Trophies Quotes

If self-validation were our
most significant societal measure -
we would give trophies to ourselves.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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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

I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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)

Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary

Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln

Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden

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

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.

One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe

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

This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare

Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard

I sail the seas of life as the MASTER of my ship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- 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

A man who as a physical being
is always turned toward the outside,
thinking that his happiness lies outside him,
finally turns inward and
discovers that the source is within him.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner

No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- Joseph Campbell

If you take the responsibility for your life,
you can start changing it.
- Osho

Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

What we call human nature in actuality is human habit.
- Jewel

To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous

Society censors our actions,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin

We seek opinions that are likely to
support what we want to be true.
- Thomas Gilovich

You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln

Once you label me, you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard

You don't need anybody to tell you
who you are or what you are.
You are what you are!
- John Lennon

The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
- Albert Einstein

You can't let praise or criticism get to you.
It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- John Wooden

Remember that nurturing yourself is as important
(if not more so) as nurturing others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life,
he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Albert Schweitzer

Value your own opinion more, and others' opinions less.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do you want to know who you are?
Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson

Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you are comes to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Since you are the one who has to live with your choices,
be sure they are your own.
- Alan Cohen

If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.
- Carl Lewis

Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin

When I'm trusting and being myself...
everything in my life reflects this
by falling into place easily, often miraculously.
- Shakti Gawain

Nothing is ever absolutely "wrong."
"Wrong" is in the cultural tradition of the beholder.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie

No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus

So your father, or your mother,
never thought you were good enough - SO WHAT?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder

You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore

The Four Agreements
1.Be impeccable with your word.
2.Don't take anything personally.
3.Don't make assumptions.
4.Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz

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

When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz

No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie