I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.
Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.
It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it. They have decided that it is entirely right and proper for men to fight for their liberties and their rights, but that it is not right and proper for women to fight for theirs.
The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am.
I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.
Don't grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.
I look at the corruption in Albany and we cannot accept that.
I am ready to accept all accusations, allegations, anger - but I have to succeed.
If you're feeling intransigently ambivalent, it might pay to formally accept what's already happening - that is, decide not to decide.
I don't accept the status quo. I do accept Visa, MasterCard, or American Express.
What happens with any announcer when he comes into an area, if he stays four or five years and does a fairly decent job, people accept him and he becomes part of the family.
The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept.
I came to accept during my freshman year that many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I'd feared.
The Arabs are ready to accept a strong Israel with nuclear arms - all it has to do is open the gates of its fortress and make peace.
Israel was seen as having demonstrated unmistakably it wanted peace, and the reason it wasn't available, achievable was because Arafat wouldn't accept it.