Inspirational Acceptance Quotes About Life, Love and Relationships
July 19, 2022 5:00 AM EST
Our latest collection of awesome acceptance quotes on Everyday Power!
All of us go through it.
At one point in our life, maybe even right now, acceptance can be the most important thing.
Whether it’s acceptance from our family, friends, classmates or coworkers – we all want to feel respected, understood and connected.
But… does that always happen?
Of course not?
Why not?
Many reasons.
For some people, low self-esteem can have them feeling disconnected and shunned.
For others, their confidence can have them removed from the pack, so far ahead, they can seem like an enemy.
Where do you stand?
Maybe somewhere in between?
Here are some amazing acceptance quotes to remind you how amazing you are, whether others realize it or not!
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Best Acceptance Quotes About Loving Yourself and Loving Others
1. “Nothing brings down walls as surely as acceptance.”― Deepak Chopra
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2. “How can anyone begin to love you if you don’t love yourself?” – Jeff Moore
!["How can anyone begin to love you if you don't love yourself?" - Jeff Moore Acceptance Quotes about self love](https://everydaypower.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Acceptance-Quotes-About-Life.png)
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3. “You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”― Amy Bloom
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4. “Every step of our life we need to accept ourselves all over again.” – Jeff Moore
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5. “The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.” – Nathaniel Branden
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6. “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” – Dolly Parton
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7. “To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.” – Oscar Wilde
!["To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance." - Oscar Wilde Acceptance Quotes about loving yourself](https://everydaypower.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Acceptance-Quotes-About-Loving-Others.png)
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8. “The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”― Mark Twain
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9. “Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it.”― David Richo
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10. “Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.” – Tina Fey
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11. “The happiest people in life are able to be themselves. But you cannot be yourself, until you accept yourself.” – Jeff Moore
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12. “When you love yourself, it’s easier to love the world. When you love the world, more love comes your way.” – Jeff Moore
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13. “To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
![Acceptance Quotes to be beautiful](https://everydaypower.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Inspirational-Acceptance-Quotes-About-Life-Love-and-Relationships-13.jpg)
14. “Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”― Siddhārtha Gautama
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15. “Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.”― Valery Satterwhite
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16. “There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow.”― Aaron Lauritsen
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17. “My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.”― Michael J. Fox
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18. “Celebrate who you are in your deepest heart. Love yourself and the world will love you.”― Amy Leigh Mercree
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Inspirational Acceptance Quotes about Life
19.“We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.” – Carl Jung
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20. “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
21. “Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.” – J. K. Rowling
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22. “The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.” – Maureen Dowd
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23. “No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” – Alice Walker
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24. “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
25. “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
26. “If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is ‘the quiet acceptance of what is’.” – Wayne Dyer
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27. “I’m not perfect. I make mistakes. And I will make more mistakes. And that’s OK.” – Unknown
![Acceptance Quotes about making mistake](https://everydaypower.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Inspirational-Acceptance-Quotes-About-Life-Love-and-Relationships-27.jpg)
28. “Love your mistake as much as your accomplishments. Because without mistakes, there wouldn’t be any accomplishments.”- Unknown
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29. “The key to happiness is believing you are enough!”
30. “A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.” – Ken Keyes
![Acceptance Quotes about your loving world](https://everydaypower.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Inspirational-Acceptance-Quotes-About-Life-Love-and-Relationships-30.jpg)
31. “You don’t need to be perfect to feel absolutely great about yourself all the damn time.”- Unknown
![Acceptance Quotes to be perfect](https://everydaypower.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Inspirational-Acceptance-Quotes-About-Life-Love-and-Relationships-31.jpg)
32. “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
33. “I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I’m not.”- Unknown
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34. “Life is hard enough, stop beating yourself up.”- Unknown
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35. “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 Life To Help You Despite Weaknesses or Deficiencies
36. “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
37. “The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.” ― Stephanie Perkins
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38. “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
39. “Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.” ― Mark Z. Danielewski
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40. “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
41. “Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It’s about knowing and accepting who you are.” ― Ellen DeGeneres
42. “Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit.” ― Shannon L. Alder
43. “Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on.” ― Charlaine Harris
44. “I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore,
like I always thought I would.” ― Charlotte Eriksson
45. “Set the standard! Stop expecting others to show you love, acceptance, commitment, & respect when you don’t even show that to yourself.” ― Steve Maraboli
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