I refuse to accept anything less than 100% of what I can achieve.
I work hard, do my best and send it out to the world hoping that people can relate to it. I accept any reaction and hope they think it is worth reading.
The combination of extremist ideology, a warped understanding of reality and nuclear weapons is a combination that no-one in the international community can accept.
As you get older, you accept that there are some tunnels that don't have any light in them, but you go down them anyway.
I'm a fan of the truth. . . even if it's painfully hard to accept.
Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.
. . . Never tell a ticket agent, "As a matter of fact, I DID accept items from persons unknown to me! A nice man in a chadar gave me this awesome luggage freshener with a clock attached!" Federal regulations require them to have no idea you're joking as they riddle your body with bullets.
But I had promised my husband never to accept another engagement. It was not a very happy time for me.
First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies.
More people should apologize, and more people should accept apologies when sincerely made.
When top executives get huge pay hikes at the same time as middle-level and hourly workers lose their jobs and retirement savings, or have to accept negligible pay raises and cuts in health and pension benefits, company morale plummets. I hear it all the time from employees: This company, they say, is being run only for the benefit of the people at the top. So why should we put in extra effort, commit extra hours, take on extra responsibilities? We'll do the minimum, even cut corners. This is often the death knell of a company.
You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And now they're coming for your Social Security money. They want your f**kin' retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street.
I accept the people's will. As a revolutionary, I have no right to disregard the will of the people.
Never accept evil as something you must walk with, something you deserve.
It is more often from pride than from defective understanding that people oppose established opinions: they find the best places taken in the good party and are reluctant to accept inferior ones.
She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
I want to be the best. So whatever comes with that, I have to accept it.
Sometimes, you get no second chance and that its best to accept the gifts the world offers you.
Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.