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Welcome to these Spoil Quotes of the Day from my large collection of positive, romantic, and funny quotes.
Don't take rejection personally.
Don't let someone else's bad day spoil your day.
As long as you never reject yourself, you'll be fine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Related topics: Positive Self-Esteem
Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish -
too much handling will spoil it.
- Lao Tzu
I am a self-centered spoiled-rotten brat,
Thank you for nurturing me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
- Mark Twain
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- 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
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)
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
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 greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
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
Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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.
I sail the seas of life as the MASTER of my ship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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 way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have no need to conform to the stereotypes
others have defined for me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is ever absolutely "wrong."
"Wrong" is in the cultural tradition of the beholder.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
Our mettle is tested by storms,
not by calm.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
The minority is always stronger than the majority,
because the minority is generally formed by those
who really have an opinion.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus
Your life is the fruit of your own doing.
You have no one to blame but yourself.
- Joseph Campbell
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual,
you have an obligation to be one.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not fair to ask of others
what you are not willing to do yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
Once you label me, you negate me.
- 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
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
- Albert Einstein
I do myself a greater injury in lying
than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
- Michel de Montaigne
You can't be everything to everyone.
- Bill Cosby
Do you want to know who you are?
Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
What you are comes to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
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
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
With realization of one's own potential and
self-confidence in one's ability,
one can build a better world.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What we call human nature in actuality is human habit.
- Jewel
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
You don't need anybody to tell you
who you are or what you are.
You are what you are!
- John Lennon
No amount of self-improvement can make up
for a lack of self-acceptance.
- Anonymous
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect,
and the absence of ego.
- 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
Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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