To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas
he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
- Thomas Jefferson
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The self-assured believer is a greater sinner
in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever
- Soren Kierkegaard
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect
and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance,
as is every other life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I sail the seas of life as the MASTER of my ship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Grin your smile; giggle your laugh; unfurl your joy;
dash the last trace of your self-consciousness;
and cavort your most uninhibited play.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard
If a man loses pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau
We seek opinions that are likely to
support what we want to be true.
- Thomas Gilovich
March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
We should be too big to take offense
and too noble to give it.
- Abraham Lincoln
You don't need anybody to tell you
who you are or what you are.
You are what you are!
- John Lennon
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
You can't be everything to everyone.
- Bill Cosby
Your life is the fruit of your own doing.
You have no one to blame but yourself.
- Joseph Campbell
It is not fair to ask of others
what you are not willing to do yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength
which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
- Marcus Aurelius
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
Value your own opinion more, and others' opinions less.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You are today where your thoughts have brought.
- James Allen
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
If you don't take full responsibility
for your own happiness,
who do you suppose will?
Your happiness is a one person job -
it begins and ends with you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your time is limited,
so don't waste it living someone else's life.
- Steve Jobs
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life,
he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Albert Schweitzer
Society censors our actions,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
So your father, or your mother,
never thought you were good enough - SO WHAT?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I do myself a greater injury in lying
than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
- Michel de Montaigne
When I'm trusting and being myself...
everything in my life reflects this
by falling into place easily, often miraculously.
- Shakti Gawain
Be yourself. There is nothing more for you to do
than to be the best YOU that you can be -
with no imitation, no pretense, no guilt, no shame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Resilience is about believing in yourself,
and trusting your own wisdom rather than
being swayed by the opinions of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is necessary to change a person is
to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important
as what you become by achieving your goals.
- Henry David Thoreau
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
- Helen Keller
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
Without deep reflection,
one knows from daily life
that one exists for other people.
- Albert Einstein
What we call human nature in actuality is human habit.
- Jewel
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.
- Carl Lewis
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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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