900 Best Never Water Yourself Down Quotes (2023)
1. “Be kind to yourself. to others and everything around you.” – Alexandra Stoddard.
2. “Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” — Rumi
3. “You drown not by falling into a river. but by staying submerged in it.”
4. “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.” -Rumi
5. “To be beautiful means to be yourself.You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself… True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself.”- Thích Nhất Hạnh, The Art of Power
6. “Aim for the moon. If you miss. you may hit a star. So always keep believing in yourself.”
7. “Not a lot of people have the courage to say what they’re actually thinking.”
8. “Once you know yourself, you won’t have to listen to others.” – Gautama Buddha
9. “We must never be afraid to be a sign of contradiction for the world.” – Mother Teresa
10. “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.” – J. M. Barrie
11. “Man is not going to wait passively for millions of years before evolution offers him a better brain.” – Corneliu E Giurgea
12. “Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the rally great make you believe that you too can be great.” – Mark Twain
13. “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” – Babe Ruth
14. Work hard every day. No matter what your strengths and weaknesses, there's no substitute for hard work. — Hope Solo
15. “Believing in yourself and having confidence gives you outer strength.” ~ Nikki Bella
16. “In order to write about life first you must live it.”
17. “If they don’t know your value. they won’t understand your price.” -Unknown
18. “Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.”
19. The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated.
20. “The French have the reputation of being arrogant. I don’t think it’s arrogance but a certain authenticity.” -Simon Baker
21. “You have to apply yourself each day to becoming a little better. By becoming a little better each and every day, over a period of time, you will become a lot better.” — John Wooden
22. “Never let the opinion of another affect your opinion of yourself.”― Teresa Mummert
23. “Imperfect parenting moments turn into gifts as our children watch us try to figure out what went wrong and how we can do better next time.”
24. “You’re always going to face criticism. you’re always going to face challenges. but those things are there to make you stronger and more committed.” ~ David Robinson. Believe In Yourself quotes criticism
25. “When you see a mob doing something. it should make you less likely to do it yourself. not more likely.” —Paul Graham
26. Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it. —Anonymous
27. “Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.” – James Stephens
28. “We’re a nation of exhausted and over-stressed adults raising over-scheduled children.”
29. “Being yourself is the greatest gift you can give yourself and the world because the world needs more authentic and real souls.” ― Hiral Nagda
30. ”Be as bold as the first man or [woman] to eat an oyster.” - Shirley Chisolm
31. “You are the only one who can limit your greatness. Remember that you are enough.” – UpJourney
32. “Wisdom is the daughter of experience.”
33. “Confidence will make you happier than any diet.” -unknown
34. “Let him who would move the world first move himself.” – Socrates
35. “Once we believe in ourselves. we can risk curiosity. wonder. spontaneous delight. or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” –E.E. Cummings
36. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” — George Bernard Shaw
37. “Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it’s what you believe. and the heck with everybody.”
38. Flower takes time to bloom, so do you
39. “Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
40. “It’s surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you’re not comfortable within yourself, you can’t be comfortable with others.” – Sidney J. Harris
41. ″‘Once upon a time. ’ he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best. the most powerful words that he knew and just the saying of them comforted him.”
42. “A person who is truly cool is a work of art. And remember the original works of art cost exponentially higher than imitations. Just take a look at the coolest people in history. They will always be a part of history for being extremely original individuals. not imitations.” – Suzy Kassem
43. “Your self-worth grows when you fight for something you love.” – Maxime Lagacé
44. “Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.”
45. “It aint what they call you, its what you answer to.” – W.C. Fields
46. “I define vulnerability as uncertainty. risk and emotional exposure. With that definition in mind. let’s think about love. Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back. whose safety we can’t ensure. who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment’s notice. who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow — that’s vulnerability.”
47. “Follow effective actions with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.”
