Quotes About Accepting Yourself

#1. [Monty] talks about Fritz Perls and the Gestalt theory. The here and now is the only time that exists. And being yourself. Not accepting yourself, not taking yourself for granted. Being yourself. Your self. Monty defines 'normality' as a contententment with who you are.

Antony Sher

#2. Beauty is about Accepting yourself for who you are. It's about feeling secure about yourself. It's about feeling so blessed everyday that we are given the chance to live. All those beautiful feeling and positive energy inside you, now that is what makes you beautiful.

Davina Veronica

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

Judith M Bardwick

#4. As I grow older, I put all life's bulls**t aside. I think the process of the laying off of the bulls**t starts around 40. Before that, most men have their heads stuck in their ass. After 40, you see things differently. You've found yourself. You're accepting yourself and what you got from life.

Dennis Quaid

#5. Accepting yourself is the first step toward improvement.

Ruth Cardello

#6. This show does something very special for the gay community. There's a message hidden inside the totally gaudy package that is so fun to watch. It's all about loving and accepting yourself, and every season I'm surprisingly moved by it.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

#7. There's no freedom like the freedom that comes from accepting yourself.

Camila Cabello

#8. Knowing who you are is half the peace of accepting yourself.

Christina Engela

#9. Self-assurance doesn't come from looking perfect and having a great title, but from accepting yourself with all you mistakes and eccentricities.

Cecelie Berry

#10. 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

#11. Don't compare yourself with someone else's version of happy or thin. Accepting yourself burns the most calories.

Caroline Rhea

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

Jane Roberts

#13. I'm a big believer in accepting yourself the way you are and not really worrying about it.

Jennifer Lawrence

#14. 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

#15. Next, feel your heart, literally placing your hand on your chest if you find that helpful. This is a way of accepting yourself just as you are in that moment, a way of saying, "This is my experience right now, and it's okay." Then go into the next moment without any agenda.

Pema Chodron

#16. I think one important thing that happens in the studio is accepting yourself as the enemy and painting from that point of view. So instead of pointing the finger outward and passing judgment, instead, you start with yourself as your own worst enemy.

Lisa Yuskavage

#17. You stop accepting yourself and stop connecting three realms of the triangle of awareness within you. You fail to realize that this is mistaken notion that "a lighter you is a happier you" isn't making you happier at all.

Scott Abel

#18. Accepting yourself as you are is an act of civil disobedience.

Francesca Martinez

#19. Acknowledging and accepting whatever stuff you may have to let go comes easier when you love yourself.

Darren Johnson

#20. Accept your own and be yourself!

Elijah Muhammad

#21. Stand strong in your worth and don't let anyone talk you out of it.

Mandy Hale

#22. Make it a principle for yourself to no longer accept negativity.

Tosca Reno

#23. Love is forgiving, accepting, moving on, embracing, and all encompassing. And if you're not doing that for yourself, you cannot do that with anyone else.

Steve Maraboli

#24. I am perfect, I love and accept myself as I am.

Avis J. Williams

#25. Are you able to open to the possibility that what you want is not what you need right now? If it was what you needed it would be in your life, right now, and it would come effortlessly.

Kelly Martin

#26. Don't worry yourself. It is better that you are cautious and safe than to be accepting and sorry. Trust must be earned. I hope I have now earned yours.

S.W. Lothian

#27. God can turn your biggest flaws into your biggest cause.

Mandy Hale

#28. We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God. We decide our own fate by our actions. You have to gain mystery over yourself. It is not a matter of sitting back and accepting.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#29. Balance comes from slowing down, from taking deep breaths, from understanding your body and what it needs. It comes from accepting who you are and loving yourself every step of the way.

Rachel Brathen

#30. Throw yourself into life as someone who makes a difference, accepting that you may not understand how or why.

