Top 101 Acceptance Quotes

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Acceptance is not always the easiest thing to do. However, in order to live a fulfilling life, it is important to be able to accept. With that in mind, check out the top 101 acceptance quotes.

#101 – 90. Acceptance Quotes

101. The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance. – Nathaniel Branden

100. There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance. – Cesar Chavez

99. 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

98. Have a big enough heart to love unconditionally, and a broad enough mind to embrace the differences that make each of us unique. – D.B. Harrop

97. Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. – Eckhart Tolle

96. I am Dead, but it’s not so bad. I’ve learned to live with it. – Isaac Marion

95. Acceptance of one’s life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices. – Paul Tournier

94. Accept your genius and say what you think. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

93. The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. – Carl Gustav Jung

92. George Foreman. A miracle. A mystery to myself. Who am I? The mirror says back. The George you was always meant to be. Wasn’t always like that. Used to look in the mirror and cried a river. – George Foreman

91. I wish they would only take me as I am. – Vincent Van Gogh

90. Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. – Albert Camus

#89 – 80. Acceptance Quotes

89. It was gradually learned that acceptance of a somewhat higher inflation rate would not really bring somewhat higher employment. – Edmund Phelps

88. We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

87. It doesn’t matter what we do until we accept ourselves. Once we accept ourselves, it doesn’t matter what we do. – Charly Heavenrich

86. Any natural, normal human being, when faced with any kind of loss, will go from shock all the way through acceptance. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

85. 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

84. When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others. – Peace Pilgrim

83. 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

82. I think it’s important to remember that Christianity was based in love and tolerance and forgiveness and acceptance. – Kristin Chenoweth

81. Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it. – Rasheed Ogunlaru

80. Acceptance and assimilation, you know, breeds mediocrity and perhaps an even more sheep-like conformism in terms of what kind of music you’re supposed to listen to if you’re gay… What are you supposed to look like? What’s your body supposed to look like? – John Cameron Mitchell

#79 – 70. Acceptance Quotes

79. Nobody’s going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can’t always be in the fast lane. – Haruki Murakami

78. 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

77. For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining, is to let it rain. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

76. It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes. – Robert E. Lee

75. Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect. – Jackie Robinson

74. ‘Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years. – Martha Graham

73. The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth. – Pierre Bayle

72. Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change. – Shannon L. Alder

71. 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

70. As I get older, the more I stay focused on the acceptance of myself and others, and choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear. – Tracee Ellis Ross

#69 – 60. Acceptance Quotes

69. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

68. ‘Star Trek’ is about acceptance, and the strength of the Starship Enterprise is that it embraces diversity in all its forms. – George Takei

67. Some people swallow the universe like a pill; they travel on through the world, like smiling images pushed from behind. – Robert Louis Stevenson

66. We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves. – Dalai Lama XIV

65. The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance. – Brian Tracy

64. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. – William James

63. Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own. – Jean Toomer

62. Wonder Woman is a fighter, better than most, but it’s what she fights for that is important. It’s her vision of a future of peace and acceptance that makes her the right ambassador for everyone. – Gal Gadot

61. If a person lacks self-acceptance, he can’t live with himself; if he lacks self-criticism, others can’t live with him. – James Albert Pike

60. The acceptance of certain realities doesn’t preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs. – Rem Koolhaas

#59 – 50. Acceptance Quotes

59. People only see what they are prepared to see. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

58. 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. – Russell Lynes

57. I feel blessed and humbled that people have loved my music. Nothing would be possible without their acceptance. – A. R. Rahman

56. 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

55. 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

54. I found that laughter was a form of acceptance, and I really enjoyed that and I just – I crave it. – Gabriel Iglesias

53. Accept everything about yourself — I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end — no apologies, no regrets. – Clark Moustakas

52. A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. – Mark Twain

51. We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are. – Harry S Truman

50. You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company. – Diane Von Furstenberg

#49 – 40. Acceptance Quotes

49. The acceptance of ‘Quantico’ so far has been really great. At the moment, I’m just straddling two continents far away from each other, with very active careers in both! – Priyanka Chopra

48. Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on. – Charlaine Harris

47. 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. – Arthur Gordon

46. The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you. – Stephanie Perkins

45. Accept life, and you must accept regret. – Henri Frederic Amiel

44. Everything begins with accepting oneself. Without self-acceptance, one cannot accomplish anything. – Xuan-Thu Nguyen

43. Acceptance doesn’t mean that life gets better; it just means that my way of living life on life’s terms improves. – Sharon E. Rainey

42. At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance. – Paul Tournier

41. The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. – Maureen Dowd

40. Social acceptance, ‘being liked,’ has so much power because it holds the feelings of loneliness at bay. – Rollo May

#39 – 30. Acceptance Quotes

39. The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. – Mahatma Gandhi

38. Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. – Brendan Francis

37. The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination. – Maurice Godelier

36. Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens. – Wayne Dyer

35. We must accept life for what it actually is — a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature. – Ida R. Wylie

34. Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end of a love or a season. – Robert Frost

33. Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons. – Jessica Lange

32. Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance. – Zachary Quinto

31. I’m not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it’s like relaxing into – and an acceptance of – things. – Tina Turner

30. When you stop living your life based on what others think of you real life begins. At that moment, you will finally see the door of self acceptance opened. – Shannon L. Alder

#29 – 20. Acceptance Quotes

29. Laugh at yourself, not with ridicule but with objectivity and acceptance of self. – C. W. Metcalf

28. 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

27. We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. – Carl Gustav Jung

26. I’ve learned that universal acceptance and appreciation is just an unrealistic goal. – Dan Brown

25. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

24. Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable. – Denis Waitley

23. To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. – Simone de Beauvoir

22. Acceptance does not mean that you placidly acquiesce to the myriad injustices that are all around you. In fact, that you are incensed about these injustices is the very reason you need to try your level best to ‘right’ these ‘wrongs.’ – Srikumar Rao

21. I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control, and at times hard to handle, but if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best. –  Marilyn Monroe

20. Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not. – Valery Satterwhite

#19 – 10. Acceptance Quotes

19. Gay rights and body acceptance are two things I feel very passionately about. – Mary Lambert

18. I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community. – Lady Gaga

17. Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else. – Andre Gide

16. Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints. – William Osler

15. The primary joy of life is acceptance, approval, the sense of appreciation and companionship of our human comrades. Many men do not understand that the need for fellowship is really as deep as the need for food, and so they go through life accepting many substitutes for genuine, warm, simple relatedness. – Joshua Loth Liebman

14. Self-acceptance comes from meeting life’s challenges vigorously. Don’t numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain from your life. You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory. – J. Donald Walters

13. Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, it is only time we have. – Art Buchwald

12. Die while alive and be thoroughly dead. Then do what you will, and all will be well. – Philip Kapleau

11. Body love is more than acceptance of self or the acceptance of the body. Body love is about self-worth in general. It’s more than our physical appearance. – Mary Lambert

10. Acceptance makes an incredible fertile soil for the seeds of change.- Steve Maraboli

#9 – 1. Acceptance Quotes

9. Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws. – Stuart Chase

8. History will never accept difficulties as an excuse. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy

7. Happiness can exist only in acceptance. – Denis De Rougamont

6. Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody’s business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy if anything can. – Thomas Merton

5. Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself. – Deborah Reber

4. One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly. – Albert Einstein

3. The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. – Alan Watts

2. Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. – James Baldwin

1. No one root is responsible for the existence of a tree. – Melanie MacSmiley

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