48. “Don’t try to win over the haters; you are not a jackass whisperer.”- Brené Brown
49. Life is about courage and going into the unknown.
50. “Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.” — William Shakespeare
51. “Sometimes it isn’t fighting that’s brave. it’s facing the death you know is coming.” – Veronica Roth
52. Quiet Your Mind
53. “It’s the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.” – Xiaolu Guo
54. “Having a low opinion of yourself is not “modesty”. It’s self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not “egotism”. It’s a necessary precondition to happiness and success.” – Bobbe Sommer
55. “There is nothing more awful. insulting. and depressing than banality.”– Anton Chekhov
56. Often, in the real world, it's not the smart that get ahead but the bold.
57. “First know yourself. then know others.” – Gichin Funakoshi
58. I know what it means to go to the stream to fetch water. . . what it means when people are poor and don't have enough to eat. It's not enough to say you know about poverty. You have to live it. - Author: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
59. I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time. -Anne Freud
60. “Be a life-long learner. Whether you are seeking to achieve peace and harmony, learn a new technology to do your work faster, or design a strategy to blow your competitors out of the water, retraining is a pivotal way to strengthen your knowledge and realize your goals.”―Susan C. Young
61. You are enough because you make me enough for you!
62. “When you start living the life of your dreams. there will always be obstacles. doubters. mistakes and setbacks along the way. But with hard work. perseverance and self-belief there is no limit to what you can achieve.” – Roy T. Bennett
63. “The idea that we need to “pay our dues” is a lie told to us by people who want our labor on the cheap.” – Codie Sanchez
64. A title or promotion does not make anyone a leader. Leadership emerges from the character, qualities, and capacities of the individual. Make no mistake about it, authentic leadership is personal. - Author: George B. Bradt
65. “We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before “arriving.” – Napoleon Hill
66. “I'm all about good vibes. big goals. amazing experiences. more happiness. less pain. healthy relationships and staying focused on what matters.”
67. “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” ― Anaïs Nin
68. “Follow your dreams. believe in yourself and don’t give up.” – Rachel Corrie
69. “Qualities die for want of attention. so any unlovely state might best be rubbed out by imagining “beauty for ashes and joy for mourning” rather than by direct attacks on the state from which we would be free.”
70. “Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?” – Ian Wallace
71. “To learn to love yourself could be the hardest thing that you will ever do.”
72. “As soon as you begin to love yourself, the war within will end” – Laura Chouette
73. “There is a real danger of unintended consequences, of encouraging people to give up. Pessimism, if it becomes a habit, can reinforce a narrative of unstoppable decline. If there is nothing we can do, that releases us from our obligations.” David Grinspoon
74. “It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.” —Sally Field
75. “How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults. or resolution enough to mend them.” – Benjamin Franklin
76. “I will say this for you Warrior. you do not lack boldness.”
77. ‘You are. ’ he said fiercely. looking at her. ‘You’re worth it.‘”
78. But here’s the deal, sweet stranger. You deserve to be the protagonist of your own wonderful, bizarre, terrifying little life. If you decide you are enough, you are enough. You don’t need to wait for some grand external validation of your worth before you offer your kindest heart to yourself. – Kathy Brown
79. Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It’s about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let out true selves be seen.
80. “Doing something out of fear is not really doing it at all. We must do things because we want to.” – Frida Kahlo
81. “I believe great people do things before they are ready.” Amy Poehler
82. “Be Kind if you wish to stand Unique!” – Somya Kedia
83. “She’d also called me brave...unless she was talking to the catfish.”
84. “You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right here.” — Venus Williams
85. “There are some values that you should never compromise on to stay true to yourself; you should be brave to stand up for what you truly believe in even if you stand alone.”
86. “Not caring is absolute freedom. and if you own it. all the way. it emits supreme confidence.” ― A.D. Aliwat. Alpha
87. “Noble and great. Courageous and determined. Faithful and fearless. That is who you are and who you have always been. And understanding it can change your life because this knowledge carries a confidence that cannot be duplicated any other way.” —Sheri L. Drew, author and editor
88. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sail. Explore. Dream. Discover. -Mark Twain
89. “I believe there’s an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.” – Sylvester Stallone
90. “Be bad. but at least don’t be a liar. a deceiver!”
91. “Don’t doubt yourself, that’s what haters are for.”― Turcois Ominek
92. “Don’t be afraid of being different. be afraid of being the same as everyone else.”
