Sayings about Acceptance
He who accepts the gift loses his liberty. ~ Hungarian Proverbs
Whoever writes a book, should be ready to accept criticism. ~ Iraqi Proverbs
It is better to carry stones with a wise man than accept the meal of a madman. ~ Armenian Proverbs
To long for everything: sorrow; to accept everything: joy. ~ Indian Proverbs
Who accepts from another sells his freedom. ~ German Proverbs
Who accepts nothing has nothing to return. ~ German Proverb
Don’t say amen to an unacceptable prayer. ~ Turkish Proverbs
He is truly hungry who accepts defeat in a fight over meat. ~ Malagasy Proverbs
Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold. ~ Latin Proverbs
Lies are accepted once, not twice. ~ Islamic Proverb
Quotations about Acceptance
Acceptance of the power of God in one’s life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict. ~ Kenneth L. Pike
Happiness can exist only in acceptance. ~ George Orwell
Almost any event will put on a new face when received with cheerful acceptance. ~ Henry S. Haskins
The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings. ~ Okakura Kakuzo
After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means. ~ Mason Cooley
God asks no man whether he will accept life. This is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance. ~ Horace
I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community. ~ Lady Gaga
Happiness is a function of accepting what is. ~ Werner Erhard
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. ~ William James
with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end of a love or a season. ~ Robert Frost
A man doesn’t learn to understand anything unless he loves it. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. ~ Buddha
The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance. ~ Nathaniel Branden
It is almost more important how a person takes his fate than what it is. ~ Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Acceptance makes any event put on a new face. ~ Henry S. Haskins
Ride the horse in the direction that it’s going. ~ Werner Erhard
Getting older is a struggle. I always feel that just under the surface of acceptance and enjoyment of the ageing process is a terrible hysteria just waiting to burst out. ~ Michael Sheen
The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen. ~ Ralph Marston
The homosexual community has more acceptance in America than it ever has, and the suicide rate is as high as it’s always been. ~ Randall Terry
No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it. ~ Fernando Pessoa
Acceptance doesn’t mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there’s got to be a way through it. ~ Michael J. Fox
We cannot change anything unless we accept it. ~ Carl Jung
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
Let there be no doubt, while I strongly disagree with the court’s decision, I accept it. ~ Al Gore,
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. ~ Maureen Dowd
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. ~ Carl Gustav Jung
If you can accept losing, you can’t win. ~ Author Unknown
The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. ~ Clarence Day
Our entire life consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are. ~ Jean Anouilh
We must like what we have when we don’t have what we like. ~ Comte De Bussy-Rabutin
Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance. ~ Zachary Quinto
The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance. ~ Brian Tracy
Services like Google and Facebook only exist because of the social acceptance of a mass amount of distributed volunteer labor from tons and tons of people. ~ Jaron Lanier
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own. ~ Jean Toomer
Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection. ~ Sir John Powell
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. ~ Brendan Francis
If you can’t fight, and you can’t flee, flow. ~ Robert Eliot
Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth. ~ Pierre Bayle
People are lucky and unlucky… according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect. ~ Samuel Butler
Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons. ~ Jessica Lange
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. ~ Michael J. Fox
As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it. ~ Dick Cavett
Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with. ~ Robert Frost
For this is wisdom: to live, to take what fate, or the Gods, may give. ~ Laurence Hope
I wish they would only take me as I am. ~ Vincent van Gogh
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The first step toward change is acceptance. Once you accept yourself, you open the door to change. That’s all you have to do. Change is not something you do, it’s something you allow. ~ Will Garcia
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
Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits. ~ James Baldwin
If you are wise, live as you can; if you cannot, live as you would. ~ Baltasar Gracian
Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home. ~ Boethius
Ask not that events should happen as you will, but let your will be that events should happen as they do, and you shall have peace. ~ Epictetus
Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition. ~ Cyril Falls
Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. ~ William James
I will not meddle with that which I cannot mend. ~ Thomas Fuller
Better to accept whatever happens. ~ Horace
What we need is not more distrust and division. What we need now is acceptance. ~ Tom Daschle
Let a man accept his destiny. No pity and no tears. ~ Euripides
Our accepting what we must always inhibits our being what we ought to be. ~ John Fowles
I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes. ~ Sara Teasdale
We must deal with the world as we find it, not as we would like it to be. ~ Lee Balkum
Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it. ~ Malcolm Muggeridge
Living Beyond Your Pain: Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Ease. ~ Book preview
