Top 50 Acceptance Quotes to Find Peace

“The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.”

— Nathaniel Branden

“Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward.”

— Roy T. Bennett

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What self-acceptance does is open up more possibilities of succeeding because you aren’t fighting yourself along the way.”

— Shannon Ables

“I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.”

— Brené Brown

“Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.”

— Brené Brown

“Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise, you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.”

— Maxwell Maltz

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

— Robert Holden

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

— Rumi

“Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.”

— Nathaniel Branden

“Change is the essence of life; be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become.”

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.”

— William James

“Change what cannot be accepted and accept what cannot be changed.”

— Anonymous

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”

— Carl Jung

“Some 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

“We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.”

— Joseph Campbell

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality.”

— Lao Tzu

“Acceptance does not 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

“The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.”

— Kakuzo Okakura

“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Forgiveness is the final form of love.”

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you learned it.”

— Maya Angelou

“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was you.”

— Lewis B. Smedes

“Without forgiveness, life is governed by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.”

— Roberto Assagioli

“Forgiveness means letting go of the hope for a better past.”

— Lama Surya Das

“Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.”

— Oprah Winfrey

“We think that forgiveness is a weakness, but it’s absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.”

— T. D. Jakes

“Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

“Sincere forgiveness isn’t colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don’t worry whether or not they understand you. Love them and release them.”

— Sara Paddison

“Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.”

— Steve Maraboli

“Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.”

— Eckhart Tolle

“By letting go, it all gets done.”

— Lao Tzu

“Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open.”

— Ralph Marston

“Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.”

— Hermann Hesse

“There’s a trick to the graceful exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, or a relationship is over—and to let go. It means leaving what’s over without denying its value.”

— Ellen Goodman

“You only lose what you cling to.”

— Buddha

“In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.”

— Deepak Chopra

“Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox.”

— Tony Schwartz

“Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

“Serenity comes when you trade expectations for acceptance.”

— Buddha

“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”

— Buddha

“The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.”

— Brian Tracy

“Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgment of the facts of a situation, then deciding what you’re going to do about it.”

— Kathleen Casey Theisen

“For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“What you deny or ignore, you delay. What you accept and face, you conquer.”

— Robert Tew

“Happiness can exist only in acceptance.”

— George Orwell

“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow—this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Acceptance doesn’t mean you like a situation. It just means you acknowledge what is.”

— Anonymous