93. “Better to be a nerd than one of the herd!” – Mandy Hale
94. “There won’t be so much fake and toxic love if everyone feels adequately loved by themselves because love is not something shared by two starved people. it is an experience between two filled people.”
95. Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings. - Dr. Asa Don Brown.
96. She leaves a little sparkle wherever she goes.
97. “We do not have the right to feel helpless. We must help ourselves. After destiny has delivered what it delivers, we are responsible for our lives.” – Cheryl Strayed
98. “Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste. like caviar.”
99. Sometimes bravery isn't enough. Sometimes the world requires us to be bold.
100. “Investing in your own growth and self-development isn’t selfish. It’s self-care.” – Dr. Eric Weis
101. “It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” – Theodore Roosevelt
102. “Life is the most difficult exam. Many people fail because they try to copy others. not realizing that everyone has different questions to answer.”
103. “If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” - Vincent van Gogh
104. “If you want to be truly adventurous. you must lose your inclination for monotony.” – Veronica Roth
105. “There is one irrefutable law of the universe: We are each responsible for our own life. If you’re holding anyone else accountable for your happiness, you’re wasting your time. You must be fearless enough to give yourself the love you didn’t receive.” – Oprah Winfrey
106. “You are free. you are powerful. you are good. you are love. you have value you have a purpose. All is well.” — Abraham Hicks
107. You attract the right thing when you have a sense of who you are.
108. “To believe in something. and not to live it. is dishonest.”
109. “People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.” – Hermann Hesse
110. “And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.”~ Paulo Coelho
111. “Baby. we’ll be fine. all we gotta do is be brave and be kind.”
112. “Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”
113. “The most common form of despair is not being who you are.” – Soren Kierkegaard. ‘Sickness Unto Death’. 1849
114. “Boastfulness and excessive pride do not equate at all with humility and honesty. credibility and integrity.”
115. “Be yourself. That is something you can do better than anyone else. Listen to that inner voice and bravely follow it.” Anonymous
116. “Effort is grossly underrated.” — Gary Vaynerchuk
117. “Loving yourself is the greatest revolution.”
118. “As I began to love myself I freed myself of anything that is no good for my health – food, people, things, situations, and everything that drewn me down and away from myself.” – Charlie Chaplin
119. Falling in love with yourself first doesn’t make you vain or selfish. It makes you indestructible.
120. “Authenticity inspires respect because it takes courage to own who you really are.”
121. “neuroscientist Antonio Damasio reminds us. “We are not necessarily thinking machines. We are feeling machines that think.”
122. “I often say that Wholeheartedness is like the North Star—we never really arrive, but we certainly know if we’re headed in the right direction.”
123. “Accepting yourself only as long as you look a certain way isn’t self love. it’s self destruction.” – Laci Green
124. “But the reality is the people who put us down. the very ones who make us doubt ourselves. never really make anything of their own lives themselves.” – Clarence Chan
125. Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. - M. Scott Peck
126. There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. – Anaïs Nin
127. “You don’t like me? That’s a shame. I’ll need a few minutes to recover from the tragedy.”
128. “Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we’re all in this together.”
129. “Don’t underestimate yourself. You are more capable than you think.” - Misty Copeland
130. Don’t let the bad days make you think you have a bad life.
131. “It’s better to break your own heart by leaving, rather than having that person break your heart every day you’re with them.” — Author Unknown
132. “Honesty is very sexy.” — Valerie Bertinelli
133. “People are just looking for honesty and authenticity more than anything.” – Sarah Huckabee Sanders
134. “You are beautiful. Know this. Anyone who tells you otherwise is simply lying. You are beautiful.”
135. “You don’t grow through successes; you grow through what you go through.” — Mischaela Elkins
136. “Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.” – Rupi Kaur
137. We often choose a friend as we do a mistress – for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love. – William Hazlitt
138. “Be different; be unique; be yourself.” – Christina Grimmie
139. “Be peaceful believe in god and yourself, you are doing better than you think you are.”
140. “You are in charge of your own happiness. so don’t let anyone take that away from you.”
