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If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. -- John D. Rockefeller
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened. -- George S. Patton
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
Irrational beliefs are culturally accepted delusions. -- Robert Todd Carroll
Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed. -- Dean Acheson
Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Business as usual will not be accepted by any part of this city. -- Harold Washington
Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true. -- Paracelsus
Accepted that we all are human resources, but we are humans first and resources later. -- Rutvik Oza
When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process. -- Dave Pelzer
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. -- Bertrand Russell
I never accepted the idea that I had to be guided by some pattern or blueprint. -- Little Richard
Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted. -- Robert Collier
I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make. -- Michelle Shocked
One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I would gladly have accepted a heaping spoonful of nepotism when I got out of college and was looking for a job. -- Sloane Crosley
No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable. -- Ferdinand Mount
Accepted in Christ, we now run the race 'for the joy that is set before us' rather than 'for fear that comes behind us'. -- Timothy Keller
In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not. -- Marya Mannes
When I first was conducting as guest conductor in Europe 25 years ago, I would propose doing American pieces and grudgingly it would be accepted from time to time. -- Michael Tilson Thomas
I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. -- Erica Jong
In Germany air became generally accepted Berlin in this area. It operated with 45 airplanes within the Low Cost range from Germany, and is one the most successful carriers in Europe. -- Niki Lauda
However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition. -- Helen Dunmore
In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans, they don't have a bad deli. There's no mediocrity accepted. -- Mario Batali
And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your fields and you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief. -- Khalil Gibran
The only way to store information is by agreement. The belief system is like a Book of Law that rules our mind. Our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive. Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believe they should be. We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves. -- Miguel Angel Ruiz
It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide. -- Desiderius Erasmus
Yes, one can repent of moral transgression. The miracle of forgiveness is real, and true repentance is accepted of the Lord. -- Ezra Taft Benson
You just need to be accepted for who you are and be proud of who you are and that is what I'm trying to do. -- Lewis Hamilton
The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention. -- Octavio Paz
We are more likely to cheat if we see others doing so. We tend to conform to accepted norms of reasonable behaviour, rather than adhere to strict rules. -- Evan Davis
When I began in 1960, individuality wasn't an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There's room for intuition. -- Jane Goodall
It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism. -- Mark Rothko
'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves. -- Sandra Cisneros
I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner. -- Arthur Ashe
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.
I've always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin' my thing, my own way. And it's been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life. -- Dolly Parton
I'm secure in who I am. I don't need the validation of those that would say, you have to be a certain thing in order to be accepted. I'm comfortable going against the grain if I need to. -- J. C. Watts
Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
In Seattle, I soon found that my radical ideas and aesthetic explorations - ideas and explorations that in Richmond, Virginia, might have gotten me stoned to death with hush puppies - were not only accepted but occasionally applauded. -- Tom Robbins
Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores? -- George Sand
I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate. -- John Adams
Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped. -- Charles Stanley
I flunked my exam for university two times before I was accepted by what was considered my city's worst university, Hangzhou Teachers University. I was studying to be a high school English teacher. In my university, I was elected student chairman and later became chairman of the city's Students Federation. -- Jack Ma
I take the view that anything you can do to relieve suffering or improve human health will usually be widely accepted by the public - that is to say, if cloning actually turned out to be solving some problems and was useful to people, I think it would be accepted. -- John Gurdon
Being yourself is one of the hardest things because it's scary. You always wonder whether you'll be accepted for who you really are. I decided to call my record 'Inside Out' because that's my motto about life. I don't think you ever succeed at trying to be anyone else but who you truly are. -- Emmy Rossum
Growing up, I was a target. Speaking the right way, standing the right way, holding your wrist the right way. Every day was a test, and there were a thousand ways to fail, a thousand ways to betray yourself, to not live up to someone else's standards of what was accepted, of what was normal. -- Wentworth Miller
It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take his own life first. In fact, this act has been encouraged for centuries, and is accepted even now as an honorable reason to do the deed. How is it any different when you are under attack by your own mind? -- Emilie Autumn
Repentance is accepted remorse. -- Sophie Swetchine
Repentance is accepted remorse." -- Sophie Swetchine
Teamwork was more accepted 40 years ago. -- Ken Olsen
Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction. -- Edward Teller
Shame must be accepted to be effective. -- Seth Godin
Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper. -- Alistair Cooke
Change often makes accepted customs into crimes. -- Mason Cooley
Breaking accepted rules does bring people together. -- Theodore Zeldin
For the love of country they accepted death. -- James A. Garfield
Someday change will be accepted as life itself. -- Shirley MacLaine
I got accepted at Yale but never went. -- Shia LaBeouf
I applied to Uncyclopedia Bassists, and was accepted!! -- Eddie Van Halen
I've definitely accepted the fact that I'm not normal. -- Becky G
Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted. -- Joseph Conrad
We need a universally accepted definition of reserves reporting. -- Fatih Birol
Never, ever, have I felt really accepted in Hollywood. -- Sally Field
I received my calling and accepted it at around 18. -- Michael Eric Dyson
Nothing can be repaired or advanced but only accepted -- Hanif Kureishi
When you are not accepted, dare to be exceptional. -- Johnnie Dent Jr.
