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Acceptance Quotes
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Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will- to- action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens. (Quote by - Arthur Gordon)
The ACCEPTANCE that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins. (Quote by - Salman Rushdie)
If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind. (Quote by - Fay Weldon)
Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself, but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you. (Quote by - Stewart E. White)
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. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him. (Quote by - George Orwell)
Acceptance of others, their looks, their behaviours, their beliefs, bring you an inner peace and tranquillity -- instead of anger and resentment. (Quote by - Source Unknown)
There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder. (Quote by - Ella Wheeler Wilcox)
I've learned to take time for myself and to treat myself with a great deal of love and respect 'cause I like me.. I think I'm kind of cool. (Quote by - Whoopi Goldberg)
Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the self- esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish. (Quote by - Sam Walton)
Happiness can exist only in acceptance. (Quote by - Denis De Rougamont)
Every man must at last accept himself for his portion, and learn to do his work with the tools and talents with which he has been endowed. (Quote by - Charles A. Hawley)
Contentment, and indeed usefulness, comes as the infallible result of great acceptances, great humilities . (Quote by -of not trying to conform to some dramatized version of ourselves. (Quote by - David Grayson)
The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there . (Quote by - you build yourself. Those are the high ones, the thick ones, the ones with no doors in. (Quote by - Ursula K. LeGuin)