141. “The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.” ―C.G. Jung
142. “The more you like yourself. the less you are like anyone else. which makes you unique.” — Walt Disney
143. “What was it about relationships that made you feel so vulnerable? Oh. right. A relationship. In any relationship. you put yourself out there. You exposed all of your sensitive nerve endings and your heart and you just had to hope that you trusted the right person.”
144. “I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it’s safer and in better taste to select the least numerous of the adversaries.” – Ayn Rand, We the Living
145. “I am enough. I am full of sparkle and of compassion. I genuinely want to make the world a better place. I love hard. I practice kindness. I am not afraid of the truth. I am loyal. adventurous. supporting. and surprising. I am enough. I make mistakes. but I own them and I learn from them. And sometimes I make a lot of mistakes. But I am enough.”
146. “Our children make us so vulnerable. Our parents too. I suppose.” — Sara Sheridan
147. “If you want to be happy. you must be true to who you are.”
148. “Forget all the reasons why it won’t work and believe the one reason why it will!” — Ain Eineziz
149. “Courage is about learning how to function despite the fear. to put aside your instincts to run or give in completely to the anger born from fear. Courage is about using your brain and your heart when every cell of your body is screaming at your to fight or flee – and then following through on what you believe is the right thing to do.” – Jim Butcher
150. “People who love themselves. don’t hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves. the more we want others to suffer.” – Dan Pearce
151. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” ~ Helen Keller
152. “Remember it’s OK to be yourself.”
153. “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” – Dolly Parton
154. “If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good. you’re not going to know yourself very well. If you got it. flaunt it.” – Ariel Pink
155. If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is too. - T. Harv Eker.
156. Controlling how you perceive things.
157. “Chasing a person doesn’t give you value or build values in you. You earn your value by chasing morality and practicing dignity.” – Shannon L. Alder
158. “Loving yourself isn’t vanity. It is sanity.” – Katrina Mayer
159. “Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” —e e cummings, poet
160. “Bravery is listening even when you don’t want to hear it.” – Alaric Hutchinson
161. “Faith is a living. daring confidence in God’s grace. so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.” – Martin Luther
162. “Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think.”― Roy T. Bennett
163. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions” – Stephen R. Covey.
164. “A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
165. Transparency is the new objectivity.
166. “Imperfection is beauty. madness is genius. and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”– Marilyn Monroe
167. “Brave women are not born from comfort zones. They are made in the fire.” – Cheryl Hale
168. Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in.
169. “The things that make me different are the things that make me.” – Winnie the Poo
170. “With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability. one can build a better world.” ~ Dalai Lama
171. “In the stillness and quietness within and around us. brings a greater force of awareness of ourselves as to who we are. where we are. and our destiny by use of pleasant and hopeful thoughts.”
172. “We run from grief because loss scares us, yet our hearts reach toward grief because the broken parts want to mend.”
173. “I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.” ― Bruce Lee
174. “Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor RooseveltCLICK TO TWEET
175. “The right mental attitude will guide you towards feeling a sense of love that you deserve to experience.” – Unknown
176. “It is precisely because they did love themselves-- because each one’s need to maintain his own respect for himself was more important to him than his popularity with others-- because his desire to win or maintain a reputation for integrity and courage was stronger than his desire to maintain his office.”
177. “I listen to everybody. but most of the time I learn not to do” – Abraham Lincoln
178. Love yourself instead of abusing yourself
179. “You gain strength. courage. and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
180. “Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.” ~ Herman Melville
181. “Encouraging words are good medicine for the soul.” Lailah Gifty Akita
182. “To love yourself is to understand you don’t need to be perfect to be good.” – Anonymous
183. “When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.” – Brené Brown
184. “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein
185. It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office. – H. L. Mencken
186. “Let others take you as you are. or not at all. You are enough right now. You don’t need other people to validate you; you are already valuable.”
187. “You are enough because you make me enough for you!”
188. Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
189. “Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.” – Gerry Adams
190. “I’ll find strength in pain.”
191. “The only person who can pull me down is myself. and I’m not going to let myself pull me down anymore.” – C. JoyBell C.
