Acceptance Quotes

These acceptance quotes will tell you a lot about finding peace with the way things are. 

I know you’ll like them:

1) No person can like all, or be liked by all. -German Proverb

2) We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns. -Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924)

3) Don’t be sad, don’t be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief; your time for joy will come, believe me. -Aleksandr Pushkin

4) Man was made for joy and woe; And when this we rightly know, Through the world we safely go. -William Blake (1757-1827)

5) Trouble will come soon enough, and when he does come receive him as pleasantly as possible. The more amiably you greet him, the sooner he will go away. -Artemus Ward

6) The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambitions. -Marquis De Vauvenargues (1715-1747)

7) Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there’s all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens. -Arthur Gordon

8 ) We must accept life for what it actually is — a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature. -Ida R. Wylie

9) What it is forbidden to be put right becomes lighter by acceptance. -Horace (65-8B.C.)

10) Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778)

11) I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed, but the spirit in which we face them, that constitutes our comfort. -Elizabeth T. King

12) Acceptance of others, their looks, their behaviors, their beliefs, bring you an inner peace and tranquility…instead of anger and resentment. -Unknown

13) Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand. -Baruch Benedict de Spinoza (1632-1677)

14) To get what we want, we must accept some things we don’t want. No rose without a thorn. -French Proverb

15) Buddha’s doctrine: Man suffers because of his craving to possess and keep forever things which are essentially impermanent…this frustration of the desire to possess is the immediate cause of suffering. -Alan W. Watts (1915-1973)

16) One’s first step in wisdom is to question everything; one’s last is to come to terms with everything. -Georg C. Lichtenberg (1742-1799)

17) If you cast away one cross, you will certainly find another, and perhaps a heavier. -Thomas a Kempis (1379-1471)

18) The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown. -Carl Jung (1875-1961)

19) Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent as to what becomes of it all and you will find not only that you gain a perfect inward relief, but often also, in addition, the particular goods you sincerely thought you were renouncing. -William James (1842-1910)

20) I will not meddle with that which I cannot mend. -Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)

21) The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is, who find the least fault. -Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900)

Which of these quotes did you like the most?  What did you learn about “accepting” from these quotes? 

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