self quotes

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

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Believe you can and you're halfway there.

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Your value doesn't decrease based on someones inability to see your worth.

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Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

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If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

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It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.

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Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

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It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves.

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The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.

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When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.

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One day you'll wake up and there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted

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You're imperfect, and you're wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging. The power of vulnerability.

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People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

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Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

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Only make decisions that support your self-image, self-esteem, and self-worth.

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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us.

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Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.

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Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

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You must have a positive self perception in order to transcend anything.

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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

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The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

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Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

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Formal education will make you a living. Self education will make you a fortune.

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Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.

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The strongest factor...is self-esteem believing you can do it, believing you deserve it, believing you will get it.

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Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

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Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

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Excessive fear and self-doubt that were the greatest detractors of personal genius.

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One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. How to do it?

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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

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look for a long time at what pleases you, and longer still at what pains you...

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A traumatic event doesn't doom us to suffer indefinitely. Instead, we can use it as a springboard to unleash our best qualities and lead happier lives.

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The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.

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They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

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Self-worth comes from one thing -- thinking that you are worthy.

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It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

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I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.

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The tension between "yes" and "no," between "I can" and "I cannot," makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.

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When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.

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My journey wasn't just about the research, it was about finding my passion, and it was about making my own opportunities.

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Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly. It reminds us that we know we can do better.

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Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

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We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.

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One is rated by others as he rates himself.

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This above all; to thine own self be true.

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The secret to happiness is low expectations.

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You must look at who you are and make an effort to know yourself, which is the most difficult knowledge one can imagine.

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Your job is not to be perfect. Your job is only to be human.

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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

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I will give thanks to thee for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are Thy works, and my soul knows it very well. Psalms 139:14

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Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.

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Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

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To say I love you one must know first how to say the I.

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Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

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No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

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It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

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Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

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Study to be what you wish to seem.

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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

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No man will work for your interests unless they are his.

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Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.

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You save yourself or you remain unsaved.

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Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

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Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

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Looking at the world from other species' points of view is a cure for the disease of human self-importance.

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Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.

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The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.

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Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for.

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I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.

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Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage.

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A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.

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Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.

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The most sublime act is to set another before you.

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When we numb [hard feelings], we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness.

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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.

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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

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He who is wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package.

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My self-editing process is intense.

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A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves.

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Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.

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If you put shame in a Petri dish, it needs three things to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence and judgment.

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To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

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If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

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We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.

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Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.

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If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.

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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.Being true to anyone else or anything else is...impossible.

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The point isn't to live without any regrets. The point is to not hate ourselves for having them.

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When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves.

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When you look at the Moon, you think, 'I'm really small. What are my problems?' It sets things into perspective. We should all look at the Moon a bit more often.

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So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

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Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit

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Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

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Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

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I have often wondered how it is everyone loves himself more than the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than the opinions of others.

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