God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

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.

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

Now is the accepted time.

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.