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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

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)

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

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz

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

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

What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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.

Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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 greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

I sail the seas of life as the MASTER of my ship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

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

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

Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart

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

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

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

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

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 by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- Joseph Campbell

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If a man does his best, what else is there?
- George S. Patton

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

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

What you think of me is none of my business.
- Terry Cole-Whittaker

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe,
that lures him to evil ways.
- The Buddha

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important
as what you become by achieving your goals.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

Do you want to know who you are?
Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson

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

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

What you do speaks so loudly
that I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer

Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey

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

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