Quotes about Acceptance
God wishes us to work gently, calmly, and lovingly with Him, asking Him to accept our work. By this continual attention to God, we will "resist the devil and cause him to flee" (James 4:7).
— Brother Lawrence
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
— Bruce Lee
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.
— Bruce Lee
You cannot force the Now. — But can you neither condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on? You can never invite the wind, but you must leave the window open.
— Bruce Lee
Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.
— Bruce Lee
In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.
— Bruce Lee
Acceptance of death. — The round of summer and winter becomes a blessing the moment we give up the fantasy of eternal spring.
— Bruce Lee
Do not run away; let go. Do not seek, for it will come when least expected.
— Bruce Lee
Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don't believe it also.
— Herman Melville
Ain't one limb enough?
— Herman Melville
Queequeg no care what god made him shark,' said the savage, agonizingly lifting his hand up and down; wedder Fejee god or Nantucket god; but de god wat made shark must be one dam Ingin.
— Herman Melville
As a young person, I wanted everyone to agree with me.
— Henry Rollins