Browsing Topic Best Acceptance Quotes

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Don’t ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance, or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

A hero is a man who does what he can.

My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don’t have to like it… it’s just easier if you do.

It’s not your job to like me – it’s mine

Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.

I think it’s important to remember that Christianity was based in love and tolerance and forgiveness and acceptance.

It is so much easier sometimes to sit down and be resigned than to rise up and be indignant.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

Only love expands intelligence. To live in love is to accept the other and the conditions of his existence as a source of richness, not as opposition, restriction, or limitation.

A positive self image and healthy self esteem is based on approval, acceptance and recognition from others; but also upon actual accomplishments, achievements and success upon the realistic self confidence which ensues.

Acceptance of one’s life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.

A man must live in the world and make the best of it, such as it is.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

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

As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.

I’ve finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?

Don’t accept that you can’t make a difference. Because if you can’t make a difference, you won’t make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway.

Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn’t more complicated that that. It is opening to or recieving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.

Love, no matter how you come at it, is a huge risk. It makes it easier for me to remember that God will never reject me because I am not good enough and that any community that has His heart will embrace me as I am. Jesus invites us into a community where imperfect people can find acceptance, love, forgiveness, and a new beginning.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.

Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?