Accepting Quotes

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.

We're not very accepting of people who act strangely.

We have come dangerously close to accepting the homeless situation as a problem that we just can't solve.

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.

Life is accepting what is and working from that.

I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess.

I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking.

I come from a very non-accepting family, but I'm very accepting.

Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be.

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

We really only came around to accepting and integrating the propositional dimension of identity into a concept of ourselves at the time of the American Revolution.

'Urban Renewal' was sweet because I've been - unfairly, I would say - plonked in the middle of the road because of a handful of songs. It came at a good time for me, because you do take a bit of a browbeating and, as you get older, you become better at accepting it and realizing why it happens.

Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People.

People should decide what success means for them, and not be distracted by accepting others' definitions of success.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

I'm accepting of who I am and how diverse I am and honoring that.

As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.

At the beginning, because the lives of the hostages were at stake, then during this silent period we have taken several measures like not accepting the ultimatum of the terrorists threatening to kill our foreign affairs minister.

It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.

Up to that point I never really knew what my character would be expected to do, and prior to accepting the job I had actually turned down the role three times before finally giving in.

Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it.

The users are not going to be in the position of accepting what's been collected; they're going to be in the position of being able to demand collection.

I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision.

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences.

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.

I hope to grow up and see myself accepting myself and accepting time going by and everything falls.