self-acceptance quotes

Well, I’m in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

I am who I am. That’s why my friends and peers respect and appreciate me. I don’t change or cater my actions to fit my surroundings. I’m myself 24/7. People appreciate that.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

My fat never made me less money.

I’ve always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin‘ my thing, my own way. And it’s been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

Certainly a woman should never disguise the fact that she is a woman. A woman’s body is very beautiful.

I don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

You’re looking at a middle-class guy. I am who I am.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

Whether I’m wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I’m always the same person inside.

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

Don’t feel sorry for me.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face.

I would love to continue in music, with writing… but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don’t need to be blonde when I’m 60!

I don’t know that you can put a label on growth. I’m just me.

I still consider myself a little, fat kid from Hawaii.

I’m very secure about my talents and about who I am.

I don’t believe in doing things to manufacture my body to appeal to what I think people might like.

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

If you’re trying too hard to be the girl next door, you’re not going to be.

I’m not intimidated by how people perceive me.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face. You know, I prayed about it a long, long, long, long, long time, because there again, I wouldn’t want to do anything that I felt was going to be offensive to God.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

I’ve always been really, really aware of my insecurities – really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.

I know who I am, I know what I can and can’t do. I know what I will and won’t do. I know what I’m capable of and I don’t agree to do things that I don’t think I can pull off.

I already am a product.

Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that’s fine with me!

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.

We all have our imperfections. But I’m human, and you know, it’s important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty.

Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks. And know that you are just as perfect as anyone else, exactly as you are.

All of us, no matter how we look born into this world, feel something like the Hunchback. It doesn’t matter if you have a beautiful face or not.

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, ‚I’m not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.‘ Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, ‚Yes, I deserve it.‘

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what’s underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don’t think it ever will be.

I think it’s so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully.

I don’t want people to think of me as sexy.

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.

Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it’s so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them.

I am sure there’s going to be times when I do things wrong that no one’s going to like and everyone’s going to think I’m terrible and rubbish but I know I’m going to go through those times, and it’s just about understanding that that’s going to happen.

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘

Always fall in with what you’re asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever’s going. Not against: with.

I’m not concerned with people seeing me in a certain way. Some people see me as a kid, some people see me as an adult. But I’m seriously not going to complain how anybody sees me, as long as they see me.

I’m not a centerfold.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

I’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

I don’t want to be fake. I’m just being me. And I have the power to break stereotypes and whatever useless rules that society puts on us.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

I’m comfortable in my own skin, no matter how far it’s stretched. Ha ha.

I’m just trying to be myself. I’m not trying to be anyone else.

I don’t want to be called a point guard, but I can’t stop it.

Just because something didn’t work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.

The quote-unquote ‚description‘ of a leading man was once your tall, handsome man with the build of whatever, almost a trophy to some degree. I think now it’s about making a leading man what you want a leading man to be. In this day, you can’t deny talent. You look at Jonah Hill, you look at Zach Galifianakis, you look at myself.