Quotes About Acceptance

True acceptance allows all to be as it is. It doesn’t want to change anything. Whatever comes and goes is perfect as it is. It has a state of flow to it and even a state of unconditional love that permeates through it.

Acceptance in itself has the power to transform any relationship. And even end some or all of the suffering that we have inflicted on each other. And the world at large.

This cannot be said about many emotions in this universe.

Below are 152 quotes about acceptance as well as 49 self acceptance quotes for you that  can help you get to know the meaning of these two phrases more intimately.

Enjoy

152 Quotes About Acceptance

1. “Happiness can exist only in acceptance.” – George Orwell
2. “We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes, understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.” – Arianna Huffington
3. “We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell
4. “Wisdom is knowing what you have to accept.” – Wallace Stenger
5. “Acceptance does not mean you agree with, condone, appreciate, or even like what has happened. Acceptance means that you known, regardless of what happened, that there is something bigger than you at work. It also means you know you are okay and that you will continue to be ok.” – Iyanla Vanzant
6. “Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” – Maria Robinson
7. “This too shall pass.”
8. “Whatever you accept completely will take you to peace, including the acceptance that you cannot accept, that you are in resistance.” – Eckhart Tolle
9. “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
10. “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
11. “Let come what comes, let go what goes, see what remains.” – Ramana Maharshi
12. “The secret of being happy is accepting where you are in life and making the most out of everyday.”
13. “Acceptance means no complaining, and happiness means no complaining about the things over which you can do nothing.” – Wayne Dyer
15. “When we are mindful, deeply in touch with the present moment, out understanding of what is going on deepens, and we begin to be filled with acceptance, joy, peace and love.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
16. “Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.” – William James
17. “The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.” – Brian Tracy
18. “Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.” – Robert Brault
19. “Acceptance makes an incredible fertile soil for the seeds of change.” – Steve Maraboli
20. “The best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
21. “The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don’t be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.” – Chuck Palahniuk
22. “Accepting yourself isn’t about giving up or settling, throwing in the towel, no accepting yourself is about having your own back and never abandoning yourself.” – Kriss Carr
23. “Remind yourself that you cannot fail at being yourself.” – Wayne Dyer
24. “Acceptance is the hardest lesson life teaches, and the one most important to learn.” – Rose Tremain
25. “The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.” – Stephanie Perkins
26. “No regrets, just lessons. No worries, just acceptance. No expectations, just gratitude, life is too short.” – Jesse Joseph
27. “Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.” – Miyamoto Musashi
28. “If I could define enlightenment, briefly I would say it is the quiet acceptance of what is.” – Wayne Dyer
29. “A friend is someone who gives total freedom to be yourself, and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling any any moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to, letting a person be what he really is.” – Jim MOrrison
30. “Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life altering lessons.” – Jessica Lange
31. “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
32. “The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.” – Nathaniel Branden
33. “You can’t stop the waves but you can learn to surf.” – Joseph Goldstein
34. “The key to being magnetically attractive is feeling great about yourself. It’s all about confidence and that inner glow and bringing your best self to your relationship.” – Andrea Miller
35. “Acceptance is different than apathy. It is important to strive to be your best self, healthiest and most productive, joyful self. But that is going to be a different answer to everyone.” – Teri Hatcher
36. “Acceptance is the key to be truly free.” – Katy Perry
37. “I draw love and acceptance into my life, and I accept it now.” – Louise Hay
38. “Acceptance is the art of allowing energy to flow through you comfortably, even with the restrictions in place of your own pains and your own energy stamps on the tubes that run through you to carry that energy.” – Steve Rother & The Group
