Self Quotes - Page 3

• Only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Respect, Self Esteem, Compelled

  "The Insulted and the Injured". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1861.

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• Scarcity of self value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention or influence.

  Gary Zukav

  Self Esteem, Loving Life, Attention

  Gary Zukav, Linda Francis (2007). “The Mind of the Soul: Responsible Choice”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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  Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

  Bernard Baruch

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

  Mark Twain

  Confidence, Good Life, Inspirational Life

  Mark Twain (2015). “Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays”, p.14, 谷月社

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• Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem. We cannot draw to ourselves more than we think we are worth.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Self Esteem, Believe, Self Worth

  "Bamboolizing Black America: Classified". Book by E. Malcolm Wise, 2013.

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• The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Keep Smiling, Peaceful, World

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• Nothing destroys self-worth, self-acceptance and self-love faster than denying what you feel. Without feelings, you would not know where you are in life. Nor would you know what areas you need to work on. Honor your feelings. Allow yourself to feel them.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Recovery, Loss, Acceptance

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Nov 28, 2016

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• Conquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength

  Laozi

  Motivational, Strength, Wisdom

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• To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Graduation, Honesty

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• Don't forget your own self while preaching to others.

  Umar

  Inspiring, Forget You, Preaching

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• Self-esteem is as necessary to the spirit as food is to the body.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Self Esteem, Love Yourself, Loving Yourself

  Maxwell Maltz (2002). “New Psycho-Cybernetics”, p.170, Penguin

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• Even when our eyes are closed, there's a whole world that exists outside ourselves and our dreams.

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Inspirational, Dream, Eye

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• Integrity means that you are the same in public as you are in private.

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Being Yourself, Honesty

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  Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Our past experiences may have made us the way we are, but we don't have to stay that way.

  Joyce Meyer

  Change, Past, Personality

  Twitter post from May 2, 2012

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• Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Light Life

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• I tell you that victory consists in conquering self. That is the greatest enemy.

  Paul of the Cross

  Catholic, Enemy, Victory

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• Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.

  Thomas Paine

  Self Esteem, Fighting, People

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• This above all; to thine own self be true.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "A Miscellany (A Poet's Advice to Students)". Book by E. E. Cummings edited by George James Firmage, 1958.

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• I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.

  Billie Jean King

  Success, Motivational Sports, Women

  "The New Edge in Sports Performance and Results" by Howard Falco, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 22, 2015.

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• People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

  Thomas Szasz

  Life, Wisdom, Creating

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (2004). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.139, Transaction Publishers

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• The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Self Esteem, Keys, Behavior Change

  MAXWELL MALTZ, M.D.,F.I.C.S. (1960). “PSYCHO-CYBERNETICS”

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• If you are willing to look at another person's behavior toward you as a reflection of the state of their relationship with themselves rather than a statement about your value as a person. then you will, over a period of time, cease to react at all.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Relationship, Spiritual

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  The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

  Jane Addams

  Honesty, Integrity, Character

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