Self Quote of the Day

Welcome to these Self Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.

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

Related topics: Positive Inspirational Motivational Choice Honor

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

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

 

You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill

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

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- 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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates

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

When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz

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

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual,
you have an obligation to be one.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

The minority is always stronger than the majority,
because the minority is generally formed by those
who really have an opinion.
- Soren Kierkegaard

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

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Khalil Gibran

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

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

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

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

Believe in yourself, and trust your own wisdom
rather than being swayed by the opinions of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You can have no dominion greater or
less than that over yourself.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller

Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind.
- 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

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

We should be too big to take offense
and too noble to give it.
- Abraham Lincoln

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer

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

Society is a masked ball,
where every one hides his real character,
and reveals it by hiding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

No amount of self-improvement can make up
for a lack of self-acceptance.
- Anonymous

Never allow a person to tell you NO
who doesn't have the power to say YES.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Inferiority Complex:
a name for not loving yourself enough.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell

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

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man loses pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau

If you don't take full responsibility
for your own happiness,
who do you suppose will?
Your happiness is a one person job -
it begins and ends with you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is not fair to ask of others
what you are not willing to do yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare

Whenever you do a thing,
act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson

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

We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you,
but it is most important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Your life belongs only to you.
- Ayn Rand

Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin

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