Quotes on Accepting Yourself

I was once afraid of people saying, “Who does she think she is?” Now I have the courage to stand and say, “This is who I am.

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.

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.

Once you forgive yourself, the self-rejection in your mind is over. Self-acceptance begins, and the self-love will grow so strong that you will finally accept yourself just the way you are. That's the beginning of the free human. Forgiveness is the key.

It's all about knowing that everybody that you see, everybody that you sit across from is a different aspect of yourself. So once you can accept yourself on every level, that's when everything opens up, that's when the party really begins.

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.

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

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I had to grow to love my body. I did not have a good self-image at first. Finally it occurred to me, I'm either going to love me or hate me. And I chose to love myself. Then everything kind of sprung from there. Things that I thought weren't attractive became sexy. Confidence makes you sexy.

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.

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.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

The past is an illusion. You must learn to live in the present and accept yourself for what you are now. What you lack in flexibility and agility you must make up with knowledge and constant practice.

Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education, your culture.

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.