

  James Anthony Froude

  Life, Learning, Limits

  James Anthony Froude (1875). “Short Studies on Great Subjects: Second series”, p.313

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• Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man.

  Jean Anouilh

  Men, Facts, Accepting

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• Everything which you can conceive and accept is yours! Entertain no doubt. Refuse to accept worry or hurry or fear. That which knows and does everything is inside you and harkens to the slightest whisper.

  Uell Stanley Andersen

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Believe In Yourself

  Uell Stanley Andersen (1954). “The key to power and personal peace”

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• The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with the qualifications for adaptation, the ability to accept the inevitable and conform to the unavoidable, to harmonize with existing or changing conditions.

  Dave Smalley

  Life, Strong, Law

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• Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway.

  Maurice Strong

  Differences, Making A Difference, Pathways

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• Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Events, Connections, Divine

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.118, Penguin

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• Wish that everything should come about just as it does.

  Epictetus

  Wish, Doe, Should

  "Discourses, Fragments, Handbook".

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• Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.

  George R. R. Martin

  Wisdom, Life And Love, Self

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• When you become a lover of what is, the war is over.

  Byron Katie

  Love, War, Becoming

  Twitter post from May 10, 2011

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• As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Life, Trust

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• I'm not going to sacrifice my mental health to have the perfect body.

  Demi Lovato

  Sacrifice, Perfect, Body

  "Demi Lovato Responds To 'Fatty' Tweet With An 'I Love You'", www.foxnews.com. April 18, 2014.

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• If you want to experience all of the successes and pleasure in life, you have to be willing to accept all the pain and failure that comes with it.

  Mat Hoffman

  Life, Success, Sports

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• I would only lose weight if it affected my health or sex life, which it doesn't.

  Adele

  Sex, Weight, Affected

  "Adele: The Biography" book by Chas Newkey-Burden, 2011.

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• I surround people in unconditional acceptance and love to such a degree that everything that is unloving about them rises to the surface.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  People, And Love, Degrees

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• We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.

  Desmond Tutu

  Being Alone, Ready, International Peace

  Desmond Tutu (2011). “God Is Not a Christian: And Other Provocations”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• Upon receiving my notification of acceptance to the university, my parents noticed that they were obliged to submit to the university, among other things, a copy of my official family register. After much mental anguish, they decided to inform me of the secret of my birth.

  Koichi Tanaka

  Sea, Parent, Secret

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