Quotes About Self-acceptance

praise seems unable to enter me.

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

It really doesn't bother me," she said. "I've always thought it stupid to try to hide your age, or to pretend to be younger than you are. Denying your age is like denying your life.

No one can prove you dumb except yourself!

I may not be perfect, but parts of me are excellent

I don't think of myself as hot or cool or anything, just a dork.

Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.

You are your own judge. The verdict is up to you.

Life would move on with or without me, and I didn't need to change myself in order to be beautiful, or happy, or worthly of love. I already was.

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.

Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.

We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.

You have to look at yourself objectively. Analyze yourself like an instrument. You have to be absolutely frank with yourself. Face your handicaps, don't try to hide them. Instead, develop something else.

You got to be right with yourself before you can be right with anybody else.

I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.

Don't compare yourself with others. We are all different, living different lives.

A patient man is one who can put up with himself.

Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.

I'm very comfortable with how I look. I always have been. I think I look pretty good. There's nothing I want to change. I'm pretty happy with what I've got.

Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be.

i dont want to be compared to britney,ashlee,hilary or lindsay. i want to be compared to me.

Why should I care what other people think or me? I am who I am and that's who I wanna be.

You like me for who i am, you don't like me for who i am, and all you can get is who i am.

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.