Acceptance Quotes

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

~ Sting

Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance.

~ Charlize Theron

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

~ Martha Graham

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

~ George Orwell

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.

~ Brené Brown

The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not come easily. Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact.

~ John Henrik Clarke

We are mindful of desire when we experience it with an embodied awareness, recognizing the sensations and thoughts of wanting as arising and passing phenomena. While this isn't easy, as we cultivate the clear seeing and compassion of Radical Acceptance, we discover we can open fully to this natural force, and remain free in its midst.

~ Tara Brach

The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.

~ Pierre Bayle

If I have one wish for my birthday, it is that 35 is the end of desperation and the beginning of acceptance. Part of that is believing that if I'm meant to give birth, I will.

~ Jessi Klein

Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.

~ Karan Johar

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.

~ George Mcgovern

That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

~ Dan Brown

Gay marriage acceptance is happening in the blink of an eye.

~ P. J. O'rourke

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

~ Jessica Lange

I think it's important to remember that Christianity was based in love and tolerance and forgiveness and acceptance.

~ Kristin Chenoweth

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

The evolution of technology is, like the evolution of literature, heavily path-dependent. Culture plays a far more important role in the acceptance, adoption, and spread of technology than many of us are willing to acknowledge.

~ Ken Liu

A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.

~ Jim Jarmusch

I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.

~ Chris Christie

Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.

~ Chris Christie

I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.

~ Tina Turner

Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

~ Eckhart Tolle

Peace is a gift that is embodied through the Holy Spirit through the acceptance of Christ.

~ Monica Johnson

It's important to remember that the animals are not grieving with us. They're very accepting. They're not lying there thinking 'How could you do this to me? Why aren't you keeping me going?' Pets don't do the human things of guilt and anger and recrimination that we do. They come and go with great acceptance.

~ Jon Katz

Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11, 2001, and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the public's whipsawing stages of acceptance.

~ Ron Fournier

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

~ Nathaniel Branden