49 Quotes About Accepting Yourself

Peer pressure can take a toll on yourself and others. These quotes about accepting yourself will bring you the encouragement you need to feel at peace with yourself.

“A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.”

“Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward.”

“Acceptance is the key to everything.”

“An act of imagination is an act of self-acceptance.”

“Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval.”

“Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.”

“Becoming acquainted with yourself is a price well worth paying for the love that will really address your needs.”

“Change is possible, but it must start with self-acceptance.”

“Do something every day that is loving toward your body and gives you the opportunity to enjoy the sensations of your body.”

“For once, you believed in yourself. you believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world.”

“Forgive yourself. The supreme act of forgiveness is when you can forgive yourself for all the wounds you’ve created in your own life. Forgiveness is an act of self-love. When you forgive yourself, self-acceptance begins and self-love grows.”

“Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”

“Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. It is an act of the faith in the God of grace.”

“I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.”

“I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can’t conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood.”

“If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.”

“In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.”

“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”

“My willingness to be intimate with my own deep feelings creates the space for intimacy with another.”

“No amount of self-improvement can make up for any lack of self-acceptance.”

“Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be.”

“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”

“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”

“Self-acceptance has been a blessed by product of middle age.”

“Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.”

“Self-approval and self-acceptance in the now are the main keys to positive changes in every area of our lives.”

“Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.”

“The difference between my darkness and your darkness is that I can look at my own badness in the face and accept its existence while you are busy covering your mirror with a white linen sheet. ”

“The greatest miracle you can hope for is self-acceptance.”

“The journey into self-love and self-acceptance must begin with self-examination until you take the journey of self-reflection, it is almost impossible to grow or learn in life.”

“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.”

“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”

“The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”

“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”

“To be nobody but yourself in a world that’s doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting.”

“Total self acceptance is empowering. It means allowing others to see you as they choose, without being offended.”

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are.”

“We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.”

“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.”

“When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn’t healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs and habits anything that kept me small. My judgement called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving.”

“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”

“You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.”

“You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are.”

“You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. ”

“You can succeed if nobody else believes it, but you will never succeed if you don’t believe in yourself.”

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”

“Your own level of self-acceptance is determined largely by how well you feel you are accepted by the important people in your life.”

Looking past your flaws and choosing yourself above all else will allow you to give yourself more credit.