39. “God gives some more than others, because some accept more than others.” – Ernest Holmes
40. “My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectation.” – Michael J Fox.
41. “Love is acceptance. When you love someone, you take them into your heart, and that is surely why it hurts so much when we lose someone we love, because we lose a part of ourselves.” – Andrew the Apostle
42. “Image unconditional acceptance of your flaws, your past mistakes, your painful regrets. Now imagine your joys, your kindness and all the things you have done well and right. No caveats, buts, or disclaimers. Let that feeling sink in deep. Meditate on it as if committing a picture to memory. Reclaiming that feeling every day.” – Margaret B. Moss
43. “Acceptance. It is the true thing that everyone longs for. The one thing that everyone craves. To walk in a room and be greeted by everyone with hugs and smiles. And in that small passing moment, you truly know you’re loved, needed and accepted.” – Rena Harmon
44. “You couldn’t relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole, like the world, or the person you loved.” – Steward O’Nan
45. “Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.” – Valery Satterwhite
46. “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 the like.” – Lao Tzu
47. “Acceptance and assimilation, you know, breeds mediocrity and even more sheep-like conformism in terms of what kind of music you’re supposed to listen to if you’re gay. What are you supposed to look like? What’s your body supposed to look like.” – John Cameron Mitchell
48. “True happiness is an acceptance of life as it is given to us, with its diminishment, mystery, uncontrolability and all.” – Michael Gellbert
49. “True happiness will come when accepting the bad that has happened to you, deeply forgiving and releasing yourself from the agony by moving forward. Then you will know what true happiness feels like.” – Jeneane Oliver
50. “Bad humor is evasion of reality, good humor is an acceptance of it.” – Malcom Muggeridge
51. “Accept your past with no regrets, handle your present with confidence and face you future with no fear.”
52. “What you deny and ignore, you delay. What you accept and face, you conquer.”
53. “Accept then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. This will miraculously transform your whole life.” – Ekhart Tolle
54. “Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps and unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.” – Arthur Rubinstein
55. “Don’t try to understand everything. Sometimes it is not meant to be understood, just accepted.”
56. “Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.” – Valery Satterwhite
57. “Accepting yourself is a big step, but it is the most important one of your life.” – Noreen Sumpter
58. “No matter what your flaws or shortcomings, you are okay, you are loved.” – Andrea Miller
59. “The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.” – Tara Brach
60. “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can and wisdom to know the difference.”
61. “Don’t expect, just accept.” – Tharangini
62. “Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.” – David G. Allen
63. “People who fit don’t seek. The seekers are those that don’t fit.” – Shannon L. Alder
64. “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
65. “Acceptance is not love, You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they’re alive and human.” – Albert Ellis
66. “Sometimes you have to shut up, swallow your pride, and accept that you’re wrong. It’s not give up, it’s called growing up.”
67. “You don’t need someone to complete you. You only need someone to accept you completely.”
68. “Destiny is a good thing to accept when it’s going your way. When it isn’t don’t call it destiny, call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.” – Joseph Heller
69. “Sometimes you need to accept the fact that certain things will never go back to how they used to be.”
70. “When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation, or accept it. All else is madness.” – Eckhart Tolle
71. “Acceptance doesn’t mean that life gets better. It just means that my way of live life on life’s terms improve.” – Sharon E Rainey
72. “Accept what is, let go of what was and have faith in what will be.” – Sonia Ricotti
73. “When you find no solution to a problem, it’s probably not a problem to be solved, but rather a truth to be accepted.”
74. “There are things we don’t want to happen, but have to accept, things we don’t want to know but have to learn, and people we can’t live without but have to let go.” – Criminal Minds
75. “I don’t care what you earn, where you live, what you drive, whether you are fat or think, tall or short, beautiful or average, poor or rich, smart or not. If you’re my friend, your my friend. I accept you for who you are and that’s all that matters.”
