Self Acceptance Quotes

Once I looked in the mirror and decided this is who I am, and I'm not scared of who I am, and I'm not scared that I can't be like you, and I'm good with just doing me, that's when I found myself, as a man.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Pretty Women Wonder Where My Secret Lies, Im Not Cute Or Built To Fit A Fashion Models Size.

I do not concern myself with being unique, and I do not concern myself with success. I feel I just do and say what I am supposed to. I do not know where it comes from. I go where I am told, and I just allow whatever it is to come out.

Maybe you're not meant to fit in. maybe you're supposed to stand out.

Just being born makes you worthy enough to be here

Be proud to be out of your mind and out of control.

Resist the temptation to compare yourself to others. This is crucial in order to be able to manifest whatever you want.

And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.

I wish I could say I coined the phrase "failing forward." I do it all the time. I find as I've embraced this approach to business, life, cycling and generally any new endeavor I take on, I've grown more and more comfortable with the possibility that I am not likely to succeed on my first try. And that's ok.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. There is nothing more satisfying than that sense of being completely "at home" in your own skin. When you achieve that as a natural state of "being", then you can finally look beyond yourself and fully contribute all your talents to the world.

Today you are you! That is truer than true!

If they don't like you for being yourself, be yourself even more.

I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware, I sit content, And if each and all be aware, I sit content.

There is someone that I love even though I don't approve of what he does. There is someone I accept though some of his thoughts and actions revolt me. There is someone I forgive though he hurts the people I love the most. That person is......me.

Self worth cannot be verfied by others

I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.

If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.

I appreciate all that I am and all that I have. Stop focusing on what you do not have, and shift your consciousness to an appreciation for all that you are and all that you do have.

Nothing, in all of the Universe is more delicious than to be in this physical body allowing the fullness that is you to be present in the moment.

Being desirable means being comfortable with your own ambiguity. The most ambiguous reality is that we are flesh and spirit at the same time. Within everyone there is light and shadow, good and evil, love and hate. In order to be truthful, you must embrace your total being. A person who exhibits both positive and negative qualities, strengths and weaknesses is not flawed, but complete.

Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!

Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures.

As long as I continue to hear 'normal' people telling me I am too childish, I know I'm doing just fine.

The pathway to your best life isn't the route of denial. It's owning every moment.

In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.

You can't go around being what everyone wants you to be, living your life through other people's rules, and expect to be happy and have inner peace.

You are not here to prove worthiness. You are here to extend the creation, creator, creating that you are.

I don't want to be the next Michael Jordan, I only want to be Kobe Bryant.

It just was a gradual development over the years. I mean last year was 'all you need is love.' This year, it's 'all you need is love and peace, baby.' Give peace a chance, and remember Love. The only hope for us is peace. Violence begets violence. You can have peace as soon as you like if we all pull together. You're all geniuses, and you're all beautiful. You don't need anyone to tell you who you are. You are what you are. Get out there and get peace, think peace, and live peace and breathe peace, and you'll get it as soon as you like.

So you know how things stand. Now forget what they think of you. Be satisfied if you can live the rest of your life, however short, as your nature demands. Focus on that, and don't let anything distract you. You've wandered all over and finally realized that you never found what you were after: how to live. Not in syllogisms, not in money, or fame, or self-indulgence. Nowhere.

Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.

If a person is confident enough in the way they feel, whether it's an art form or whether it's just in life, it comes off---you don't have anything to prove; you can just be who you are.

When you realize no one else on this earth can be like you... that no other soul may know the beauty, sorrow, light and darkness you alone are given to see... then you will, at last, be the fearless individual your Heart of hearts has called you to be.

You can't enjoy your life if you don't enjoy YOURSELF.

I never have thought I was beautiful and I never can get beautiful enough. I'm always doing whatever I can to look as good as I can, nipping and tucking if necessary. When you're older, you probably look more bizarre to people. But I don't care. I'm just totally convinced that it's more important that I be happy with me.

I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It is likely that such a very liberal amount of space was given to the organ which enables me to make promises that the organ which should enable me to keep them was crowded out. But I grieve not. I like no half-way things. I had rather have one faculty nobly developed than two faculties of mere ordinary capacity.

You have to be happy with who you are and the choices you make. If you don't like yourself, you'll never be truly happy.

I have my own identity ... The whole Michael thing does drive me nuts sometimes because people won't leave it alone. He's bald, I have hair. He's almost 40, I'm 22. Seriously though, I wish people would let it be and let me just be Kobe.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now.

Only by owning who and what you are can you step into the fullness of life.

Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good.

You're not perfect, but you're not your mistakes.

Say to Yourself when Someone Else is Criticizing U, 'What U Think of Me is None of My Business'

You look at yourself and you accept yourself for who you are, and once you accept yourself for who you are you become a better person.

Remind yourself that you cannot fail at being yourself.

He must understand that if he is the world's finest plum and someone he loves does not like plums, he has the choice of becoming a banana. But he must be warned that if he chooses to become a banana, he will be a second rate banana. But he can always be the best plum.

I had no idea how to get guys to notice me. I still don't. Who cares?

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

A Wasn’t just isn't. He just isn't present. But you… You ARE YOU! And, now isn't that pleasant!

We all grow older and we all have to live with ourselves.

Know yourself, like yourself, be yourself.

Don't you know your imperfections is a wonderful blessing, from heaven is where you got it from

There's only, like, five perfectly symmetrical people in the world, and they're all movie stars, and they should be, because their faces are very pleasing to look at, but the rest of us are just a jangle of stuff, and the earlier you learn that you should focus on what you have and not obsess about what you don't have, the happier you will be.

A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.

For the first time the sun kissed my own naked face and my soul was inflamed with love for the sun, and I wanted my masks no more. And as if in a trance I cried, "Blessed, blessed are the thieves who stole my masks." Thus I became a madman.

Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.