Acceptance Quote by Eric Hoffer

“avoid contempt, both of others and of yourself: what seems bad to you in yourself is purified by the very fact that you have…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Personal disillusionment accompanied by self-pity and self-loathing are the Achilles’ heel of modern humankind, representing the weakness of the human spirit.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“There is no way you can share your inner self because you are an object of contempt to yourself. When you are contemptible to…

— John Bradshaw

This sentiment of self-contempt is a frequent one in young people of both sexes. Their valuation of themselves varies as much as the barometer,…

— Humphry Davy

Not the least of the problems in clarifying one's consciousness is developing the stoic determination to criticize one's own softness or sentimentality toward oneself.…

— Kenny Smith

“Self-contempt is a serpent that ever gnaws at one's breath, sucking the life-blood from one's own heart and mixing it with the poison of…

— Karl Marx

“The more you view others’ mistreatment of you as something you have the ability to fix, tweak, or amend, the harder it is to…

— Jill P. Weber

“Genuine self esteem – please understand this – genuine self esteem is not competitive or comparative. Genuine self esteem isn’t expressed by self-glorification at…

— Nathaniel Branden

If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort…

— Joan Didion

“I wanted to show how humans can have ugly feelings that they might prefer not to acknowledge; how we’re all caught up in our…

— J. K. Rowling

Contempt of others is the truest symptom of a base and bad heart,--while it suggests itself to the mean and the vile, and tickles…

— Henry Fielding

“Our culture's response to egotism is as misguided as our approach to inadequacy. When people feel and act as if they're better than others—belittling…

— Ellen Tadd