76. “Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.” – J.K. Rowling
77. “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into 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
78. “Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.” – Unkown
79. “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
80. “Today I will live in acceptance rather than expectation.”
81. “If you live for people’s acceptance, you will die from their rejection.” – Lecrae
82. “Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance.”
83. “Society as a whole is much more accepting. You are much more likely today to see people with disabilities in the media, place of worship, schools. Whereas in a prior generation, mothers were told to put the child in an institution and forget about them.” – David Tolleson
84. “Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It’s a great thing to aspire to do. The hardest part is actually doing it.” – Sarah Dessen
85. “Acceptance on 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
86. “Acceptance is what we wish for ourselves and often deny others.” – Susan L. Taylor
87. “The acceptance of certain realities doesn’t preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.” – Rem Koolhaas
88. “Sometimes your heart needs more time to accept what your mind already knows.”
89. “Love me without restriction, trust me without fear, want me without demand, accept me for who I am.”
90. “One of the happiest moments in life is when you find the courage to let go of what you cannot change.”
91. “Acceptance of the power of God in one’s life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict.” – Kenneth L. Pike
92. “The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.” – Walt Disney
93. “Accept that you will never be perfect, life will always have challenges and other people will disappoint you sometimes. Acceptance is the first step towards peace.” – Lori Deschene
94. “When I accept myself, I am freed from the burden of needing you to accept me.”
95. “Love means really trying to understand your partner and honoring your differences.” – Andrea Miller
96. “Acceptance is one important manifestation of love.”
97. “Acceptance is not submission, it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you’re going to do about it.” 0 Kathleen Casey Theisen
98. “Once you start accepting things as they are, most of your problems will be solved.” – Vishal Rastogi
99. “Positive thinking isn’t about expecting the best to happen every time, it is about accepting that whatever happens is the best for that moment.”
100. “But sometimes you just have to accept that some things simply cannot remain the same.” – Maisjetaime
101. “Holiness does not consist in doing extraordinary things. It consists in accepting, with a smile, what Jesus sends us. It consists in accepting and following the will of God.” – Mother Theresa
102. “Set the standard. Stop expecting others to show you love, acceptance, commitment and respect when you don’t even show that to yourself.” – Steve Maraboli
103. “Acceptance of others, their looks, their behavior, their beliefs, bring you an inner peace and tranquility instead of anger and resentment.”
104. “Sometimes changes look negative on the surface, but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.” – Eckhart Tolle
105. “Sometimes you have to accept the fact that certain things will never go back to the way they used to be.”
106. “Acceptance in the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place of situation, some fact of my life, unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing or situation as being exactly they way it’s supposed to be at this moment. Nothing, absolutely nothing happens in God’s world by mistake. Until I accept myself, my situation and my life completely on life’s terms, I cannot be happy. I need to concentrate not so much on what happens in the world as on what needs to be changed in me and in my attitudes.” – Unknown
107. “Age is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.” – Martha Graham
108. “Acceptance is being in the moment without necessarily agreeing with it. It’s about facing reality rather than trying to control it.”
109. “Love means really trying to understand your partner and honoring your differences.” – Andrea Miller
110. :I am back to the beginning. Unpopular, totally weird, but I’m in love with myself.” – Nitiasya Belapurkar
111. “May your own acceptance set you free.”
112. “Sometimes you just have to regret things and move one.” – Charlaine Harris
113. “Wonder Woman is a fighter, better than most, but it’s what she fights for that is important. It’s her vision of a future of pace and acceptance that makes her the right ambassador for everyone.” – Gal Gadot
