I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

— Michael Jordan

I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.

— Marco Rubio

I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.

— J. K. Simmons

I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.

— Harold Pinter

I like to accept it all, the negative and the positive.

— Alek Wek

It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.

— Wangari Maathai

I've come to accept that the life of a front-runner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental.

— Pele

I was willing to accept what I couldn't change.

— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Japanese people accept that art and commerce will be blended; and, in fact, they are surprised by the rigid and pretentious Western hierarchy of 'high art.'

— Takashi Murakami

Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.

— Christopher Reeve