Self Acceptance Quotes

A sobering thought: what if right at this very moment I am living up to my full potential?

I long to see everything to know everything to learn everything!

Don't try to teach a whole course in one lesson.

At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand know the exact number of his defects and qualities. ... And above all accept these things.

How I relate to my inner self influences my relationships with all others. My satisfaction with myself and my satisfaction with other people are directly proportional.

If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself.

If one is cruel to himself how can we expect him to be compassionate with others?

Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.

To succeed is nothing-it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

No matter what age you are or what your circumstances might be you are special and you still have something unique to offer. Your life because of who you are has meaning.

The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there- you build yourself. Those are the high ones the thick ones the ones with no doors in.

Interest in the lives of others the high evaluation of these lives what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds in himself the value he attributes to his own being?

Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing other people a favor and vice versa.

Healthy personalities accept themselves not in any self-idolizing way but in the sense that they see themselves as persons who are worth giving to another and worthy to receive from another.

We should try to bring to any power what we have as women. We will destroy it all if we try to imitate that absolutely unfeeling driving ambition that we have seen coming at us across the desk.

A man needs self-acceptance or he can't live with himself he needs self-criticism or others can't live with him.

To love others we must first learn to love ourselves.

Imagination was given to us to compensate for what we are not a sense of humor was provided to console us for what we are.

I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there.

A true man never frets about his place in the world but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature and swings there as easily as a star.

My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

When you affirm your own Tightness in the universe then you co-operate with others easily and automatically as part of your own nature. You being yourself help others be themselves.

So prodigal was I of youth Forgetting I was young I worshipped dead men for their strength Forgetting I was strong.

Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does.

It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble but [we do know] it is our sacred duty.

Each of us has a day ... when he has to accept finally the fact that he is a man.

Style is something peculiar to one person it expresses one personality and one only it cannot be shared.

If you put a woman in a man's position she will be more efficient but no more kind.

Accept your humanness as well as your divinity totally and without reserve.

Why can a man not act himself be himself and think for himself? It seems to me that naturalness alone is power that a borrowed word is weaker than our own weakness however small we may be.

The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.

Who you are is a necessary step to being who you will be.

Ultimately love is self approval.

Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues.

If I am not for myself who is for me? And if I am only for myself what am I? And if not now when?

Accept your defeats With your head up and your eyes open With the grace of woman not the grief of a child ...

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