Self Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Self

Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz

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

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

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

This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare

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

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

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

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

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

Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb

Make your "yes" mean yes,
and your "no" mean no.
- John Wooden

You are important. You are the star -
the only star - of your own life show.
Everyone else is a bit player in the great drama of your life.
Be of service to humanity, but never be anyone's doormat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

He who lives in harmony with himself
lives in harmony with the universe.
- Marcus Aurelius

Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy

We disrespect ourselves and our free-will
whenever we say that we NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis

Make the most of yourself,
for that is all there is of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter

We all go through life bristling
at our external limitations,
but the most difficult chains
to break are inside us.
- Bradley Whitford

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.

We must be our own before we can be another's.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Freedom is from within.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

You get what you settle for.
- the character Louise in the movie Thelma and Louise

Don't look for approval from anyone other than yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Every man has his own courage,
and is betrayed because he seeks in himself
the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

I have a great deal of company in the house,
especially in the morning when nobody calls.
- Henry David Thoreau

Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus

One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe

A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz

I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.
- Danny Kaye

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau

Ninety-nine percent of who you are
is invisible and untouchable.
- R. Buckminster Fuller

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine.
But you have to forgive yourself.
Let go of what's bitter and move on.
- Bill Cosby

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

Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire

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

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself,
than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
- Henry David Thoreau

Free-Will is the key to the prison of the mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky

It is not fair to ask of others
what you are not willing to do yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

It is not our abilities that show what we truly are.
It is our choices.
- the movie Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

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

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

Guilt is about actions or behavior;
while shame is about the self.
- "Dr. Sanity"

Once you label me, you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard

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

Once you respect yourself, there is no longer
any reason to disrespect anyone else.
Once you are confident of your own worthiness,
the worthiness of others ceases to be an issue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu

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

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

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

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

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

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

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder

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

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

Who sows virtue reaps honor.
- Leonardo da Vinci

We should be too big to take offense
and too noble to give it.
- Abraham Lincoln

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

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