Welcome to our collection of Acceptance Quotes About Life! Here, you‘ll find a selection of quotes to help you accept the things you can‘t change, embrace life and its challenges, and let go of the things that don‘t serve you. These quotes will help you to recognize the beauty in life and appreciate the journey, even if it doesn‘t always go as planned. From the wise words of some of the world‘s most influential people, these acceptance quotes will inspire you to find peace and contentment in life. Enjoy!
Best Acceptance Quotes About Loving Yourself and Loving Others
🔹“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.” – Mark Twain
🔹“Acceptance doesn’t mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there’s got to be a way through it.” – Michael J. Fox
🔹“Acceptance doesn’t mean that life gets better; it just means that
🔹“my way of living life on life’s terms improves.” – Sharon E. Rainey
🔹“Die while alive and be thoroughly dead. Then do what you will, and all will be well.” – Philip Kapleau
🔹“Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.” – Shannon L. Alder
🔹“Have a big enough heart to love unconditionally, and a broad enough mind to embrace the differences that make each of us unique.”- D.B. Harrop
🔹“How can anyone begin to love you if you don’t love yourself?” – Jeff Moore
“I am Dead, but it’s not so bad. I’ve learned to live with it.” – Isaac Marion
🔹“It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes.” – Robert E. Lee
🔹“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” – Lucille Ball
🔹“Nothing brings down walls as surely as acceptance.”― Deepak Chopra
🔹“Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.”- Ann Landers
🔹“The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.”- Martin Luther King, Jr.
🔹“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.” – Dalai Lama XIV
🔹“You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.” – Diane Von Furstenberg
Acceptance Quotes about self love
🔹“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”― Amy Bloom
Acceptance Quotes about imperfections
🔹“Every step of our life we need to accept ourselves all over again.” – Jeff Moore
Acceptance Quotes about life
🔹“The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.” – Nathaniel Branden
Acceptance Quotes about change
🔹“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” – Dolly Parton
Acceptance Quotes and sayings Self
🔹“The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”― Mark Twain
🔹“To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.” – Oscar Wilde
Acceptance quotes to help you find happiness
🔹“A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one’s heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.” – George Eliot
🔹“Accept – then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.” – Eckhart Tolle
🔹“Accept everything about yourself I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end no apologies, no regrets.” – Henry A. Kissinger
🔹“Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward.” – Roy Bennett
“Acceptance is the key to everything.” – Michael J Fox
🔹“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 one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.” – Lao Tzu
🔹“Change is possible, but it must start with self-acceptance.” – Alexander Lowen
🔹“Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
🔹“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.” – Melody
🔹“I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore, like
🔹“I always thought I would.” ― Charlotte Eriksson
🔹“I’m not okay, you’re not okay, and that’s okay.” – William Sloane Coffin
🔹“Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it.” – Rasheed Ogunlaru
🔹“No amount of self-improvement can make up for any lack of self-acceptance.” ― Robert Holden
🔹“Nobody’s going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can’t always be in the fast lane.” – Haruki Murakami
🔹“Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.” – James Baldwin
🔹“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.” – Siddhārtha Gautama
🔹“Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.” – Nathaniel Branden
🔹“Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It’s about accepting all of yourself.” ― Tyra Banks
🔹“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” – Alan Watts
🔹“What self-acceptance does is open up more possibilities of succeeding because you aren’t fighting yourself along the way.” ― Shannon Ables
🔹“When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.” – Peace Pilgrim
🔹“When you stop living your life based on what others think of you real life begins. At that moment, you will finally see the door of self acceptance opened.” – Shannon L. Alder
Acceptance Quotes about loneliness
🔹“Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it.”― David Richo
Acceptance Quotes about humility
🔹“Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.” – Tina Fey
Inspirational Acceptance Quotes about Life
🔹“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.” ~ Mark Twain
🔹“A tree that is unbending, is easily broken.” ~ Laozi
🔹“A weed is but an unloved flower.” ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
🔹“Accept everything about yourself – I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end – no apologies, no regrets.” ~ Henry A. Kissinger
🔹“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
🔹“Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.” ~ William James
🔹“Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It’s a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.” ~ Sarah Dessen
🔹“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer , Self acceptance quotes
🔹“Anything in life that we don’t accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it.” ~ Shakti Gawain
“Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It’s about knowing and accepting who you are.” ~ Ellen DeGeneres
🔹“Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true.” ~ Robert Browning
🔹“Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.” ~ Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
