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"A sound American is simply one who has put out of his mind all doubts and questionings, and who accepts instantly, and as incontrovertible gospel, the whole body of official doctrine of his day, whatever it may be and no matter how often it may change. The instant he challenges it, no matter how timorously and academically, he ceases by that much to be a loyal and creditable citizen of the republic."
Henry Louis Mencken
"Accept good advice gracefully--as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place."
Gene Brown
"Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can--and surely will at times--fail. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk."
Dr. Joyce
"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."
Marcus Aelius Aurelius
"Accept your genius and say what you think."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."
William James
"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
"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 Lee Frost
"Always accept good fortune with grace and humility."
Mark L. Mika
"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 Lee Frost
"Any acceptance of authority is the very denial of truth."
Jiddu Krishnamurti
"As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it."
Dick Cavett
"Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control."
Allen Ginsberg
"Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Character--the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life--is the source from which self-respect springs."
Joan Didion
"Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self."
Erich Fromm
"Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts."
Edward R(oscoe) Murrow
"Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful."
Ann Landers
"Everything in life changes you in some way. Even the smallest things. If you do not accept these changes you do not accept yourself. For through these changes brings new and greater things to you, making you wiser, as time progresses. To avoid these changes is a loss. You only live your life once. Do not waste a minute of it avoiding things. Let them come to you, and learn from them. There is always tomorrow."
Adam R. Gwizdala
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