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When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu
Related topics: Wisdom Honor Self
Be simply yourself and don't compare or compete.
- Lao Tzu
A competent and self-confident person is
incapable of jealousy in anything.
Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
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
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
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
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
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
I sail the seas of life as the MASTER of my ship.
- 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
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
The minority is always stronger than the majority,
because the minority is generally formed by those
who really have an opinion.
- Soren Kierkegaard
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,
while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
Inferiority Complex:
a name for not loving yourself enough.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life,
he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Albert Schweitzer
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
You can't be everything to everyone.
- Bill Cosby
The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
What you do speaks so loudly
that I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Remember that nurturing yourself is as important
(if not more so) as nurturing others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu
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
Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies
We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln
Our mettle is tested by storms,
not by calm.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your time is limited,
so don't waste it living someone else's life.
- Steve Jobs
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
- Leonardo da Vinci
When I'm trusting and being myself...
everything in my life reflects this
by falling into place easily, often miraculously.
- Shakti Gawain
You are today where your thoughts have brought.
- James Allen
Whenever you do a thing,
act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual,
you have an obligation to be one.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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 you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
Resilience is about believing in yourself,
and trusting your own wisdom rather than
being swayed by the opinions of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
- Michael Jordan
The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- e. e. cummings
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
The Four Agreements
1.Be impeccable with your word.
2.Don't take anything personally.
3.Don't make assumptions.
4.Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The higher the sun rises, the less shadow it casts;
even so, the greater is the goodness, the less it covets praise;
yet cannot avoid its rewards in honors.
- Lao Tzu
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
So your father, or your mother,
never thought you were good enough - SO WHAT?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Once you label me, you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives
is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
- Brian Tracy
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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