Top 200 Acceptance Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “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.”

— Ariana Grande

152. “Lord, I am willing To receive what You give. To lack what You withhold. To relinquish what You take, To suffer what You inflict, To be what you require.”

— Jerry Bridges

153. “Happiness is a function of accepting what is.”

— Werner Erhard

154. “Everything happens when it needs to happen; everyone is always where they need to be. You will never miss out on what is meant for you, even if it has to come to you in a roundabout way.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

155. “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass; it’s about learning to dance in the rain.”

— Sandi Lynn

156. “Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth.”

— Anonymous

157. “Surrender is the simple but profound wisdom of yielding to rather than opposing the flow of life.”

— Eckhart Tolle

158. “We are here to heal, not harm. We are here to love, not hate. We are here to create, not destroy.”

— Anthony D. Williams

159. “All is well. You did not come here to fix a broken world. The world is not broken. You came here to live a wonderful life. And if you can learn to relax a little and let it all in, you will begin to see the universe present you with all that you have asked for.”

— Esther Hicks

160. “This is a moment of suffering. Suffering is part of life. May I be kind to myself in this moment. May I give myself the compassion I need.”

— Kristin Neff

161. “Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough.”

— Ram Dass

162. “I try to keep it real. I don’t have time to worry about what I’m projecting to the world. I’m just busy being myself.”

— Demi Lovato

163. “Live in Joy, In love, Even among those who hate. Live in joy, In health, Even among the afflicted. Live in joy, In peace, Even among the troubled. Look within. Be still. Free from fear and attachment, Know the sweet joy of living in the way.”

— Buddha

164. “The fastest way to get to a new-and-improved situation is to make peace with your current situation.”

— Esther Hicks

165. “Acceptance is the key to be truly free.”

— Katy Perry

166. “You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt with. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you’re holding and my dear one, you and I have been granted a mighty generous one.”

— Cheryl Strayed

167. “Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‘This is a misfortune’ but ‘To bear this worthily is good fortune.’”

— Marcus Aurelius

168. “Love yourself for who you are and just keep going.”

— Demi Lovato

169. “Be yourself. Embrace your quirks.”

— Ed Sheeran

170. “Leave life alone. Let it be.”

— Eckhart Tolle

171. “Accept yourself as you are right now; an imperfect, changing, growing and worthy person.”

— Denis Waitley

172. “If you desire with all your heart, friendship with every race on earth, your thought, spiritual and positive, will spread; it will become the desire of others, growing stronger and stronger, until it reaches the minds of all men.”

— Abdu'l-Bahá

173. “To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don’t wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.”

— Alan Cohen

174. “I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me. I am me, and I am Okay.”

— Virginia Satir

175. “I am perfect as I am. Everything in my life is working just the way it should. I am loved, and I am love.”

— Deepak Chopra

176. “Acceptance is the road to all change.”

— Bryant McGill

177. “Stop and appreciate what you have today. Look at what you have with wider eyes, maybe with more compassion and more gratitude for the things that you do have and not the things you don’t have.”

— Michael Imperioli

178. “Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest.”

— Sri Chinmoy

179. “Have only love in your heart for others. The more you see the good in them, the more you will establish good in yourself.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

180. “You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge. Apologize for mistakes. Apologize for unintentionally hurting someone – profusely. But don’t apologize for being who you are.”

— Danielle LaPorte

181. “Don’t undervalue yourself. God loves you. Your worth is what you are worth to God. Jesus died for you. You are of infinite value.”

— Nicky Gumbel

182. “Stop trying to ‘fix’ yourself; you’re NOT broken! You are perfectly imperfect and powerful beyond measure.”

— Steve Maraboli

183. “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

184. “Let us learn to live with kindness, to love everyone, even when they do not love us.”

— Pope Francis

185. “There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.”

— Paul the Apostle

186. “Spread out your petition before God, and then say, “Thy will, not mine, be done.” The sweetest lesson I have learned in God’s school is to let the Lord choose for me.”

— D.L. Moody

187. “Accept yourself, love yourself.”

— Chanel Iman

188. “No amount of self-improvement can make up for any lack of self-acceptance.”

— Robert Holden

189. “Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart.”

— Jim Henson

190. “Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not.”

— Ana Monnar

191. “Be yourself. Unapologetically.”

— Kesha

192. “The essence of all religions is love, compassion and tolerance. Kindness is my true religion. No matter whether you are learned or not, whether you believe in the next life or not, whether you believe in God or Buddha or some other religion or not, in day-to-day life you must be a kind person.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

193. “Don’t try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers everyday without forcing their buds.”

— Rajneesh

194. “You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.”

— John Green

195. “Patience is that the heart does not feel anger towards that which is destined and that the mouth does not complain.”

— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

196. “Be yourself. No one can say you’re doing it wrong.”

— Charles M. Schulz

197. “Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.”

— Saint Francis de Sales

198. “I’m proud of myself. I like the way I’m made.”

— Freida Pinto

199. “I love you just the way you are but you don’t see you like I do. You shouldn’t try so hard to be perfect. Trust me, perfect should try to be you.”

— Bo Burnham

200. “With genuine love and compassion, another person’s appearance or behavior has no effect on your attitude.”

— Dalai Lama XIV