I just always knew I wanted to be an actor. I gave my Emmy acceptance speech when I was 11. But, I wasn't allowed to do plays and things like that. It was considered dangerous. My parents didn't think it was safe for a girl to do that, and they definitely didn't think it was interesting to participate in the arts.

- Azita Ghanizada

There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.

- Cesar Chavez

Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.

- CeeLo Green

You're going to have more rejection than acceptance.

- Barry Mann

One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.

- Baz Luhrmann

In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.

- Bryant H. McGill

Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.

- Bruce Springsteen

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

- Brian Tracy

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance.

- Brene Brown

I feel like decades ago it was either you're black, white, Asian or Hispanic, or whatever, but today we see more of an acceptance for people with multi-nationalities.

- Annie Ilonzeh

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 need we have for information is great, and we get it from many admirable sources. The need we have for understanding and acceptance is much greater. The arts are uniquely able to help us meet the greater needs.

- Agnes Gund

This sounds crazy, but my goal is to be nominated for an Oscar. I was the kid who was practicing my acceptance speech when I was ten.

- Ashley Benson

The period from 2001 to 2005 was really tough. My films were not working even though there was an acceptance of a model. I was depressed but did not cry. I cry when I am happy.

- Arjun Rampal

My first letter of acceptance, to UMass - Amherst, came with an offer of a fellowship and a note from John Edgar Wideman.

- Alexander Chee

LaGuardia High School is a place of acceptance. You have every type of kid there, performing. The outcast girl would not have been made fun of in my high school.

- Ansel Elgort

What I've observed and what I've imagined - and definitely what I'm hoping - happens as you get older is that there's a mellowing, an acceptance that comes with time. I guess that I'll find out.

- Anne Hathaway

I do think that something of the effect I have on people is to put everything on an edge where they're both infatuated with a kind of charmingness happening in the person or in the writing, and also flatly terrified by a revelation or acceptance of revelation that's almost happening, never quite totally happening.

- Anne Carson

I feel blessed and humbled that people have loved my music. Nothing would be possible without their acceptance.

- A. R. Rahman

Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

- Anatole France