I feel strongly for gay marriage to be accepted. -- Bernadette Peters
History engineered if the facts couldn't be generally accepted. -- Toba Beta
The accepted versions of the Bible are all substantially correct. -- William Bell
Nothing has to be accepted just because we inherited it. -- Deepak Chopra
Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement. -- Seneca the Younger
Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms. -- Anthony Storr
A theory accepted by 99 percent of scientists may be wrong. -- Tom Bethell
At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice. -- Philip Yancey
Ruined land was accepted as the collateral damage of progress. -- Robin Wall Kimmerer
Suffering, if it is accepted together, borne together, is joy. -- Mother Teresa
Darwin himself recorded the fact that he accepted the Malthusian idea. -- Trofim Lysenko
Change what cannot be accepted and accept what cannot be changed. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
There's kind of wisdom that must be firstly rejected before accepted. -- Toba Beta
I needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act. -- Gene Tierney
Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured. -- David Mitchell
The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. -- Ayn Rand
I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough? -- George Bernard Shaw
But she never just accepted me for the way I was. -- Julie Anne Peters
I've always accepted some kind of deity, especially as a songwriter. -- Neil Diamond
There's no accepted global policy on what to do about asteroid impacts. -- Rusty Schweickart
It's very advanced of you to have accepted my mortality so fatalistically. -- Cassandra Clare
Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it. -- Pablo Casals
All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted. -- Janet Erskine Stuart
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms. -- Gloria Steinem
The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California. -- Gavin Newsom
The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears. -- Adyashanti
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind. -- Bruce Lee
On the last day, Chelsea made a great proposal and I accepted. -- Robinho
Ah, if you knew what peace there is in an accepted sorrow! -- Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story's fate. -- P. L. Travers
If you repeat a lie often enough it becomes accepted as truth. -- Joseph Goebbels
Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s -- Parker Stevenson
As the universe accepted our show, more people began to accept me. -- Jai Rodriguez
Once you've accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you. -- George R. R. Martin
I'm accepted by God and it has nothing to do with me. -- Matt Chandler
A code of values accepted by choice is a code of morality. -- Ayn Rand
I'm very proud this show has been accepted for this length of time. -- Robert Stack
A Government protected by foreigners will never be accepted by a free people. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The idea of narcissism, essentially, is and will be accepted as a virtue. -- Nicolas Winding Refn
My gayness became quietly accepted and, shock of all shocks, life went on. -- Lance Loud
Only when women rebel against patriarchal standards does female muscle become more accepted. -- Gloria Steinem
Elegance is accepted and admired because it makes no effort to be elegant. -- Paulo Coelho
Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living. -- Agatha Christie
Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted. -- Ugo Betti
As soon as an idea is accepted it is time to reject it. -- Holbrook Jackson
To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence -- Billy Corgan
Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice. -- Shoshana Zuboff
But I accepted that because God gave me other qualities and I'm grateful. -- Jean Chretien
I accept no principles of physics which are not also accepted in mathematics. -- Rene Descartes
Life is made up of challenges that cannot be solved but only accepted. -- Roger Ebert
You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. -- Bindi Irwin
I have decided on my destiny; accepted by calling as writing for God. -- Lailah Gifty Akita

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