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Welcome to these Hardens Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
Self-pity in its early stages
is as snug as a feather mattress.
Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
- Maya Angelou
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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
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- 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)
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
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- 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
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
Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
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
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
One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe
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
Value your own opinion more, and others' opinions less.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
You can't be everything to everyone.
- Bill Cosby
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,
while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer,
in my mind I am free.
- Stephen Hawking
Nothing is more valuable than your self respect.
When you lose respect for yourself, you have lost everything.
Whatever it takes, and whoever you upset,
do what you know - deep inside - is the right thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
- Leonardo da Vinci
When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life,
he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Albert Schweitzer
We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The minority is always stronger than the majority,
because the minority is generally formed by those
who really have an opinion.
- Soren Kierkegaard
What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
- Helen Keller
Whenever you do a thing,
act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Believe in yourself,
in your vision for your future
and in your ability to take a small step
each day toward achieving your vision.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You don't need anybody to tell you
who you are or what you are.
You are what you are!
- John Lennon
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
What you do speaks so loudly
that I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you are comes to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.
- Carl Lewis
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only
by the man who is as well organized
in his individuality as the mass itself.
- Carl Jung
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
What is necessary to change a person is
to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you,
but it is most important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Whatever happens, take responsibility.
- Tony Robbins
Your life belongs only to you.
- Ayn Rand
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
Most people don't CHOOSE their value system -
they simply inherit the beliefs of their parents and community.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus
No amount of self-improvement can make up
for a lack of self-acceptance.
- Anonymous
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
Our mettle is tested by storms,
not by calm.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
Once you label me, you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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