🔹“Cherish forever what makes you unique, ‘cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.” ~ Bette Midler
🔹“Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.” ~ Saint Francis de Sales
🔹“Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
🔹“Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens.” ~ Wayne Dyer
🔹“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” ~ Reinhold Niebuhr
🔹“Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” ~ Melody Beattie
🔹“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.” ~ Melody Beattie
🔹“Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness” ~ Jean Vanier
🔹“Happiness can exist only in acceptance.” ~ George Orwell
🔹“History will never accept difficulties as an excuse.” ~ John F. Kennedy
🔹“I accept the universe!” ~ Margaret Fuller
🔹“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” ~ Michael Jordan
🔹“I follow four dictates: face it, accept it, deal with it, then let it go.” ~ Sheng-yen
🔹“I was willing to accept what I couldn’t change.” ~ Abdul Kalam
🔹“If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn. … If a child lives with fear, he learns to be apprehensive. … If a child lives with encouragement, he learns to be confident. … If a child lives with acceptance, he learns to love.” ~ Dorothy Nolte
🔹“If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is ‘the quiet acceptance of what is’.” ~ Wayne Dyer
🔹“If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.” ~ Michael Jordan
🔹“If you cannot endure to be thought in the wrong, you will begin to do terrible things to make the wrong appear right.” ~ Sydney J. Harris
🔹“In actual life, it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.” ~ Carl Jung
🔹“It’s not your job to like me – it’s mine” ~ Byron Katie
🔹“Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don’t have to like it… it’s just easier if you do.” ~ Byron Katie
🔹“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” ~ Lucille Ball , Acceptance quotes about love
🔹“Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience. It isn’t more complicated than that.” ~ Sylvia Boorstein
🔹“No amount of self-improvement can make up for any lack of self-acceptance.” ~ Robert Holden
🔹“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” ~ Alice Walker
🔹“Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings” ~ Arthur Rubinstein
🔹“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.” ~ Albert Einstein
🔹“Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. It is hard to find. In its presence, we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life. Silence is a place of great power and healing.” ~ Rachel Naomi Remen
🔹“Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance.” ~ Gautama Buddha
🔹“Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there’s all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will- to- action; acceptance frees
🔹“it by relieving it of impossible burdens.” ~ Arthur Gordon Webster
🔹“Surrender is the inner transition from resistance to acceptance, from no to yes.” ~ Eckhart Tolle
🔹“The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.” ~ Nathaniel Branden
🔹“The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.” ~ Maureen Dowd
🔹“The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.” ~ Stephanie Perkins
🔹“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” ~ Alan Watts
🔹“The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.” ~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
🔹“The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with the qualifications for adaptation, the ability to accept the inevitable and conform to the unavoidable, to harmonize with existing or changing conditions.” ~ Dave Smalley
🔹“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.” ~ Terry Pratchett
🔹“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” ~ Dolly Parton
🔹“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.” ~ John Lennon
🔹“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.” ~ Denis Waitley
🔹“There will always be people who will accept you for what you are!” ~ Sakura Tsukuba , Acceptance quotes who you are
🔹“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow – this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
🔹“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.” ~ Golda Meir
🔹“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.” ~ J. K. Rowling
🔹“We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.” ~ Carl Jung
🔹“We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
🔹“We must accept life for what it actually is – a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
🔹“We must have strong minds, ready to accept facts as they are.” ~ Harry S. Truman
🔹“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.” ~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
🔹“You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
🔹“You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.” ~ Ray Bradbury
🔹“Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.” ~ Rumi
🔹“A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.” – Ken Keyes
🔹“Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.” – Marcus Aurelius
🔹“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.” – Frederick Douglass
🔹“I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I’m not.”- Unknown
🔹“I’m not perfect. I make mistakes. And I will make more mistakes. And that’s OK.” – Unknown
🔹“If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is ‘the quiet acceptance of what is’.” – Wayne Dyer
🔹“Life is hard enough, stop beating yourself up.”- Unknown
🔹“Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don’t have to like it… it’s just easier if you do.” – Byron Katie
🔹“Love your mistake as much as your accomplishments. Because without mistakes, there wouldn’t be any accomplishments.”- Unknown
🔹“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” – Lucille Ball
🔹“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” – Alice Walker
🔹“The key to happiness is believing you are enough!”
