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Quotes About Acceptance

Some of their faults men readily admit, but others not so readily.
~ Epictetus
Ain't no man can outrun his fate.
~ Esi Edugyan
The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool.
~ Euripides
The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The man who can accept defeat and take his salary without feeling guilty is a thief.
~ George Allen
There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.
~ George Santayana
I don't mind dating younger men now.
~ Jackee Harry
I date older men, and I date younger men. I have no rules about that.
~ Mary Frann
Talented men are not threatened by talented women. They welcome them. And same way with real men.
~ Amy Poehler
Young men and women come of age when they look at their parents and see them not only as their parents but as people. They gain a lot of compassion, and it's easier to accept their flaws.
~ Benjamin Alire Saenz
They are mad men (Jews), but you should not burn them for that.
~ Voltaire
In life, man proposes, God disposes.
~ Aldous Huxley
I think everybody has the ability to fall in love with a man or with a woman or a white person or a black person or a Jewish person or a Protestant person or whatever.
~ Ally Sheedy
It is going to take a very brave man to love me.
~ Amanda Holden
You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.
~ Anne Carson
I understood that the man I was calling for could never ever come back. Because I understood that the man that I was calling for was dead.
~ Anne Lamott
If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o'-the-wisps of the imagination.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
As a woman, you accept the situation, adapt to it, and do your best, whereas men would choose violence.
~ Asne Seierstad
I'd like to meet a lovely man who shares my interests. On the other hand, I possibly will not. It's part of the hand you're dealt. It's a challenge-and I'm not atypical.
~ Barbara Feldon
You can't please everybody, man.
~ Beck
Assumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now ... based on acceptance of patriarchal notions of masculinity.
~ bell hooks
The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.
~ Ben Jonson
Madness ends sometimes. The Gods decree it, not man.
~ Bernard Cornwell
No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness.
~ Bertrand Russell