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

Related topics: Wisdom Life Human-Nature Psychology Inspirational Positive Values Self Self-Esteem Approval Pride

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

The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.
- Carl Lewis

Believe in yourself. Have faith in your abilities.
Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers
you cannot be successful or happy.
- Norman Vincent Peale

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson

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 way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller

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

The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people
is that they trigger confusion in us
that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with.
To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves,
we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.
- Pema Chodron

The secret of making dreams come true
can be summarized in four C's.
They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy;
and the greatest of these is Confidence.
- Walt Disney

The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre

Jealousy is the result of one's lack
of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance.
- Sasha Azevedo

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

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

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

May you soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You are to have implicit confidence in your own ability,
knowing that it is the nature of thought
to externalize itself in your health and affairs,
knowing that you are the thinker.
- Ernest Holmes

If you have no confidence in self,
you are twice defeated in the race of life.
With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

We may not always be aware of it, but we all create
and repeat affirmations constantly.
The problem is, we typically don't pay attention
to exactly what those affirmations are saying.
Often we go through the day giving ourselves
all sorts of contradictory, or even negative messages.
We may project confidence to the world around us,
while our inner dialogue says...
I hope this works.
I am so nervous about this.
I hope I don't blow it.
Affirmations are self fulfilling prophecies.
If we say, This is never going to work
... then chances are excellent it never will.
- John Assaraf

Self Quotes and Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Freedom is from within.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

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

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

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

At the Core of Our Suffering
are those Self-Imposed Limitations (Assumptions)
of which We are Completely Unaware.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

I have spent many years of my life in opposition,
and I rather like the role.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

The freedom we are looking for
is the freedom to be ourselves,
to express ourselves. But if we look at our lives
we will see that most of the time
we do things just to please others ...
The worst part is that most of us
are not even aware that we are not free.
-Don Miguel Ruiz

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

Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln

Interdependence is and ought to be
as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
Man is a social being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead

This is your day to Laugh at Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

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

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is,
a dissatisfaction with self.
- Joan Didion

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

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      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie