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QUOTES ON SELF-ACCEPTANCE"A person's worth is contingent upon who he is, not upon what he does, or how much he has. The worth of a person, or a thing, or an idea, is in being, not in doing, not in having." (Alice Mary Hilton) "We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued." (Jean De La Bruyere) "I'll always be number 1 to myself." (Moses Malone) "Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on." (Maxwell Maltz) "Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have." (Doris Mortman) "Until you value yourself you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it." (M. Scott Peck) "I am as my creator made me and since He is satisfied, so am I." (Minnie Smith) "The greatest success, is successful self acceptance." (Ben Sweet) "Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate." (Source Unknown) "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) "Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery." (Matthew Arnold) "I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous." (Ani DiFranco) "The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself." (Lao-Tzu) "Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving." (Maxwell Maltz) "It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship." (Norman Vincent Peale) "Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing." (Sydney Smith) "When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too." (Jake Steinfeld) "I am complete but not finished." (Greg Anderson) "The relationships we have with the world are largely determined by the relationships we have with ourselves." (Greg Anderson) "It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is." (Desiderius Erasmus) "You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are...your simple presence can make others happy." (Jane Roberts) "There is no freedom like seeing myself as I am and not losing heart." (Elizabeth J. Canham) "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power that resides in him is new in Nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "When you can lovingly be present to yourself, your presence to others takes on a deeper quality also." (MacRina Wiederkehr) "There is that part of ourselves that feels ugly, deformed, unacceptable. That part, above all, we must learn to cherish, embrace, and call by name." (MacRina Wiederkehr) "...self-contempt never inspires lasting change." (Jane R. Hirschmann and Carol H. Munter) "If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away." (John Steinbeck) "We all have obstacles to overcome. I have come to understand also that there are many people willing to accept and help you, if only you first accept and help yourself. It's true. If you are an angry person, the hostility drives people away from you, but if you are at peace and have confidence in yourself,, people are drawn to you." (Stedman Graham) |