Quotes About Acceptance

Weakness is something we don't like to admit we have. We hold it against people, until we experience it, and then we feel more compassion for it.

When you know you're vulnerable, and you know... your strength and your weakness, you can see life with better perspective.

Sometimes you have to embrace weakness.

To show weakness, we're told in sports, is to deserve shame. But showing weakness, addressing your mental health, is strength.

In the past, I have assumed the word 'vulnerability' equates with the word 'weakness' and 'This Is Us' shows us that it is in fact the opposite.

The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared.

As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future.

It's hard to let new stuff in. And whether that admits a weakness, I don't know.

Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.

I remember 'vulnerability' being an unattractive word for most of my life, and I resented it as a direction coming from a director just because it implied weakness so I get the job. But it is that humbling place that creates compassion.

Kids will pick up on weakness, and I was very shy growing up. I was skinny and flat-chested; I didn't have the latest clothes. For me, it was about being left out and not having any friends and being laughed at. I was very lonely, but that happens to so many people.

People with disabilities can grow up thinking they have a weakness because they are told,You will never do this properly; you will never walk properly or talk properly.' That's all they hear. But you have to look past that.

I wish everybody in the world liked me, but a lot of them don't. That's because my whatever - my weakness, my vulnerability, my ego, whatever it is.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them.

Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.

In Australia, we point out a person's weaknesses as a way of saying 'I see you and I accept you'. If you do that with Americans, they instantly take offence.

The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.

Of all the things I could know, my own faults and weaknesses are pretty much the most important.

Cultists do not want to admit they have been manipulated by charisma. Nigerian money scheme victims do not want to accept that they had been swindled. To accept those realities is to accept their own faults. Denial of our own weaknesses is something we all suffer from time to time.

We all can relate to people's weaknesses. We might put up a facade that everything is perfect but none of us are. When we see that weakness in somebody else, we understand or give ourselves a little bit of leeway.

I gotta say, I know my strengths, and I know my weaknesses, and, well, Fix-It Felix, I'm not too far from that kid.

We're all human; we all have weaknesses.

I think what happened is I learned my strengths, but more importantly, I learned to embrace my weaknesses.