Definition of Accepting

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To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
Mark Twain

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
George Orwell

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.
Newt Gingrich

I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

There is no place, no country, more compassionate more generous more accepting and more welcoming than the United States of America.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.
Brian Tracy

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.
George Eliot

Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.
Abraham Maslow

Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.
Charles Spurgeon

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.
Bette Davis

To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.
Auguste Rodin

Relations between black and white would be greatly improved if we were more accepting of our fears and our feelings and more vocal about it.
Sarah Silverman

I come from a very non-accepting family, but I'm very accepting.
Katy Perry

Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our "accepting" and "willing" are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God.
Aiden Wilson Tozer

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
Thucydides

I'm not good at accepting help.
Patricia Heaton

When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to that.
Patricia Heaton

The nation's government has just handed me the bill that grants us our civil rights. I am receiving it before you, certain that I am accepting this on behalf of all Argentinean women, and I can feel my hands tremble with joy as they grasp the laurel proclaiming victory.
Evita Peron

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.
M. Scott Peck

To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
Peter Ustinov

What are you accepting that would not be a part of your ideal day?
Alan Cohen

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
Zhuangzi

Kinsey's quest was really for us all to be tolerant and accepting of each other.
Liam Neeson

The thing that got me over the hump was accepting that I had to do whatever I could to stay in the game.
Dennis Eckersley

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.
Neal Boortz

I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults.
Natalie Portman

'Urban Renewal' was sweet because I've been - unfairly, I would say - plonked in the middle of the road because of a handful of songs. It came at a good time for me, because you do take a bit of a browbeating and, as you get older, you become better at accepting it and realizing why it happens.
Phil Collins

Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
Jean Anouilh

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Accepting Translations

accepting in German is akzeptierend, zusagend
accepting in Swedish is accepterar

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