Quotes About Self-acceptance

I need to stay in the present and use that new-age mantra: 'I'm okay right now.' But I worry about all the things I'm failing at every moment.

I think my biggest learning experience is that it's okay to be who you are - you don't have to exactly fit the mold of what people think a certain kind of career is. I think that discovery - of really knowing who I am and being okay with that and loving myself - was amazing.

Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

I look back at myself, this innocent person, and I think, 'Gosh, she's okay.' I handled a lot, and I'm still here.

We all want love and to feel safe, wanted, cared for, to like our selves, our bodies, to have families and feel okay in the world.

It's okay to be yourself and to love and accept yourself however you are.

I guess I don't so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.

I don't colour my hair, and I look like the back end of a bus, so I get asked to play old people.

But a sense of - in old-fashioned speak - 'I am OK, I do deserve to be here, I can do what I want to do, I can be myself, I can express myself' is really important as you go into the working world.

The older I get, the more I embrace my own idiosyncrasies.

As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.

The older I get, the more I embrace who I am.

My heritage is really important to me. I've always had that olive complexion and the squished nose, and I just think it's important to do the best I can to be a good role model.

When I was 16, coming up through now at 24, it was so much I thought I had to change about myself. Especially after I won the Olympics.

When I was seven, these kids in the alley behind our house in Omaha called me Freckleface Strawberry. I hated my freckles, and I hated that name. I thought it was humiliating in the way that only a seven-year-old could hate it.

Growing up I felt like my nose was big. I was always like, 'I'm going to get a nose job one day'. I'm glad I didn't.

I laugh at it now, but one time I had an agent tell me I would never work in TV if I didn't get a nose job. People tell you to change yourself to fit into the L.A. scene, but the advice usually doesn't make any sense. The next agent told me my nose was great!

I'll never forget one time a fan came up to me crying, and told me, 'You really inspire me to be me. I feel OK to be myself now.'

As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

It's very unmanly to change yourself for others. Be comfortable with oneself. There have been feminist movements but there's never been a male one.

I don't have a lot of shame. That doesn't mean I can't feel bad about the way someone reacts to me or about something I read about myself online. But I don't have a lot of guilt, no. I've always been this way. I'm missing a chip.