Quotes About Self-acceptance

I don't need celebrity friends. I don't need new friends. I am what I am.

I'm not the next Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps.

I've always kind of been the guy next door who just happens to fight for a living. I tried to figure out what was special and marketable about me early on in my career and I realized that there's absolutely nothing special about me, so I wanted that.

Not everyone looks like Brad Pitt. There are people in the world that look like me. I think people feel that I could be living next door to them. That has much more effect on me.

It's easy to be critical of ourselves and other women around us. We stand in front of the mirror and only focus on the things we hate about our body and our appearance. But I encourage you to change that attitude the next time you are in front of the mirror.

I am a nice person. I'll put that out there.

I never held myself as a nice person for most of my life.

It took me years to separate Nick Foles the person from Nick Foles the football player.

I don't have a nickname and I'm not looking for one.

I'm grounded in who I am, and I am a confident black man. A confident, Nigerian, black, chocolate man. I'm proud of my heritage, and no man can take that away from me.

My philosophy is that there is no point in being sad or hating who you are.

There's a lot of things you can't change about yourself, so there's no point moaning about it. I mean, I've got a really nonsymmetrical face, but I can't change it - well, I probably could, actually!

There's no pressure on me to be a particular weight. But I loathe being renowned as a 'larger' model. It makes me cringe.

I have no problem saying I am 50.

I am a feminist and I have no problems being called that.

People are trying to act like they're balling all day with cars, their house, like there's no problems. I feel like a lot of people are trying to be someone they're not, and when you're just yourself, life is so much easier because you don't have to keep up this facade.

Pasara lo que pasara, se concedería otra oportunidad. Una oportunidad justa, sin importarle lo que dijeran los demás" "Quizá por eso, cuando hablo con mi madre, siempre tengo la impresión de que hay un abismo entre las dos

This thing about looking for someone less different... It only really worked, he realized, if you were convinced that being you wasn't so bad in the first place.

We can't go on apologizing all our lives, you know.

I want to be a well-rounded human being with none of these knotty lumps of rage and guilt and self-disgust.

This thing about looking for someone less different… It only really worked, he realized, if you were convinced that being you wasn't so bad in the first place.

I've reached the age where bruises are formed from failures within rather than accidents without.

I've just gone through so much in my life that pulling my top up just doesn't seem like that big of a deal.

The main advantage about being over thirty is you no longer have to pretend you have a date on Friday night or even, lo and behold, that you want one. You can now easily say to yourself, I hope no one wants to ask me to do anything because I am so looking forward to a hot tub and a midnight snack.