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Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Related topics: Values Motivational Life Human-Nature Psychology Live-By Self Self-Confidence
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
So your father, or your mother,
never thought you were good enough - SO WHAT?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't take rejection personally.
Don't let someone else's bad day spoil your day.
As long as you never reject yourself, you'll be fine.
- 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
Insult comes not from the mouth,
but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Inferiority Complex:
a name for not loving yourself enough.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
No amount of self-improvement can make up
for a lack of self-acceptance.
- Anonymous
I am what I am.
- Village People
If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter
Once you respect yourself, there is no longer
any reason to disrespect anyone else.
Once you are confident of your own worthiness,
the worthiness of others ceases to be an issue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Loneliness is not what it seems.
One does not feel lonely because one is alone,
but because of a feeling of lack -
a feeling that something is missing.
Loneliness is essentially independent
of how many other humans are around.
It has much more to do with one's self-esteem -
one's sense of inherent worth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
While it is natural to feel some degree of
need for the approval of others, be careful.
If you find yourself unwilling to
take actions that others disapprove of,
you have lost control of your own life
and have given your destiny to others.
An excessive need-for-approval
is a sign of low self-esteem,
and in severe cases, a condition termed co-dependency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
A working definition of Honor is,
"respect or esteem that has been earned."
Contemplate that for a moment.
It would be very special to earn the respect and esteem
of our family, our friends, our co-workers, our community, wouldn't it?
If anything, it is of even more moment to honor yourself.
Those who are successful and happy earn their own
self-respect and self-esteem.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Self-honor (self-respect) is in no way selfish.
Before I can give to others,
I must have something to give.
Only by first creating
my own self-esteem and happiness,
do I possess the resources to
contribute anything meaningful to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.
- George Carlin
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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)
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
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
One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe
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.
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- 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
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
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
I sail the seas of life as the MASTER of my ship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Your time is limited,
so don't waste it living someone else's life.
- Steve Jobs
Never allow a person to tell you NO
who doesn't have the power to say YES.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We are what we pretend to be,
so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut
When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu
Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength
which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
- Marcus Aurelius
Gain happiness by living in the present -
without regret for the past or fear of the future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln
The higher the sun rises, the less shadow it casts;
even so, the greater is the goodness, the less it covets praise;
yet cannot avoid its rewards in honors.
- Lao Tzu
Your life is the fruit of your own doing.
You have no one to blame but yourself.
- Joseph Campbell
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
You have to leave the city of your comfort
and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
What you'll discover will be wonderful.
What you'll discover is yourself.
- Alan Alda
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
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect,
and the absence of ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
We should be too big to take offense
and too noble to give it.
- Abraham Lincoln
There's a point... when you have to choose
whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life,
or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important
as what you become by achieving your goals.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- Joseph Campbell
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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