Browsing Topic Best Self Acceptance Quotes

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.

Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

Love yourself. Accept yourself. Forgive yourself and be good to yourself because, without you, the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.

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

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

At the end of the day, remind yourself that you did the best you could today, and that is good enough.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

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

You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.

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

Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.

I don’t have to be perfect. All I have to do is show up and enjoy the messy, imperfect, and beautiful journey of my life.

You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.

With self-acceptance, we have the ability to choose compassion and forgiveness over anger and self-hatred.

Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect. When we don’t have that, we shape-shift and turn into chameleons; we hustle for the worthiness we already possess.

One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world — making the most of one’s best.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.

Forgive yourself. The supreme act of forgiveness is when you can forgive yourself for all the wounds you’ve created in your own life. Forgiveness is an act of self-love. When you forgive yourself, self-acceptance begins and self-love grows.

If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you’ll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren’t even giving to yourself.

Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.

Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the God of grace.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

Change is possible, but it must start with self-acceptance.

Attempts to help humans eliminate all self-ratings and views self-esteem as a self-defeating concept that encourages them to make conditional evaluations of self. Instead, it teaches people unconditional self-acceptance.

Believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic.

The attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in their long-term recovery.

Belonging is the innate human desire to be part of something larger than us. Because this yearning is so primal, we often try to acquire it by fitting in and by seeking approval, which are not only hollow substitutes for belonging, but often barriers to it. Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

To increase your level of self acceptance, think of your unique talents and abilities.

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.