Quotes About Accepting Others

#1. As long as we're rejecting ourselves and causing harm to our bodies and minds, there's no point in talking about loving and accepting others.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#2. Recovery is not about being right; it's about allowing ourselves to be who we are and accepting others as they are.

Melody Beattie

#3. People should decide what success means for them, and not be distracted by accepting others' definitions of success.

Tony Levin

#4. Accepting others' life choices is something most people only learn with age.

Neil Strauss

#5. I learned that accepting others and accepting myself are two sides of the same coin; you can't love and accept yourself without doing the same for others.

Steve Pavlina

#6. The more you learn the biology behind your every action, emotion and behavior, the better you become at accepting others the way they are.

Abhijit Naskar

#7. The slow, the never ending approach to truth consists in perpetually forming and testing hypotheses, accepting those at which at the time seem to fit the facts and rejecting the others.

James G. Frazer

#8. It is time to return to core values, time to get back to basics, to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for the others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family - and not shuffling it off on other people and the state.

John Major

#9. Ladies, part of loving your mate is accepting him exactly as he is!

Pamela Cummins

#10. Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.

Sarah Dessen

#11. Loving others is easy when you love and accept yourself.

Louise Hay

#12. I think our need to be loved is so great that it's the thing that damages us the most. I think that's something we can find in any person, though some people are more in tune with it or accepting of it or have moved past it and dealt with it or have a healthier thought process about it than others.

Kristen Stewart

#13. I and others on FIFA executive committee agreed to accept bribes in conjunction with selection of South Africa as host nation.

Bryan Swanson

#14. Positive self-esteem is the quality of simply saying thank you and accepting any value that is attributed to you by others.

Denis Waitley

#15. In fully accepting your creative power, you honor and respect your soul and remind others to do the same.

Sonia Choquette

#16. Parentified children learn to take responsibility for themselves and others early on. They tend to fade into the woodwork and let others take center stage. This extends into adulthood - adult children may put others' needs before their own. They may have difficulty accepting care and attention.

Kimberlee Roth

#17. Love is accepting your truest, most authentic expression of self, and allowing yourself to do the same with others.

Grace Gealey

#18. You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love & affection.

Gautama Buddha

#19. When others, out of Jealousy,
Mistreat me with abuse, slander, and so on,
I will practice accepting defeat
And offering the victory to them.

Christopher Titmuss

#20. If men can learn to be less defensive, more open to others, and more accepting of accountability, they will adapt well to the new global economy.

John Gerzema

#21. By accepting yourself and being fully what you are, your presence can make others happy.

Jane Roberts

#22. Forgiveness is accepting someone's faults with love and kindness.

Debasish Mridha

#23. Knowledge is power. Power in the aspect of making your own mind up;and, not accepting what others tell you.

Temitope Owosela

#24. To live ... in any sense of the word ... is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence.

Emile M. Cioran

#25. Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us.

Stephen Covey

#26. The only true disability is the inability to accept and respect differences.

Tanya Masse

#27. [The blame for the future 'plight of civilization] must rest on scientific men, equally with others, for being incapable of accepting the responsibility for the profound social upheavals which their own work primarily has brought about in human relationships.

Frederick Soddy

#28. Your own pain is involuntary; you feel overwhelmed and have no control. When feeling the pain of others, there is an element of discomfort, but there also is a level of stability because you are voluntarily accepting pain. It gives you a sense of confidence.

Dalai Lama

#29. The less harshly we judge ourselves, the more accepting we become of others.

Harold H. Bloomfield

#30. Accepting the rule that others want us to play is fine, as long as we're fine with it.

Art Hochberg

#31. Blessings will never cease to shower upon those who mind their own life with humility of accepting mistakes versus those who find joy in judging others to divert attention from their miserable lives.

Gloria D. Gonsalves

#32. I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework for life that others have given me, if I fail to make my own choices, the reason for my life will be missing. I will be unable to recognize that which I have the power to change.

Liv Ullmann

#33. Maturity is developed by respecting others and accepting responsibility for violating that respect.

Wes Fesler

#34. When you accept yourself you are free from the need for others to accept you.

Bruce Jenner

#35. There have been times in my life I prayed for change.

For rescue.

For strength.

For answers.

There have been times in my life I blamed others for everything that went wrong, bypassing accepting responsibility, because it was easier.

Kim Holden

#36. Real confidence comes from knowing and accepting yourself- your strengths and your limitations -in contrast to depending on affirmation from others.

Judith M Bardwick

#37. I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life.

Alison Goodman

#38. We can passively take our place in the negative chain, accepting the harm to ourselves and passing it on to others. Or we can break the chain and turn the energy of a destructive emotion into a constructive action.

Laura Archera Huxley

#39. When people are not accepting toward themselves they
are often obsessed with acceptance by others.

