Best Self Quotes - Page 2

• If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Love, Life, Self Esteem

  Barbara De Angelis (2009). “Real Moments for Lovers: The Enlightened Guide for Discovering Total Passion and True Intimacy”, p.20, Dell

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• When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

  Jean Shinoda Bolen

  Inspirational, Life, Attitude

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• Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

  Marianne Williamson

  Life, Confidence, Fear

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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• Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim.

  Tim Field

  Meaningful, Being Yourself, Bullying

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• Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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

  Arthur Ashe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Practice sharing the fullness of your being, your best self, your enthusiasm, your vitality, your spirit, your trust, your openness, above all, your presence. Share it with yourself, with your family, with the world.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Life, Self, Practice

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• It's not enough to just be yourself. You must be your best self

  Neil Strauss

  Being Yourself, Just Be Yourself, Enough

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• Your ultimate goal in life is to become your best self.  Your immediate goal is to get on the path that will lead you there.

  David Viscott

  Self, Goal, Path

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• You will be your best self when you take time to understand what you really need, feel and want.

  Deborah Day

  Self Esteem, Needs, Want

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• Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Being Yourself, Self, Imitator

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• Believe in yourself, work hard, work smart and passionately present your best self to the world.

  Hill Harper

  Smart, Believe, Hard Work

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• Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. Stop aspiring to be anyone other than your own best self: for that does fall within your control.

  Epictetus

  Lying, Fall, Self

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• In the search for our best selves, several questions will guide our thinking: Am I what I want to be? Am I closer to the Savior today than I was yesterday? Will I be closer yet tomorrow? Do I have the courage to change for the better?

  Thomas S. Monson

  Thinking, Self, Yesterday

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• I do feel there is a certain amount of distance and apathy that's created when you feel like there's a distance between you and the other people. So it's very easy to... when you have an app that sets it up where you very clearly swipe somebody's face off of your screen because you don't like the way they look, you're asking people to not appeal to their best selves. You're asking people to be brutal.

  Rashida Jones

  Distance, Self, People

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Choose to be entrepreneur because then YOU create value. Choose to be an entrepreneur because the products, services, and jobs you create then become the lifeblood of our nation. But most of all, choose to be an entrepreneur because then you desire a life of adventure, endless challenge, and the opportunity to be your BEST SELF.

  John Gokongwei

  Jobs, Adventure, Opportunity

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• I remember running down a road on my way to a nursery of flowers. I remember her smile and her laugh when I was my best self and she looked at me like I could do no wrong and was whole. I remember how she looked at me the same way even when I wasn't. I remember her hand in mine and how that felt, as if something and someone belonged to me.

  Jennifer Niven

  Running, Flower, Self

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• Charm might be described as enlightened self-interest, a development of one's best self. ... In the simplest possible terms, I think genuine charm is an unmotivated interest in others.

  Arlene Francis

  Thinking, Self, Might

  Arlene Francis (1960). “That Certain Something; the Magic of Charm”

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• I am my best self when I have super short hair. That’s when I feel most like me and most confidant.

  Halle Berry

  Hair, Self, Feels

  "Halle Berry On How She Went Short, Advice For Her Daughter Nahla, And Owning A Whole Lot Of Flip-Flops". Interview with Dana Oliver, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2012.

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• [In the moment of reading writer and reader] are both briefly their best selves, or at least better selves. A flawed human being writes something and 60 years later a reader picks up the book and something in them rises to meet it.

  George Saunders

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• At midlife, you're pregnant with the best self you can be - someone who has learned enough from both successes and failures to add up to a fine human being.

  Marianne Williamson

  Self, Midlife, Add

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Go ahead: Live with abandon. Be outrageous at any age. What are you saving your best self for?

  Oprah Winfrey

  Self, Age, Saving

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• You are your best self when you give yourself away.

  Karen Armstrong

  Self, Giving

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• A lot of people hurl themselves into relationships to lose themselves, but I think the best relationships help us to be more ourselves, to bring forth our best selves.

  Caroline Leavitt

  Thinking, Self, People

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• Sometimes people ask what it was like when I got to meet Mick Jagger, and I must admit that you just try and chill out and be your best self around anyone that you meet.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Self, People, Trying

  Interview with Melissa Locker, www.believermag.com. September 2014.

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