Quotes About Self-acceptance

Do not wish to be anything but what you are.

Every man must at last accept himself for his portion, and learn to do his work with the tools and talents with which he has been endowed.

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

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.

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.

Learn to ... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves.

Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.

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.

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

It's OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.

Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

It is doubtless a vice to turn one's eyes inward too much, but I am my own comedy and tragedy.

As far as beauty is concerned, in order to be confident we must accept that the way we look and feel is our own responsibility.

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinion, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

Well-adjusted means you can make the same mistakes over and over again, and keep smiling.

Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them.

I'm a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

Dovoljan je sam sebi i potpuno zadovoljan onim što je i što zna?i u o?ima drugih ljudi. Sam nema potrebe da bude ili da izgleda ma šta drugo do ono što jeste, a niko od njega ne o?ekuje i ne traži ništa drugo.

When you feel unprotected, unsupported and unprepared to take care of yourself, your insides will feel if you have been through a train wreck. The best way to describe this experience is that you are having a head on body collision between your wannabe and your can never be.

Even though there is a part of me holding on to the belief that I am now, have always been, and will always be unworthy, I am still willing to love and accept myself.