Self Acceptance Quotes

True, lasting peace comes not through stamping out the ignorance of others, but through cultivating acceptance with ourselves.

Its not the falling down that counts but what you do next that counts the most. Don't spend your time on your needs if you have fallen, instead get up and dust your knees clean and walk!

What would happen if you stopped fighting, and gave yourself permission to feel? Not just the good things, but everything?

It has long been my motto that if you cannot get your act together... then the very least you can do is try to make your act entertaining.

The peak of happiness is attained when a person has accepted to be what he is.

Always look at the function, its not what you did but why do you do it? Once you find the why then you walk through another door

POPPY: Another man might have pressured me to change, mature, maybe even shut up occasionally. Emmett finds me perfect the way I am.

The highest degree of human attainment comes when a person is blissfully at peace with his or her own nature and the natural world.

Self acceptance is pure power.

It's hard to remember who you were when you're constantly pretending to be someone you're not.

If you are not yourself, you have nothing to offer the world but a cheap imitation of someone else.

You can succeed if nobody else believes it but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself.

Everybody wants to do something to help but nobody wants to be first.

It is not easy to be a pioneer-but oh it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment even the worst moment for all the riches in the world.

Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you.

Every man stamps his value on himself ... man is made great or small by his own will.

Let us not forget that among [women's] rights is the right to speak freely.

Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may he will only feel satisfaction as he is satisfied in himself.

The widening of woman's sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it and if the world scoff let it scoff-if it sneer let it sneer.

When people say: she's got everything I've only one answer: I haven't had tomorrow.

Cuteness in children is totally an adult perspective. The children themselves are unaware that the quality exists let alone its desirability until the reactions of grown-ups inform them.

It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of but my own.

Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men whatever they say about you good or bad you are not because of it another man for as you are you are.

In my business you measure your respect by the enemies you make.

We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken made verbal and shared even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.

As soon as you trust yourself you will know how to live.

He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping.

You can enjoy encouragement coming from outside but you cannot need for it to come from outside.

Next to God we are indebted to women first for life itself and then for making it worth living.

The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs but our mothers were Nightingales.

No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.

Blessed is he who expects no gratitude for he shall not be disappointed.

When you know you are doing your very best within the circumstances of your existence applaud yourself!

To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections.

To succeed is nothing-it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

Imagination was given to us to compensate for what we are not a sense of humor was provided to console us for what we are.

To love others we must first learn to love ourselves.

A man needs self-acceptance or he can't live with himself he needs self-criticism or others can't live with him.

We should try to bring to any power what we have as women. We will destroy it all if we try to imitate that absolutely unfeeling driving ambition that we have seen coming at us across the desk.

Healthy personalities accept themselves not in any self-idolizing way but in the sense that they see themselves as persons who are worth giving to another and worthy to receive from another.

Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing other people a favor and vice versa.

Interest in the lives of others the high evaluation of these lives what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds in himself the value he attributes to his own being?

The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there- you build yourself. Those are the high ones the thick ones the ones with no doors in.

No matter what age you are or what your circumstances might be you are special and you still have something unique to offer. Your life because of who you are has meaning.

A sobering thought: what if right at this very moment I am living up to my full potential?

Don't try to teach a whole course in one lesson.

I long to see everything to know everything to learn everything!

At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand know the exact number of his defects and qualities. ... And above all accept these things.