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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.

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

Acceptance is different than apathy. It is important to strive to be your best self, your healthiest, most productive, joyful self. But that is going to be a different answer to everyone.

— Teri Hatcher

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I've learned that universal acceptance and appreciation is just an unrealistic goal.

— Dan Brown

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

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

— W. Somerset Maugham

My whole journey has been about self-acceptance.

— Jordin Sparks

When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process.

— Dave Pelzer

Acceptance does not mean that you placidly acquiesce to the myriad injustices that are all around you. In fact, that you are incensed about these injustices is the very reason you need to try your level best to 'right' these 'wrongs.'

— Srikumar Rao

✗Opposing Perspectives

You're going to have more rejection than acceptance.

— Barry Mann