To accept the truth of who you really are takes nothing short of realization. You have to see the diamond for yourself.
If you take a tube TV to a donation center, they won't accept it.
Accepting evolution does not force us to jettison our morals and ethics, and rejecting evolution does not ensure their constancy.
I should do something about the cigarettes; I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.
These long chains of perfectly simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to carry out their most difficult demonstrations had led me to fancy that everything that can fall under human knowledge forms a similar sequence; and that so long as we avoid accepting as true what is not so, and always preserve the right order of deduction of one thing from another, there can be nothing too remote to be reached in the end, or to well hidden to be discovered.
If you accept failure as learning, it's not discouraging to keep adapting until you find success.
In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev's willingness to accept Kennedy's hegemonic demands.
America's strength is that it is capable of accepting people into its communities.
She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules; Charms by accepting, by submitting, sways, Yet has her humor most, when she obeys.
You shouldn’t blindly accept a leader’s advice. You’ve got to question leaders on occasion.
Accepting that the world is full of uncertainty and ambiguity does not and should not stop people from being pretty sure about a lot of things.
You've got to keep your finger on the pulse of what your audience is thinking, and know what they'll accept from you.
If we have to prove our Europeanism by accepting that French is the dominant language in the Community, then my answer is quite clear, and I will say it in French in order to prevent any misunderstanding: Non, merci beaucoup.
The greatest folly is to accept expert statements uncritically. At the very least, we should always seek another opinion.
Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.
That's what I mean by radical truth. I mean accepting reality.
It is better to protest than to accept injustice.
If you accept all the praise, you have to accept all the critics.
If you would have peace, genuine peace, you must accept all the aspects of your personality and learn to be comfortable with them.
What is there possibly left for us to be afraid of, after we have dealt face to face with death and not embraced it? Once I accept the existence of dying as a life process, who can ever have power over me again?