Nathaniel Branden

#40. Accepting responsibility for the actions of others contributes to your own greatness.

Edwin Louis Cole

#41. Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball, although you may show fortitude or those other qualities while you do it.

Gregg Easterbrook

#42. There are 2 sorts of pride: one in which we approve others, the other in which we cannot accept ourselves.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#43. I am prepared to accept from others their own version of reality. I think it is a basic freedom really, to create one's own reality from whatever truths are available.

Josephine Hart

#44. Love made room for conflict. It allowed for the expression of more than one view and invited the paradox that disagreement was vital to harmony. Love required accepting and meant changing oneself rather than demanding change of others.

Jo Goodman

#45. Accepting what others see as your strengths is crucial to your continued growth. Compliments are a gift. They are an opportunity for you and another person to connect in a powerful, positive way. How did you handle the last compliment directed at you? Did you accept it?

Rhonda Britten

#46. What do I mean by loving ourselves properly? I mean first of all, desiring to live, accepting life as a very great gift and a great good, not because of what it gives us, but because of what it enables us to give to others.

Thomas Merton

#47. We can only accept friendship from others to the degree that we give it to ourselves.

Kimberly Kirberger

#48. By accepting what the external structures have told us we need to do, we have given the power of our realities and ourselves to others. It is time to tell a new story for women, and that can only start with women.

Zainab Salbi

#49. Accepting the key premise that the learner is the primary customer of schooling means others follow naturally ... The core business of schooling is learning, and the quality of learning experienced by all learners should be the standard against which performance is measured.

David Hood

#50. But then it occured to him that any progress he had made on his quest so far he had made by accepting the help that had been offered to him.

Neil Gaiman

#51. Recognizing your talents doesn't mean believing they're limitless. Accepting your strengths doesn't lead to pride, but instead to humility; you're less likely to resent what others have if you understand your own bounty.

Gina Barreca

#52. Leadership is about taking charge and influencing others to follow your vision. It's about going against the odds and accepting responsibility for the outcomes along the way

Robin Crow

#53. Self-confidence is not pride. Just the contrary: only a person or a nation that is self-confident, in the best sense of the word, is capable of listening to others, accepting them as equals, forgiving its enemies and regretting its own guilt.

Vaclav Havel

#54. It is very difficult to accept in others emotions you cannot accept in yourself.

Nathaniel Branden

#55. When you are so ashamed of your actions, thoughts, or intentions, you lie rather than accepting yourself for who you really are - or, in this case, pretend something happened when it didn't. The idea of how others see you becomes more important than the reality of you.

Michael J. Sullivan

#56. When this low self-worth is hidden, one can understand why the person becomes hypersensitive to the opinions of others and has a great deal of difficulty accepting criticism no matter how warranted or gently said.

David W. Earle

#57. We can struggle with what is. We can judge and blame others or ourselves. Or we can accept what cannot be changed. Peace comes from an honorable and open heart accepting what is true. Do we want to remain stuck? Or to release the fearful sense of self and rest kindly where we are?

Jack Kornfield

#58. One must accept the fact that others don't see what you do.

Louise Bourgeois

#59. I have heard that this pain can be converted, as it were, by accepting "the fundamental impermanence of all things." This acceptance bewilders me: sometimes it seems an act of will; at others, of surrender.

Maggie Nelson

#60. Until we accept and approve of ourselves, no amount of approval from others will keep us permanently secure.

Joyce Meyer

#61. It is only by loving others that we can learn to live; living is rare nowadays ... most people survive; that is all.

Sandra Chami Kassis

#62. You are free to create your own paradigms instead of simply accepting those presented to you by others.

Russell Eric Dobda

#63. You will never learn anything new unless you are ready to accept yourself with your limitations. You must accept the fact that you are capable in some directions and limited in others, and you must develop your capabilities.

Bruce Lee

#64. Wanting to live, but accepting death to save others: that was courage. That was to be Gansey's greatness.

Maggie Stiefvater

#65. The true key, if you want to live an unstoppable life, then you need to take 100% control of your life. Stop blaming others for your failures and faults and start accepting responsibility for your life.

Thomas Narofsky

#66. If we accord importance to the kind of portraits which surround us, it is because we fashion our lives according to their example, accepting aspects of ourselves if they concur with what others mention of themselves.

Alain De Botton

#67. Accept and acknowledge your own brilliance. Stop waiting for others to tell you how great you are! Believe it for yourself and about yourself.

Iyanla Vanzant

#68. Having no expectations for some people in your life can be depressing, if not devastating. But with others, it's what is necessary. The hard part is not just figuring out which one applies, but accepting it.

Sarah Dessen

#69. Understanding and accepting diversity enables us to see that each of us is needed.. It also enables us to begin to think about being abandoned to the strengths of others, of admitting that we cannot know or do everything.

Max De Pree