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Self Quotes and Sayings (2)
Quotes about Self

May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
May you delight in Dancing Lightly With Life.
May you soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world.
May you always sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
May you taste, smell, and touch your dreams of a beautiful tomorrow.
May your sun always shine, and your sky be forever blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau

Related topics: Wisdom Action

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

You can't be everything to everyone.
- Bill Cosby

March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb

 

When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda

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

Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect,
and the absence of ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
- Helen Keller

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

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,
while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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

What we call human nature in actuality is human habit.
- Jewel

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

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

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

No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero

Without deep reflection,
one knows from daily life
that one exists for other people.
- Albert Einstein

Who sows virtue reaps honor.
- Leonardo da Vinci

You are today where your thoughts have brought.
- James Allen

WHY do you care what THEY think?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength
which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
- Marcus Aurelius

Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

We seek opinions that are likely to
support what we want to be true.
- Thomas Gilovich

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
- Epictetus

Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

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

You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln

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

Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln

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

I am the lord of myself, accountable to none.
- Benjamin Franklin

Resilience is about believing in yourself,
and trusting your own wisdom rather than
being swayed by the opinions of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life,
he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Albert Schweitzer

You don't need anybody to tell you
who you are or what you are.
You are what you are!
- John Lennon

Your time is limited,
so don't waste it living someone else's life.
- Steve Jobs

What you are comes to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your life is the fruit of your own doing.
You have no one to blame but yourself.
- Joseph Campbell

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates

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

Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill

What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary

Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard

No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Your informed, "no," to a particular service
allows another to offer their
gifted and unreserved, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

I do myself a greater injury in lying
than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
- Michel de Montaigne

To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous

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

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

The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore

With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono

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

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

No one was ever named HERO for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
- Michael Jordan

People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

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

Since you are the one who has to live with your choices,
be sure they are your own.
- Alan Cohen

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

Remember that nurturing yourself is as important
(if not more so) as nurturing others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

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

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- e. e. cummings

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