114. “When you accept someone you accept their past too. So don’t hold it or use it against them later.”
115. “And it is only when you accept everything you are, and aren’t, that you will truly succeed.” – Unknown
116. “Once you have accepted your flaws, no one can use the against you.” – George R.R. Martin
117. “Worrying is arrogant because God knows that He’s doing.” – Barbara Cameron
118. “The key to patience are acceptance and faith, accept things are they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.” – Ralph Marston
119. “Body love is more than acceptance of self or the acceptance of the body. Body love is about self-worth in general. IT’s more than our physical appearance.” – Mary Lambert
120. “No one can validate you enough to make it last. Outside approval feels great but true self-worth lies in the ability to give it to yourself.”
121. “It is what it is, accept it and move on.”
122. “Inner peace comes from accepting yourself and what’s happening as it is right now without trying to control or change it.”
123. “Once you’re mastered the art of accepting things for what they are, life gets easier.”
124. “Don’t let someone accept you when you pretend to be someone you are not. That is not acceptance!”
125. “Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.”
126. “Instead of trying to change another persons behavior, trying changing the way you react. Acceptance without is less stressful.” – Linda
127. “Do not wait for someone to validate your existence. It is your own responsibility.” – Jasz Gill
128. “Time does not heal everything but acceptance will heal everything.”
129. “It’s important to remember that animals are not grieving with us. They’re accepting. They’re not lying there thinking ‘How could you do this to me? Why aren’t you keeping me going?’ Pets don’t do the human things of guilt and anger and recrimination that we do. They come and go with great acceptance.” – Jon Katz
130. “Social acceptance, ‘being liked’, has so much power because it holds the feelings of loneliness at bay.” – Rollo May
131. “Any natural, normal human being, when faced with any kind of loss, will go from shock all the say through acceptance.” – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
132. “Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.” – Jackie Robinson
133. “Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.” – Jean Toomer
134. “Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcome the consequences of any misfortune.” – William James
135. “Have the life you want by being present to the life you have.” – Mark Nepo
136. “Accepting difference is when you recognize and respect people who are different to you, but also embrace their differences and see what you can learn from them.”
137. “At the end of the day people have to respect people’s differences. I am difference than some people would like me to be.” – Kevin Spacey
138. “Diversity, the art of thinking independently together.” – Malcolm Forbes
140. “You are a wise soul who keeps their sights on the big picture, where attitudes of acceptance and forgiveness easily flourish.”
141. “The past cannot be changed, forgotten, edited or erased. It can only be accepted.”
142. “By practicing what we advocate and with any kind of acceptance that we expect from others, let’s stop being so damn judgmental and crucifying everyone who doesn’t fit in to our boxed-in perception of what is right.”
143. “Don’t lose your dignity and self-respect to make people accept, love and appreciate you, when they just aren’t capable.”
144. “Love is the only mirror we must use to judge ourselves and others.” – Bodie Thoene
145. “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 breath of kindness, blow the rest away.” – George Elliot
146. “Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with acceptance of not knowing.” – Mark Z. Danielweski
147. “You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love that person for that.” – Jeannette Walls
148. “I let it go. It’s like swimming against the current. It exhuasts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.” – Joanne Harris
149. “Detachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be.” – Stephen Levine
150. “All children should be taught to unconditionally accept, approve, admire, appreciate, forgive, trust, and ultimately love their own person.” – Asa Don Brown
151. “To love is to accept a soul entirely, not wishing that the person was otherwise, nor hoping for change, nor clinging to some ideal past. To love is to cherish the individual standing before you presently, charms, quirks and all.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
152. “There is so much grace in acceptance. It’s not an easy concept, but if you embrace it, you’ll find more peace than you ever imagined.” – Loretta LaBoche

