Quotes About Acceptance

You can accept what is in the present moment even while working to change it.

I used to beat myself up everyday if I did not win an event. I am quite open about those things now and that has been a big change.

Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read.

Refined indifference is a sports psychology precept: train like there's no tomorrow and then accept whatever happens. Once you step on the field realize that whatever is meant to be is meant to be.

I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates.

I would prefer chess to become part of the Olympic Games. This would also lead to chess become more accepted as a sport in general.

I don't even have moderately big breasticles. They just look like - well, nevermind what they look like. At least they stay strapped down when I worm into a sports bra.

I'd like to thank everyone who voted for me. And the one guy who didn't vote for me, thank you, too.

If Jesus was here, do you think Jesus would show me any love? Do you think Jesus would love me?

I played team sports, but I never felt like I fitted in that well, so this allowed me to be part of a community but to do it in my own way.

I was always a self-proclaimed poor slider.

Enduring means accepting. Accepting things as they are and not as you would wish them to be, and then looking ahead, not behind.

In Gym, the kids on my team learned not to pass me the ball and to step quickly in front of me if the other team tried to take advantage of my weakness. I happily stayed out of their way.

Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.

Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.

Surrendering is not a weakness. At the contrary it is strength. The surrender stops living in boiling water and starts living in a secure place.

Either grant me the bliss of the ignorant or give me the strength to bear the knowledge.

We must relearn how to cry. A strong man cries; it is the weak man who holds back his tears.

You can never be free until you develop the mental strength to stop fretting over things you cannot control.

Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don't have far to go, either.

God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.

It takes strength to be proud of yourself and to accept yourself when you know that you have something out of the ordinary about you.