Accepting Yourself Quotes - Page 2

• It is time to return to those core values, time to get back to basics: to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family, and not shuffling it off on other people and the state.

  John Major

  Responsibility, Self, Law

  "Major gives seal of approval to Tories' right-wing agenda". The Sunday Times, October 9, 1993.

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• Loving yourself...does not mean being self-absorbed or narcissistic, or disregarding others. Rather it means welcoming yourself as the most honored guest in your own heart, a guest worthy of respect, a lovable companion

  Margot Anand

  Love Yourself, Mean, Heart

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  Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.

  Tyra Banks

  Love Yourself, Self Love, How You Feel

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• I had to grow to love my body. I did not have a good self-image at first. Finally it occurred to me, I'm either going to love me or hate me. And I chose to love myself. Then everything kind of sprung from there. Things that I thought weren't attractive became sexy. Confidence makes you sexy.

  Queen Latifah

  Inspirational, Beauty, Confidence

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• You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Love Yourself

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• It's OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.

  Billy Joel

  Love Yourself, Acceptance, Loving Yourself

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• Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Life, Positive, Meaningful

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You want society to accept you; but you can’t even accept yourself.

  Michael Fassbender

  Want, X Men, First Class

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  Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.

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  Ram Dass

  Confidence, Self Esteem, Love Yourself

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• If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Love, Life, Self Esteem

  Barbara De Angelis (2009). “Real Moments for Lovers: The Enlightened Guide for Discovering Total Passion and True Intimacy”, p.20, Dell

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• When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

  Jean Shinoda Bolen

  Inspirational, Life, Attitude

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• I was once afraid of people saying, “Who does she think she is?” Now I have the courage to stand and say, “This is who I am.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Self Esteem

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.166, Macmillan

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• Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

  Jean Anouilh

  Life, Being Yourself, Acceptance

  "Plays: Thieves' carnival. Medea. Cécile, or The school for fathers. Traveler without luggage. The orchestra. Episode in the life of an author. Catch as catch can".

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• Can you predict the future with absolute certainty? Your answer must be no. You have two options: You can either decide to accept yourself as an imperfect human being with limited knowledge and realize that you will at times make mistakes, or you can hate yourself for it.

  David D. Burns

  Hate, Mistake, Two

  Source: time.com

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• The world mirrors yourself back to you. If you love, nourish, and appreciate yourself internally it will show up in your external life. If you want more love, give more love to yourself. If you want acceptance, accept yourself.

  Debbie Ford

  Acceptance, Mirrors, Appreciate

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• Once you forgive yourself, the self-rejection in your mind is over. Self-acceptance begins, and the self-love will grow so strong that you will finally accept yourself just the way you are. That's the beginning of the free human. Forgiveness is the key.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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• You are complete. Completion has taken place in you eons ago. Accept yourself. Enjoy yourself. This time will never be again, so fulfill the moment with your own self-joy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Taken, Buddhism

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• To be beautiful means to be yourself.You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. When you are born a lotus flower, be a beautiful lotus flower, don't try to be a magnolia flower. If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life. True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself.

  Nhat Hanh

  Beautiful, Being Yourself, Lying

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• Loving yourself has nothing to do with being selfish, self-centered or self-engrossed. It means that you accept yourself for what you are. Loving yourself means that you accept responsibility for your own development, growth and happiness.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Selfish, Mean, Responsibility

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• Pick your battles, and accept yourself for who you are.

  Chrissie Wellington

  Battle, Picks, Who You Are

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• I learned that accepting others and accepting myself are two sides of the same coin; you can't love and accept yourself without doing the same for others.

  Steve Pavlina

  Two Sides, Thought Provoking, Coins

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• To gain the acceptance of your peers is an admirable task, but to truly accept yourself requires a much higher standard.

  Wes Fesler

  Acceptance, Tasks, Peers

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• When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don't know you think.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Mistake

  "Destiny’s Child". Interview with Lorraine Bracco, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 2001.

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