Benjamin Zander

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

Louise Hay

#32. Self motivation leads to acceptance of thyself.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Grace Gealey

#34. Don't be so hard on yourself," I try to tell him. "It's nothing to be ashamed of." But he's not listening and I'm wondering when I became a motivational speaker. When I made the switch from hating myself to accepting myself. When it became okay for me to choose my own life.

Tahereh Mafi

#35. I think part of picking where you live in New York is accepting who you are. Really looking at yourself and going, 'Yeah, I'm not cool enough for the West Village.'

Tina Fey

#36. True meaning in life comes through understanding your own nature and learning to accept all aspects of yourself.

Kristine Carlson

#37. It's no good pacing up and down. It won't make the plane arrive any faster. Just sit down and accept that we're delayed. You're just making a fool of yourself.

Noel Coward

#38. You cannot ask someone to like you or love you more than you like or love yourself. YOU have to set the standard.

Mandy Hale

#39. ACCEPT PRAISE FOR ITS WORTH - POLITENESS. BE BRUTALLY FRANK WITH YOURSELF. IT'S SAFER.

Nellie Bly

#40. Don't condemn yourself - that only increases the hold of impurity. Accept your limitations but know that you're working towards changing them.

Frederick Lenz

#41. When you're younger, you tend to be reckless about trying to find out who you are and what you can do and should do. But as you get older you become more accepting of yourself, and with that comes greater contentment.

Elliot Perlman

#42. Accepting favors from fiends was so against the rules. Like potato chips, you couldn't stop at just one, then you'd find yourself at Hell's front door trying to explain why your soul had a big brand on it that said Property of Lucifer.

Jana Oliver

#43. 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

#44. Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment. It is part of the isness of the Now. You can't argue with what is. Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.

Eckhart Tolle

#45. Accept yourself. But realize your behaviors can be bad.

David D. Burns

#46. When you TRULY accept yourself, everyone else will do the same. Relationships "mirror" what we believe about ourselves.

Shannon Tanner

#47. Accepting that your imperfections and so-called negative attributes are part of what makes you unique will help you to stop continually trying to be someone or something that you are not.

Beverly Engel

#48. I'm not OK, you're not OK-and that's OK.

William Sloane Coffin

#49. Life cannot impose on you that which you aren't willing to accept. Don't let your emotions/feelings push you towards accepting less than what you truly deserve. Believe in yourself, be confident and stay focused. The best lies before and within you...it's all matter of your choice. Choose wisely!

Kemi Sogunle

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

Bruce Jenner

#51. Loving and accepting ourselves are the ultimate acts of courage. In a society that says, "Put yourself last," self-love and self-acceptance are almost revolutionary.

Brene Brown

#52. My mom was very much like 'Love your body, love yourself, run around naked ... ' Whatever we wanted to do, it was very accepting.

Tallulah Belle Willis

#53. When I hit my thirties, that's when I calmed down and I wasn't so tough on myself. I wasn't doing the yo-yo dieting any more. I gave myself a break. I think that, if you're more accepting of yourself, you're more free and open and can just allow more people in.

Nicole Scherzinger

#54. Self-love, self-esteem.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#55. Beauty is something inside of us. If you love yourself and accept yourself, that shows on the outside. Beauty is an act-it's how you carry yourself.

Gisele Bundchen

#56. The moment that you accept life and your life as it is, is the moment that you will start to change your life and this magical life itself.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#57. When you accept yourself, the Universe accepts you.

Laozi

#58. Never accept other people's limited perceptions of you. Define yourself. You can do anything.

Jeanette Jenkins

#59. Maybe it's NOT Maybelline. Maybe you were just born with it.

Mandy Hale

#60. You want society to accept you; but you can't even accept yourself.

Michael Fassbender

#61. I was interested in the narrative of how we nurture our elite in this society: all that stuff about believing in yourself and not accepting second best. Our inner world is at odds with that.

Lenny Abrahamson

#62. We can not paint that in a more positive way if it is already negative, we have to take it that way and think of other means for reaching there.

