Quotes: Acceptance

Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance.

Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed essential to the preservation of the rights of the States, or of the People.

The principal barrier to a general acceptance of the monist position is that it is counterintuitive.

Television is so influential that when an audience sees you day-in and day-out there’s a certain acceptance that sets in; you’re no longer a threatening personality. They become more willing to accept whatever you present.

I’m not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it’s like relaxing into – and an acceptance of – things.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

I’ve had a very good career and I’m grateful that the public has had some level of acceptance and appreciation of my work.

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.