Self Acceptance Quotes

1. “The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life.” – Carl Jung
2. “I have the choice to be angry at God for what I don’t have or be thankful for what I do have.” – Nick Vujicic
3. “You work so hard to fix yourself, but maybe what you need isn’t another tactic, another book, another five step plan. Maybe you don’t need to be fixed. Maybe what’s really holding you back is the idea that you need to be fixed.” – Viranika Tugleua
4. “Genuine self acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games, or pop psychology. It is an act of faith in the God of grace.” – Berman Manning
5. “I have the choice to be angry at God for what I don’t have or be thankful for what I do have.” – Nick Vujicic
6. “I myself am made entirely of flaws. Stitched together with good intentions.”
7. “Accept who you are, unless you’re a serial killer.” – Ellen DeGeneres
8. It’s is not selfish to love yourself, to take care of yourself and to make your happiness a priority. It’s necessary.” – Mandy Hale
9. “Laugh at yourself, not with ridicule but with objectivity and acceptance of self.” – C.W. Metcalf
10. “In a society that profits from your self doubt, liking yourself is a rebellious act.” – Caroline Caldwell
11. “There is no greater suffering than constantly measuring yourself and coming short, expect perhaps the realization that your suffering is hurting others. But where do we learn these things? We don’t come crying out of the womb because our birth weight or because we have not money in this brand new world. We learn to measure and we learn to attach our self-worth to those measurements.” – Cironika Tugaleva
12. “Let go of who you think you are supposed to be and be who you are.” – Brene Brown
13. “Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic selves to the world, our selves of belonging can never be greater than our level of self acceptance.”  Brene Brown
14. “The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self rejetion.” – Henri Nouwen
15. “Your need for acceptance can make you invisible to this world. Don’t let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all your glory.” – Jim Carrey
16. “Once you accept the fact that you’re not perfect, then you develop some confidence.” – Rosalynn Carter
17. “Yoga is not about improvement, it’s about self acceptance.” – Gurmukh Kalir Khalsa
18. “A woman filled with self love and self acceptanceis a model more super than any cover girl.” – Amy Leigh Mercree
19. “Loving ourselves through the process of owning our story is the bravest thing we will ever do.” – Brene Brown
20. “If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.” – Maya Angelou
21. “Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.” – Coco Chanel
22. “Accepting yourself isn’t about giving up or settling, throwing in the towel, no accepting yourself is about having your own back and never abandoning yourself.” – Kris Car
23. “The supreme act of forgiveness is when you can forgive yourself for all the wounds you’ve created in your own life. Forgiveness is an act of self-love. When you forgive yourself, self-acceptance begins and self love grows.” – Miguel Angel Ruiz
24. “I’m not perfect but I’m pretty good.”
25. “Practice the art of radical acceptance and feel the inner stress of resistance dissolve into peace and understanding.”
26. “Self esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgement of others.” – Oprah Winfrey
27. “Stop hating yourself for everything you aren’t and start loving yourself for everything you already are.”
28. “You’ll never know who you are unless you shed who you pretend to be.” – Veronika Jugaleva
29. “When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn’t healthy. That mean people, jobs, my own beliefs and habits, anything that kept me small. My judgement called it disloyal, now I see it as self-loving.” – Kim McMillen
30. “To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted to by others. You need to accept yourself.” – Thich Nhat Hahn
31. “Nothing destroys self worth, self-acceptance and self love faster than denying what you feel. Without feelings, you would not know where you are in life. Nor would you know what areas you need to work on. Honor your feelings. Allow yourself to feel them.” – Iyanla Vanzant
32. “A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others whey we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time, we feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.” – Andrew Matthews
33. “When a woman becomes her own best friend, life becomes easier.” – Diane Von Furstenberg
34. “Accepting yourself as long as you look a certain way isn’t self love, it’s self destruction.” – Laci Green
35. “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” – Oscar Wilde
36. “Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.” – Nathaniel Brand
37. “The truth is, belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.” – Brene Brown
38. “Accept yourself unconditionally. You don’t need other people to approve of you, accept and love yourself just because.”
39. “Love and respect yourself and never compromise for anything. And then you will be surprised how much growth starts happening of it’s own accord. As if rocks have been removed and the river has started flowing.” – Rajneesh
40. “Often, it’t not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be.” – Heath Buckmaster
41. “No amount of self improvement can make up for any lack of self-acceptance.” – Robert Holden
42. “Just be yourself. Let people see the real, imperfect, flawed, quirky, weird, beautiful, magical person that you are.” – Mandy Hale
43. “Don’t want for someone to validate your existence. It is your own responsibility.” – Jasz Gill
44. “It’s not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself and to make your happiness a priority. It’s necessary.” – Mandy Hale
45. “True happiness will come when accepting the bad that has happened to you, deeply forgiving and releasing yourself from the agony by moving forward. Then you will know what true happiness feels like.” – Jeneane Oliver
46. “The only person who can pull me down is myself and I’m not going to let myself pull me down anymore.” – C. Joy Bell
47. “When you accept yourself, the whole world accepts you.”
48. “To accept ourselves as we are mans to value our imperfections as much as our perfections.” – Sandra Bierig
49. “In order to love who you are, you cannot hate the experiences that shaped you.” – Andrea Dykstra

Conclusion To Quotes About Acceptance

There we are my friend. 201 quotes about self acceptance and acceptance in general. Share with me your opinion on what true acceptance means do you along with what experiences you have had with self acceptance.

And of course what your favorite quotes are on the list!

Hope this is reaching you well.

 

Peace,

Chris