Acceptance Quotes

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“There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us.”

-Robert Louis Stevenson

“In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.”

-Dalai Lama

“The price of the democratic way of life is a growing appreciation of people’s differences, not merely as tolerable, but as the essence of a rich and rewarding human experience.”

-Jerome Nathanson

“Tolerance comes with age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.”

-Goethe

“I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.”

-Paul McCartney

“If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships – the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.”

-Franklin D. Roosevelt

“We need not think alike to love alike.”
-Francis David

 

“We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.”
-Robert Fulghum

 

“My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.”
-Desmond Tutu

“It is not love that is blind; it is only the unnoticing eye that cannot see the real qualities of people.”
Charles H. Percy

“Don’t persuade, defend or interrupt. Be curious, be conversational, be real. And listen.”
— Elizabeth Lesser

“The best ideas emerge when very different perspectives meet.”
—Frans Johansson

“We should appreciate the beauty in the diversity. It would be a boring world, if every flower were the same shape, color, and size.”
-Muhammad Ali

“Surrender to what is, let go of what was, have faith in what will be. ”
—Sonia Ricotti

“We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.”
—Taylor Swift

“Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.”
—Jane Goodall

“I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.”
—Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (Lady Gaga)

“We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference.”

-Margaret Chase Smith

“I would never belong to a group that would accept someone like me as a member.”

-Groucho Marx

“Don’t stare.”

– Mom

“Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another’s beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing them.”

– Joshua L. Leibman

“Acceptance doesn’t mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there’s got to be a way through it.”

– Michael J. Fox

“Tolerance consists of seeing certain things with your heart instead of your eyes.”

-Orlando A. Battista

“Our similarities bring us to a common ground; our differences allow us to be fascinated by each other.”
-Tom Robbins

 

“A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.”
-Zen Shin

“The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.”
-Felix Mendelssohn

 

“Acceptance is simply love in practice. When you love, you accept, when you lack love, you judge.”
—Abhijit Naskar

 

“Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.”
—Stephen R. Covey

“Be curious, not judgmental. ”
—Walt Whitman

“As I get older, the more I stay focused on the acceptance of myself and others, and choose compassion over judgment and curiosity over fear.”
—Tracee Ellis Ross

“We judge what we don’t understand.” – Unknown

“Once we recognize the fact that every individual is a treasury of hidden and unsuspected qualities, our lives become richer, our judgment better, and our world is more right.”
-Charles H. Percy

 

“Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding, compassion and love.”
—Jane Goodall

“Genuine tolerance does not mean ignoring differences as if differences made no difference. Genuine tolerance means engaging differences within a bond of civility and respect.”
—Richard John Neuhaus

“Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they’re alive and human.”

-Albert Ellis

“The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.”

-Ralph W. Sockman

“Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.”

-Robert F. Kennedy

“Have a big enough heart to love unconditionally, and a broad enough mind to embrace the differences that make each of us unique.”

-D.B. Harrop

“I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.”

– Lady Gaga

“We all came in on different ships, but we’re all in the same boat now.”
-Martin Luther King, Jr

 

“Inclusion works to the advantage of everyone. We all have things to learn and we all have something to teach.”
-Helen Henderson

“Don’t judge me by my past. I don’t live there anymore.”
-Zig Ziglar

“I believe that we are here for each other, not against each other.”
—John Denver

“Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.

“If you look into someone’s face long enough, eventually you’re going to feel that you’re looking at yourself.”
— Paul Auster

 

“It is easier to reach our potential when we learn the value of including others in our quest.”
—John R. Wooden

 

“Being inclusive is having a human connection without placing judgments before it.”
—Sarah Greichen

“We can find common ground only by moving to higher ground.”
—Jim Wallis

“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”
-Audre Lorde

“I believe that the greatest kindness is acceptance.”
—Christina Baker Kline

“To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.”
—Bono