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Acceptance Quotes


These are some of the best 'Acceptance' quotations and sayings.


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A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.

A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.

A man must live in the world and make the best of it, such as it is.

A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that.

A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it.

A wise man never refuses anything to necessity.

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.

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

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

Against necessity, against its strength, no one can fight and win.

All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.

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.

An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up, the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and leaning with the gusts of wind. But the oak stood firm and was torn up by the roots.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

As the soft yield of water cleaves obstinate stone, So to yield with life solves the insolvable: To yield, I have learned, is to come back again.

Ask not that events should happen as you will, but let your will be that events should happen as they do, and you shall have peace.

Better is the enemy of the good.


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