Self Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Self
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie 
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
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.
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus
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
What is necessary to change a person is
to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow
So your father, or your mother,
never thought you were good enough - SO WHAT?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Believe in yourself, and trust your own wisdom
rather than being swayed by the opinions of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do you want to know who you are?
Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives
is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
- Brian Tracy
The promises we makes to ourselves are the things
that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
Your informed, "no," to a particular service
allows another to offer their
gifted and unreserved, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,
while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserves your love and affection.
- The Buddha
The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
Never allow a person to tell you NO
who doesn't have the power to say YES.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
We seek opinions that are likely to
support what we want to be true.
- Thomas Gilovich
Inferiority Complex:
a name for not loving yourself enough.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Resilience is about believing in yourself,
and trusting your own wisdom rather than
being swayed by the opinions of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't let praise or criticism get to you.
It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- John Wooden
When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies
It is not fair to ask of others
what you are not willing to do yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Society is a masked ball,
where every one hides his real character,
and reveals it by hiding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You don't need anybody to tell you
who you are or what you are.
You are what you are!
- John Lennon
The whole world can gossip about you,
and if you don't take it personally you are immune.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Since you are the one who has to live with your choices,
be sure they are your own.
- Alan Cohen
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
- Michael Jordan
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Remember that nurturing yourself is as important
(if not more so) as nurturing others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
What you are comes to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once you label me, you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
You can have no dominion greater or
less than that over yourself.
- Leonardo da Vinci
What we call human nature in actuality is human habit.
- Jewel
The minority is always stronger than the majority,
because the minority is generally formed by those
who really have an opinion.
- Soren Kierkegaard
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
WHY do you care what THEY think?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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