Quotes About Acceptance

That's exactly the problem. Everyone's convinced that their lives are over just because their hearts stopped beating.

The wisest of men know that to render an insult powerless, you often need only to embrace it.

A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no one will listen to them." Elend

Ain't nothing wrong with being a woman, gancho," Lopen said. "Some of my relatives are women.

Love can't change the realities of our situation." "No, but it can change people.

Okay, I could deal with this. I could accept this. Deal with this, brain!

He gritted his teeth, frustrated with himself, but there was nothing he could do about years past. Perhaps he could change the future.

hard times make people willing to accept a man who preaches change.

Get better. Learn to accept that sometimes what you feel isn't invalid, but that it doesn't mean you have to act according to those feelings either.

That's where we belong, not in those caverns. The kids who make fun of you, they're trapped on this rock. Their heads are heads of rock, their hearts set upon rock. Set your sights on something higher. Something more grand.

There was no correcting past mistakes, especially since he could see no real 'mistakes' he had made. He had done the best he could, and that had proven insufficient.

Spin, you'll die." "Yes," I whispered. "But I'll win anyway.

Elend sat still in a room full of men who trusted him, even as they rejected him.

Nobody will think I'm weird, and I won't get into trouble for fighting because my job will be fighting. They won't call me names, and everyone will love me.

The truth is not a downer," Abraham said in his lightly accented voice. "The lies that you pretend to accept are the true downer.

New tastes are like new ideas, young man - the older you get, the more difficult they are for you to stomach.

Do not be so hard on the child. She is a product of her upbringing, just as you are. If you judge her worth based on frivolities, then you are doing the same as those who judge you based on your simple clothing.

She'd felt … comfortable with Elend. Looking back on the experience, she realized that for those few moments, she hadn't really been Lady Valette. Nor had she been Vin, for that part of her—the timid crewmember—was almost as fake as Valette was. No, she'd simply been … whoever she was.

That didn't stop the world from ending, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

At the heart of science is accepting only that truth which can be proven. At the heart of faith is define Truth, at its core, as being unprovable.

I accept that there will be those I cannot protect.

There are some things you can't hide from, Vin. I know—I've tried." She

I'll do what I can, make the decisions as I see they must be made, Elend thought. Then accept the consequences.

The world seemed quite willing to accept misunderstood artists, misunderstood thieves, and even peasants who dreamed of royalty. But nobody knew what to do with a misunderstood philologist. Other than run him out of town for bringing the dragons down on them.