🔹“The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.” – Maureen Dowd
🔹“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.” – J. K. Rowling
🔹“You don’t need to be perfect to feel absolutely great about yourself all the damn time.”- Unknown
🔹“You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
Acceptance Quotes About Life To Help You Despite Weaknesses or Deficiencies
🔹“Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It’s about knowing and accepting who you are.” ― Ellen DeGeneres
🔹“Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit.” ― Shannon L. Alder
🔹“I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore,”
🔹“Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.” ― Deborah Reber
🔹“Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.” ― Mark Z. Danielewski
🔹“Set the standard! Stop expecting others to show you love, acceptance, commitment, & respect when you don’t even show that to yourself.” ― Steve Maraboli
“Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on.” ― Charlaine Harris
🔹“The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.” ― Stephanie Perkins
🔹“The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.” ― Shannon L. Alder
🔹“You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies.
🔹“Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.” ― Jeannette Walls
Self acceptance quotes to empower you Quotes on
🔹“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself—and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.” – Jim Morrison
🔹“Acceptance of one’s life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.” – Paul Tournier
🔹“Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.” – William James
🔹“As you become clearer about who you really are, you’ll be better able to decide what is best for you – the first time around.” – Oprah Winfrey
🔹“Happiness can exist only in acceptance.” – George Orwell
🔹“Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.” – Deborah Reber, Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul
🔹“No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.” – Fernando Pessoa
🔹“The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.” – Sting
🔹“The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.” – Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss
🔹“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow—this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.” – Elizabeth
🔹“Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
🔹“When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.” – Peace Pilgrim
Self Acceptance To Give You Courage
🔹“Belong… to yourself, to the earth, to others. Above all, engage in “radical self-acceptance.” ― Sandra Schrift
🔹“Belonging starts with self-acceptance… Believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic.” ― Brene Brown
“Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.” ― Jack Kornfield
🔹“One woman filled with self-love and self-acceptance is a model more super than any cover girl.” ― Amy Leigh Mercree
🔹“Self-acceptance is involved in this process. You have got to be able to look at both your dark and your light side and not get enamored or depressed by either.” ― Frederick Lindemann
🔹“Self-acceptance is self-love in action.” ― Jodi Livon
🔹“Shame makes self-acceptance and self-love impossible.” ― bell hooks
🔹“Success is total self-acceptance.” ― Viktor Frankl
🔹“The greatest miracle you can hope for is self-acceptance.” ― Maxwell Maltz
🔹“Your own level of self-acceptance is determined largely by how well you feel you are accepted by the important people in your life.” ― Brian Tracy
Motivational Acceptance Quotes To Help You Overcome Challenges
🔹“Acceptance of one’s life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.”
🔹“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
🔹“One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.”
🔹“The five stages – denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance – are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief.”
🔹“These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn’t even know existed.”
🔹“Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. – William James
🔹“Anything in life that we don’t accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it. – Shakti Gawain
🔹“I follow four dictates: face it, accept it, deal with it, then let it go. – Sheng-yen
🔹“If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is ‘the quiet acceptance of what is’. – Wayne Dyer
🔹“Panic causes tunnel vision. Calm acceptance of danger allows us to more easily assess the situation and see the options. – Simon Sinek
🔹“Surrender is the inner transition from resistance to acceptance, from no to yes. – Eckhart Tolle
🔹“We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don’t. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success. – Henry Rollins
Verdict
Acceptance Quotes About Life remind us to be present and accept whatever life throws our way. They help us to understand that even in the most difficult of times, there is still beauty and hope. Acceptance teaches us to be at peace with the world around us and to be open to new experiences and opportunities that come our way. Life is a journey, and the journey is best enjoyed when we accept and appreciate the moments that come our way.