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Welcome to these Awash Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
I'm awash in self-contempt!
- the Woody Allen movie Celebrity
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Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- 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
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
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)
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
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
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
I sail the seas of life as the MASTER of my ship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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.
Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 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
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
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
We seek opinions that are likely to
support what we want to be true.
- Thomas Gilovich
When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
Never allow a person to tell you NO
who doesn't have the power to say YES.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
What we call human nature in actuality is human habit.
- Jewel
March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb
The minority is always stronger than the majority,
because the minority is generally formed by those
who really have an opinion.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Inferiority Complex:
a name for not loving yourself enough.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Once you label me, you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Gain happiness by living in the present -
without regret for the past or fear of the future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
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
Since you are the one who has to live with your choices,
be sure they are your own.
- Alan Cohen
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
What is necessary to change a person is
to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,
while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
Our mettle is tested by storms,
not by calm.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
Resilience is about believing in yourself,
and trusting your own wisdom rather than
being swayed by the opinions of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
- Albert Einstein
Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller
The whole world can gossip about you,
and if you don't take it personally you are immune.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you,
but it is most important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies
Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
What you are comes to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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