Acceptance Quotes

Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it.

Kathleen Casey Theisen

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

Carl Gustav Jung

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

Nathaniel Branden

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

William James

Our entire life consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Jean Anouilh

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

C. G. Jung

Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance.

Unknown

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

Katherine Mansfield

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

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Brendan Francis

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

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

James Baldwin

Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything, you are you and that is the beginning and the end -- no apologies, no regrets.

Clark Moustakas

Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it.

Kathleen Casey Theisen

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

Aristotle

Acceptance. It is the true thing everyone longs for. The one thing everyone craves. To walk in a room and to be greeted by everyone with hugs and smiles. And in that small passing moment, you truly know you're loved, needed, and accepted.

Rena Harmon

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Denis De Rougamont

Accept your genius and say what you think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.

Moses Ben Maimon Maimonides

Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Accept good advice gracefully--as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.