Auliq Ice

#63. In the end when you accept yourself for who you are and you work with what you've got, you couldn't be more beautiful because you're confident and everyone notices.

Lily Collins

#64. My greatest obstacle has to be accepting that the business that I chose to be part of is based on rejection and constantly trying to prove yourself. Letting go of seeing my accent and the way I speak as a limitation. Accepting it as who I am and where I came from.

Roselyn Sanchez

#65. So you're a little weird? Work it! A little different? OWN it! Better to be a nerd than one of the herd!

Mandy Hale

#66. To accept the truth of who you really are takes nothing short of realization. You have to see the diamond for yourself.

Dennis Merzel

#67. I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think, in essence, what you're doing is you're raping yourself really.

Karl Urban

#68. You can love other people only to the degree that you've come to love and accept yourself

Shakti Gawain

#69. Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepting the status quo and are finally yourself responsible for whatever the status quo does to you.

Annie Finch

#70. Concern yourself more with accepting responsibility than with assigning blame. Let the possibilities inspire you more than the obstacles discourage you.

Ralph Marston

#71. Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.

Tyra Banks

#72. Long-term marital intimacy requires accepting this truth: to stop giving yourself to your spouse is to spiritually divorce them.

Gary L. Thomas

#73. Don't hold yourself back because you're afraid or because you've been hurt ... acknowle dge your fear, accept it, and walk through it with confidence.

Iyanla Vanzant

#74. Happiness is not about hiding the past, it's accepting today and making it last, You should not fear who you have become, have pride in yourself for all you have done. Stand tall and be proud to be who you are, Release your fears and brighten your star.

Kylie Abecca

#75. It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant.

Jane Austen

#76. There is no other company in the world I've found more pleasurable than my own. For no one else has ever been as accepting of me or as thoroughly entertained by my quirkiness. It is a sweet thing to like yourself.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#77. You must welcome bounty whenever it comes, hunti man. It is often inconvenient. But if you insist on accepting it only when it suits your schedule, you will find yourself very poor.

Sharon Shinn

#78. You cannot spend your life wanting to be someone else, snipping off pieces of yourself you don't like, and suddenly expect, upon reaching a goal, to be confident, self-accepting, rooted like an oak tree in your being.

Geneen Roth

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

Nathaniel Branden

#80. It is necessary to put yourself out for rejection, and accept that you will be rejected.

Robert Genn

#81. Give yourself permission 2 evolve. Become a philosopher; come up with your own interpretation of life and stop accepting someone else's as your truth.

Germany Kent

#82. The degree to which you will awaken is in direct proportion to the amount of truth you are willing to accept about yourself.

Robert Anthony

#83. The sooner you be yourself, the happier you'll become.

Lisa M. Cronkhite

#84. 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

#85. The best thing you can do for yourself is to accept other people's behavior and the choices they make. You may not agree with them, you may even wish them to do things differently, but accept it. Just as you would appreciate other people accepting the choices that you make.

Jennifer O'Neill

#86. Confidence comes with maturity, being more accepting of yourself.

Nicole Scherzinger

#87. 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

#88. It's hard to accept yourself as someone you don't desire / As someone you don't want to be.

Laura Marling

#89. 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

#90. You will find it easier to accept contrary views, knowing that you are not defined by anything or anyone external to yourself.

Wayne Dyer

#91. Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.

Willard Scott

#92. You have to accept yourself, and you have to realize that you're beautiful.

Bethany Mota

#93. As soon as you accept the accidental effects, they are no longer accidents. They are necessity the part of yourself that you could not expect or design beforehand. Thus the realm of your creativity grows wider.

Kazuaki Tanahashi

#94. Once you accept you are being judged by people who have less knowledge than yourself, then what's it worth?

Marco Pierre White

#95. In life you have three options with any situation that is a challenge. Remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it.

Phil McGraw