Quotes About Self-acceptance

I've got to be happy with myself when this ride is over.

I am who I am, and I can't change that. It's not something I've labored over.

I want to be liked; I just haven't lost sleep over it.

Being body positive is really important to your overall happiness. It's hard to see someone with a 'perfect' body and be like, 'Why can't I be like her?' But that person was born to be who she is, and you're born to be who you are.

I'm very ambitious. But my overall goal, above ambition, is that I want to be happy with what I'm doing, and I want to be happy with myself.

I think I finally overcame my self-esteem and confidence issues at around 20.

Weight was a big thing for me to overcome.

I had to overcome the name Rock. If I'd been as hip then as I am now, I would have never consented to be named Rock.

As Miss Universe, you have to be confident in who you are. Miss Universe has to overcome her fears and teach others to do the same. And nothing is ever too much to ask for. That is exactly who I am.

I'm not overconfident. It's just that I'm not caught up in that. What will be will be. The die is cast. I can't be anybody but me.

I'm not overly focused on being loved by everybody.

I'm not an overly ambitious person; I don't feel like I have to excel.

I am fine with the fact that some of my hair is gray. If it was all gray overnight, that would be a scary thing.

It was always important to me to be confident and strong with myself. It didn't happen overnight, but I've learned that the only way you can start to control things is if you feel a certain way about yourself.

For someone to say I am overweight is completely ridiculous.

I've always been an overweight girl, and I've never had an issue with that. I'm very comfortable with my body.

When I was overweight, people called me cute.

I lost weight to be healthy, not for any other reason. I never felt bad about being overweight, but I did start to feel tired and out of breath and I knew I needed to do something.

The key to being a warrior is not to be afraid of who you are.

Look. What use is there pretending to be what you are not? You and me and your little brother, we're the only three Indians in a school filled with two thousand white middle-class kids. We can't let them walk all over us.

In the meantime, she is the one today among us most able to bear the idea of her own beauty, and when we see it, what we do is natural: we take our burned hands out of our pockets, and clap.

My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can't despise my whole life.

In being, there is no becoming, no attachment to a goal. I see that I no longer have to achieve any standard or behave in a certain way in order to become worthy.

The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.