People should decide what success means for them, and not be distracted by accepting others’ definitions of success.
There’s a certain grace in accepting what your life is and embracing all the good things that have been – but there’s still an expectation of good things to come. Not necessarily what you expected.
For me, love is not about froufrou New Age-ism. It’s about a way of living and honoring the interconnectedness of life and accepting our responsibility and our power to change the world for the better.
Ours is an open and accepting society, and has historically provided an avenue for lawful immigration to all those willing to accept the responsibilities of citizenship.
Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?
My parents are kind and accepting. Because so many of my friends were gay, it was just an accepted thing in my house. I was very lucky.
I begin my reign with profound emotion at the honour of accepting the Crown, aware of the responsibility it entails and with the greatest hope for the future of Spain.
As time goes by, we’re getting more accepting of the differences between one another – whether it’s gay or transgender, whether it’s black or white – but there’s still a lot of people in the world who don’t feel that they can express themselves as they want.
I think in order to accomplish anything in life, you have to visualize yourself there – accepting the award, hearing your song on the radio, whatever it is – or you lose the willpower and the drive.
America is behind Europe and Japan in terms of accepting adult ideas in animation.
I was fortunate enough to be raised by parents who were very accepting. They were never afraid to let me do my thing and let me live my life.
To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
I believe the best influence you can have is not by being preachy, but by trying to live. For example, knowing you’re not perfect, but trying to treat everyone kind and accepting everyone for who they are.
For some of my friends who raise personal objections to marriage equality, they still recognize the importance of being accepting. And many of them also recognize that regardless of what they choose to believe or practice at home or at their church, that doesn’t give them the right to discriminate.
I think the sooner that all of us in society stop accepting any type of bullying or harassment from other people – in spite of people’s social standing or net worth or whatever it is – the sooner it will stop.
Sometimes I ask myself if I’m accepting too many films.
The fashion industry really welcomed me with open arms and open hearts. They’ve been very accepting of my faith. I have strict wardrobe requirements, and that’s something they’ve upheld.
Those who support the death penalty are accepting a practice that is both ineffective and fundamentally flawed.
Improv Olympics, Second City are some of the most tolerant, accepting people. They’re like circus folk. They’re freaks themselves.
Australia is much more liberal in accepting de facto relationships than the U.S.
I put up a huge wall of denial. It was years before I was able to break through it… accepting that your child has a disability, especially one like LD that cannot be seen or easily diagnosed, is one of the hardest things to come to terms with.
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.
Accepting federal funding undermines state sovereignty as states become beholden to federal requirements in order to keep the money flowing.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
I’m an open book. People seem to like people that are very open – accepting, and not rude.
India has been a very accepting culture. We pride ourselves on that. That is a global truth. In fact, it forms a major theme in my books.
I don’t like accepting things at face value.
Sometimes true girl power means accepting that we are actually vulnerable and even powerless – then figuring out how to adapt and have our needs met in other ways.
As you might have gathered, I prefer the honest, decent and genuinely accepting friends and family I have in the conservative world.
I thought I was going to school to be other people, but really, what I learned was to be myself – accepting myself, my strengths and weaknesses.
We’re not very accepting of people who act strangely.
One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking.
For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big brother.
I’m not at the point of accepting it yet – but I will have to come to the point of accepting that people will doubt me forever.
I did a tour of Sweden with Eddie Izzard in our early days, and he said, ‘I’m thinking of talking about being a transvestite on stage. You should talk about being a Catholic.’ I said, ‘I think audiences will be more accepting of you being a transvestite than me being a Catholic.’
I always hate it when I see the wrong person in massive roles, so for me, my biggest fear would be accepting a role I thought I wouldn’t find the rhythm of.
Accepting that my time with Arsenal was over was difficult because I never imagined leaving.
My whole life has been about figuring out the balance between knowing who I am and being who I am and accepting that people will come to me with all sorts of preconceptions.
Sometimes, promoting economic development means accepting the Herculean task of moving and modernizing a prison.
I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.
The problem is never the audience, it has always been the distribution. The digital space is proof that the audience is quite accepting.
Pop culture or advertising doesn’t work perfectly. No one is watching and mindlessly accepting every part of the narrative or ideology.
Well, you can’t be trying to achieve success of any kind in this business without accepting that there’s going to be a flip side to it.
It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.
It’s really hard to argue that bitcoin doesn’t have many legitimate benefits to companies that are legal businesses when you have Dell and Expedia and all these companies now accepting it.
After a show over the summer, a girl came up to me who was a pastor at her church, which was not accepting of same-sex relationships. She said that ‘Same Love’ allowed her to come out regardless of the consequences.
It is okay to be an outsider, a recent arrival, new on the scene – and not just okay, but something to be thankful for… Because being an insider can so easily mean collapsing the horizons, can so easily mean accepting the presumptions of your province.
I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.
I’ve made it clear that I’m not taking special interest PAC money or accepting donations from lobbyists – ever. I want to represent the interests of the citizens.
Accepting that part of the process of writing is deleting a lot of what you write is soothing, at least to me.
Using a broad brushstroke, I think Libertarian – most of America are socially accepting and fiscally responsible. I’m in that category. I think, broadly speaking, that’s a Libertarian. A Libertarian is going to be somebody who’s really strong on civil liberties.
I said if you want me to go back to Afghanistan and work, I’m happy to do that. If you think accepting my resignation is best for the cause and for the nation, then I have no complaint with that.
We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
It is great that the industry is open to accepting character roles and moving away from the cliched Bollywood Hindi masala films.
Rivaldo was fundamental for me accepting the challenge in Bunyodkor.
Earlier in my career, there may have been compulsions for accepting films for money.
I had no work after ‘Gangster’ for two years, and my sister Rangoli met with an accident that destroyed her looks. My struggle with my parents combined with the industry not accepting me made me feel alienated.
Dove is encouraging people to set their own standards worldwide. To be their own unique selves. To not allow others to shame them for accepting their own bodies and styles.
There’s a need for accepting responsibility – for a person’s life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.
‘North by Northwest’ took two and a half to three months to film. When I look back, I realise I wasn’t intimidated by Hitchcock and Cary Grant. They were so accepting of me.
