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Acceptance Quotes

Acceptance is something we all need to understand and, well… accept. Working in the Data and Information management industry, we’ve all had to deal with it, whether we’re the one accepting or asking others to do so.

How do you find that these quotes relate to your role in Data Governance?

Acceptance Quotes

Accept life, and you must accept regret.

– Henri Frederic Amiel

Accept your genius and say what you think.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything begins with accepting oneself. Without self-acceptance, one cannot accomplish anything.

– Xuan-Thu Nguyen

Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.

– James Baldwin

History will never accept difficulties as an excuse.

– John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

– Honore de Balzac

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

– Brendan Francis

Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there’s all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.

– Arthur Gordon

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

– Maureen Dowd

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. 

– Martin Luther King, Jr.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

– Salvador Dalí

We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.

– Harry S. Truman

Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, it is only time we have.

– Art Buchwald

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