Acceptance

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

All that we desire, all that we can ever envision or hope to attain is already provided for us it is already available and will ever be awaiting our acceptance....

- Mary L. Kupferle Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.

- James Baldwin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The publication of caricatures may not have transgressed any legal boundaries, but it certainly violated ethical norms based on mutual respect and acceptance of other people's religious beliefs.

- Terry Davis Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

- Maya Angelou Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

- Aristotle Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

If we worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance.

- Wilbur Wright Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

- Carl Gustav Jung Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

At this momentous event in my life - the acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize - I want to speak as a scientist, but also as a human being.

- Joseph Rotblat Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

On the other hand in London you can get an audience that desires dance to go as far as it can go they've seen the bricks of ideas built over a period so therefore there is an acceptance of what otherwise might seem out on a limb.

- Siobhan Davies Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It does not appear to me that my hand is unworthy your acceptance, or that the establishment I can offer would be any other than highly desirable.

- Jane Austen Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

- James Russell Lowell Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The issue is not the acceptance, but the performance on the ground, ... So let the inspectors go in, and I urge the Iraqis to cooperate with them and to perform, and I think that is the real test we are waiting for.

- Kofi Annan Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.

- Jean Toomer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

- William James Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The vanity of the world, and its insufficiency to satisfy the soul of man, has been long a settled conviction of my mind. Man's inability to secure by his own merits the approbation of God, I feel to be true. I trust in the atonement of the Savior of mercy, as the ground of my acceptance and of my hope of salvation.

- Henry Clay Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

There are two paths leading to oneness with the Tao. The first in the path of acceptance. Affirm everyone and everything. Freely extend you goodwill and virtue in every direction, regardless of circumstances. Embrace all things as part of the Harmonious Oneness, and then you will begin to perceive it. The second path is that of denial. Recognize that everything you see and think is a falsehood, an illusion, a veil over the truth. Peel all the veils away, and you will arrive at the Oneness. Though these paths are entirely different, they will deliver you to the same place spontaneous awareness of the Great Oneness.

- Lao Tzu Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Their acceptance speeches are often proof of what lousy actors they are. They're often thanking people we know they sparred with all over the place.

- Tom O'Neil Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

- Albert Einstein Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.

- Mason Cooley Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

He literally carried the league. He gave us recognition and acceptance when we were at the bottom of the totem pole in professional sports.

- Bob Cousy Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

You're going to have more rejection than acceptance.

- Barry Mann Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.

- Ivan Illich Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Nate, especially, is a character, whose overall story arc has always been inching towards full acceptance of his own mortality. And what is the final step of acceptance of one's mortality It's death.

- Alan Ball Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I liked quickness very much and Pete had it. And I really liked his acceptance of the role he had. He didn't get to play nearly as much as he expected to when he came, but he accepted it.

- John Wooden Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes