Quotes About Self-acceptance

I'm really happy to be me, and I'd like to think people like me more because I'm happy with myself and not because I refuse to conform to anything.

The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are - as women and as mothers.

When you're 5 ft. 5 in., have a round Jewish face and wear glasses and refuse to wear contacts, you're going to get offered certain parts. People thought of me as the nerdy guy, even in non-nerdy parts like 'Parenthood.' I didn't feel the need to change anything I was doing - I embraced it.

I refuse to let something as insignificant as a size or number on a scale determine how I feel about myself. I am grateful for my body, my health, and the life that I have, and no arbitrary number should have any impact on that.

With my physical self I refuse to beat myself up about things I can't change.

I've always refused to buy into the idea that I should look a certain way. People say I don't conform to the idea of what an actress should look like, but I am what I am and that's fine.

I knew I had a great figure, but I never regarded myself as beautiful.

I am not finicky at all regarding my appearance.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

I am who I am. I'm not living for anyone else, I'm doing things for me. Regardless of what I do, someone's going to have an opinion about something. And that goes for... no matter who you are.

Regardless of who your parents are, where you come from, or what you look like, you can embrace your flaws and be honest with yourself.

Regardless of if I'm a size 6 or 26 it's nobody's business and nobody has the right to body shame me or anyone else.

I never hated my father. I would have named my child Usher regardless. I never hated myself because I carried his name, because I made it mean what I wanted it to mean.

If I have to change for a character, I need really logical reasons to look a certain way. Otherwise, I have finally cracked the code in being comfortable in my own skin regardless of what's fed to you of how you must look.

I accept my body, whether it fluctuates 10 pounds. I love it regardless.

My biggest regret is putting my body through fad diets - Atkins, cleanses, the hCG diet.

I don't think I understand the concept of regret. Because if I regret anything, that would mean, like, I hate myself.

I don't regret anything, because I feel better every year, and if I'd done something different, maybe I wouldn't. I'm more of a whole person, the older I get.

I don't regret anything I've put out there.

Everyone is going to go through that phase of not liking their hair, but at the end of the day you're going to regret that you ever put relaxer or anything in your hair.

I don't regret having been fat at all.

It's just not in me to regret being me.

I have no regrets at all. I have done quite well for myself. I didn't have a conventional face, but I have done well, and I am proud of it.

I felt that I ostracized myself by my behavior, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking and regretting why did I make such a mistake? Why have I made so many mistakes?