Top 58 Self Accepting Quotes
#1. Group nudity could also be personally beneficial, according to psychologist Abraham M. Maslow, who believed that nudist camps or parks might be places where people can emerge from hiding behind their clothes and armor, and become more self-accepting, revealing, and honest.
Gay Talese
#2. 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
#3. Self-discipline will never make us feel righteous or clean; accepting God's love will.
Donald Miller
#4. The "Warrior Ethos" emphasizes placing the mission first, not accepting defeat, and being disciplined physically and mentally. Why? Because an American Soldier is a "guardian of freedom and the American way of life.
Dan Smee
#5. The role of the therapist is to reflect the being/accepting self that was never allowed to be in the borderline.
Michael Adzema
#6. Positive self-esteem is the quality of simply saying thank you and accepting any value that is attributed to you by others.
Denis Waitley
#8. What I'm starting to realize is that when you conform, people are not accepting you for who you are. They're accepting you for who they think you are.
Kaiylah Muhammad
#9. Humility is understanding gratefulness oppose to self-praise & accepting envy as the answer to your actions of excellence.
Ace Antonio Hall
#10. Self-reliance - that's a dirty word to Democrats. They want people to believe that self-reliance means you don't do anything with anybody. They don't want it thought of as accepting responsibility for one's life. Enterprise. Imagination. Independence. Entrepreneurism.
Rush Limbaugh
#11. It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#12. Happiness isn't about pretending there's no pain. It's about accepting the pain as a part of healing and doing your best to nurse your own wounds with love and patience.
Vironika Tugaleva
#13. I am less and less a creature of influences in myself which operate beyond my ken in the realms of the unconscious. I am increasingly an architect of self. I am free to will and choose. I can, through accepting my individuality, my 'isness,' become more of my uniqueness, more of my potentiality.
Carl R. Rogers
#14. Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.
Abraham Maslow
#15. Stand strong in your worth and don't let anyone talk you out of it.
Mandy Hale
#16. Self-care means accepting some risk, and accepting much responsibility. It is not for all people or all cases.
Andrew Saul
#17. Acknowledging and accepting whatever stuff you may have to let go comes easier when you love yourself.
Darren Johnson
#18. Accepting someone else's negative opinion as your truth is like self-mutilation to your own soul
Latorria Freeman
#19. It is not giving up, it is accepting. And the light will enter. Always does.
Kamal Ravikant
#20. 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
#21. I mean, what do you think creativity is? Nothing but self-indulgence. And the more self-indulgent it is, the more interesting it becomes. So I think that part of creativity is also falling in love with your own narcissism: accepting it, using it as an asset.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#22. Don't wish that people would change. Accept them for who they are and keep on searching for your higher 'self
Matthew Donnelly
#24. Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?
Saint Bernard
#25. 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
#26. I am a financial planner, not a psychiatrist, but I do know that your net worth will rise to meet your self-worth only if your self-worth rises to accept what can be yours.
Suze Orman
#27. 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
#28. Happiness is a function of accepting what is. Love is a function of communication. Health is a function of participation. Self expression is a function of responsibility.
Werner Erhard
#29. The basis of everything in the wizards' world rests upon the insight "All this is myself." Therefore, in accepting the world as it is, the wizard views everything in the light of self-acceptance, which is the light of love.
Deepak Chopra
#30. 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
#32. 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
#33. [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
#34. The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.
Bette Davis
#35. Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.
Tyra Banks
#36. The creator made us creative. Our creativity is our gift from God. Our use of it is our gift to God. Accepting this bargain is the beginning of true self-acceptance.
Julia Cameron
#37. Suffering is normal. Pain is normal, it is part of life ... What is its texture, the weight of our suffering? What is its meaning? Begin by touching it, by coming close to it, accepting it: Hello, suffering, I am here with you. I am beside you, one with you, I am you. I am suffering.
A.M. Homes
#38. 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
#39. Its not easy taking your own advice, accepting what you don't like hearing, & seeing the grey amongst the black & white.
April Mae Monterrosa
#40. By accepting life before it happens, and letting go of your inner resistance to all things you cannot change, you unlock true emotional freedom from all of your self-imposed emotional pain.
Hal Elrod
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. The key to liberation is within. - Each man binds himself; the fetters are ignorance, laziness, preoccupation with self, and fear. He must liberate himself, while accepting the fact that we are of this world, so that "In summer we sweat; in winter we shiver.
Bruce Lee
#44. Maybe it's NOT Maybelline. Maybe you were just born with it.
Mandy Hale
#45. Love is accepting your truest, most authentic expression of self, and allowing yourself to do the same with others.
Grace Gealey
#46. Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow; Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor within; the former raged against him.
Brennan Manning
#47. The road to enlightenment requires a life dedicated to self-study, accepting the minor tragedies of life as an ineluctable part of the human condition.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#48. This was all of it, no doubt, the strange passing feeling that had come to me in the boat. Age. Vanity. The impossibility of accepting the new versions of oneself that life kept offering. The impossibility of the old version's vanishing.
Sue Miller
#49. Stop wasting so much energy hating your body; it makes you weaker. Everything good in your life begins from the moment you begin accepting, understanding, respecting, and loving your true self.
Harry Papas
#50. Accepting that a person will die and shucking off any aversion to this blunt thought awakens the mind to realize what is possible in a human life.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#51. The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#52. Peacefully and lovingly accepting who we are today requires honestly looking at our past.
Rob Martin
#53. To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who you are.
Amity Gaige
#54. Overly playing the role of the victim can debar you from accepting responsibility for your actions and emotions.
Stephen Richards
#55. As a psychotherapist I see that nothing does as much for an individual's self-esteem as becoming aware of and accepting disowned parts of the self. The, first steps of healing and growth are awareness and acceptance - consciousness and integration. They are the fountainhead of personal development.
Nathaniel Branden
#56. 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
#58. 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
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