Quotes with acceptance

  • When thou a fast would'st keep, Make not thy homage cheap, By publishing its signs to every eye; But let it be between Thyself and the Unseen, So shall it gain acceptance from on high.

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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival. Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
    Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Albert Ellis Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • William James Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Bill Bailey Ah, lovely: the ripple, the ripple there. That's nearly the Zen clap of acceptance there, wasn't it?
    Part Troll
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Burgess Owens As its citizens humbly recommit to an acceptance of guidance from the God of our fathers, our nation will once again see the miraculous resurrection of the proud, responsible, visionary black father. And with him, his family and community will be lifted.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Jim Rohn Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • William James Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Cassiodorus But who looks for serious conduct at the public shows? A Cato never goes to the circus. Anything said there by the people as they celebrate should be deemed no injury. It is a place that protects excesses. Patient acceptance of their chatter is a proven glory of princes themselves.
    Variae, Bk. 1, no. 27; p. 19
    Cassiodorus
    Roman statesman
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  • Robert M. Lindner Conformity, humility, acceptance... with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise.
    Robert M. Lindner
    American author and psychologist (1914 - 1956)
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  • Sigmund Freud 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.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Begum Aga Khan Families are the best place to learn and practice mutual tolerance and acceptance.
    Interview with FOCUS Magazine, July 2005
    Begum Aga Khan
    French Egyptian artist and last wife of Sultan Aga Khan III (1906 - 2000)
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  • George Orwell Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Ben Stiller I've had a very good career and I'm grateful that the public has had some level of acceptance and appreciation of my work.
    Ben Stiller
    American actor, comedian, film producer, film director, and writer (1965 - )
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  • Ouida If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it.
    Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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  • Wayne Dyer If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is ''the quiet acceptance of what is.''
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • C. Wright Mills If you do not specify and confront real issues, what you say will surely obscure them. If you do not embody controversy, what you say will be an acceptance of the drift to the coming human hell.
    Foreword, The Marxists (1962)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Bryant H. McGill In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Winston Churchill It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Brene Brown Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Phyllis Mcginley Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.
    Phyllis Mcginley
    American poet and author (1905 - 1978)
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