192. “When you start loving yourself and respecting your time and energy, things will change. Get to know your worth, and your value will go up.” – Germany Kent
193. “Courage is being scared to death … and saddling up anyway.” – John Wayne
194. “Don’t compare yourself to others. Compare yourself to the person from yesterday.”
195. “There is nothing so rewarding as to make people realize that they are worthwhile in this world.” – Bob Anderson
196. “Love yourself and life becomes a party” – Jen Sincero; You Are a Badass
197. “Love yourself unconditionally. just as you love those who treat you like shit.” – Unknown
198. “Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.” – Coco Chanel
199. I do feel that softness for the vulnerability and the innocence in our world
200. “Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.”
201. “Don’t worry about finding the love of your life. First. love yourself and everything will fall into place.” – Ralph Napolitano
202. “All my life, I’ve had a fear of being told what to say, so I’m not telling people what to think. I’m encouraging them to say what they think.” Yungblud
203. “When we are happy—when our mindset and mood are positive—we are smarter. more motivated. and thus more successful. Happiness is the center. and success revolves around it” – Shawn Achor
204. “To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.” – Dave Pelzer
205. “There is nothing more beautiful than seeing a person being themselves. Imagine going through your day being unapologetically you.”
206. “Be with someone who makes you feel loved.”
207. “Mastering others is strength. mastering yourself is true power.” ~ Lao Tzu
208. “Self-worth is so vital to your happiness if you don’t feel good about you, it’s hard to feel good about anything else.” – Sandy Hale
209. “A bold act requires a high degree of confidence.” — Robert Greene
210. “Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.”
211. ...the path to great confidence is not in becoming invincible. flawless. and seemingly perfect. But rather. it is in embracing your humanity. in all its messy glory and tender vulnerability. Dr Aziz Gazipura PsyD. The Art of Extraordinary Confidence
212. Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting. – William Shakespeare.
213. “Be everything to you. not everything to everybody” – Lisa Lieberman-Wang
214. “Dubai is a place where dreams come true.” Asad Meah
215. “Our self-respect tracks our choices. Every time we act in harmony with our authentic self and our heart. we earn our respect. It is that simple. Every choice matters.” – Dan Coppersmith
216. To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
217. Love yourself. Love the world. There is no power stronger than love.
218. “You. being yourself. unknowingly inspire others to be themselves.” — Mooji
219. Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you. - George Whitefield
220. “Give me courage. Give me strength. Please. Lord. through it all. be at my side.”
221. “Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.” – W. Clement Stone
222. “Young men go to war. Sometimes because they have to. sometimes because they want to. Always. they feel they are supposed to. This comes from the sad. layered stories of life. which over the centuries have seen courage confused with picking up arms. and cowardice confused with laying them down.”
223. You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody. - Maya Angelou, source unknown
224. “Sometimes, you need to take a break from everyone and spend time alone, to experience, appreciate, and love yourself.” – Robert Tew
225. If you can’t believe in miracles, then believe in yourself. When you want something bad enough, let that drive push you to make it happen. Sometimes you’ll run into brick walls that are put there to test you. Find a way around them and stay focused on your dream. Where there’s a will, there’s a way. - Isabel Lopez
226. “Don’t compromise yourself – you’re all you have.” ― John Grisham. The Rainmaker
227. “It is. I suppose. the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. It is bitter for the young to see what awful innocence adults grow into. that terrible vulnerability that must be sheltered from the rodent mire of childhood.”
228. “To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no one else will.” – Sugar Ray Robinson
229. “There are so many more important things to worry about than how you’re perceived by strangers.”
230. You are GOOD enough, SMART enough, BEAUTIFUL enough, and STRONG enough. Believe it and never let insecurity and society’s perception on how you should run your life change your attitude toward your own reflection and personality. – Kemmy Nola
231. “We are all broken by something. We have all hurt someone and have been hurt. We all share the condition of brokenness. even if our brokenness is not equivalent […] Our shared vulnerability and imperfection nurtures and sustains our capacity for compassion. We have a choice. We can embrace our humanness. which means embracing our broken natures and the compassion that remains our best hope for healing. Or we can deny our brokenness. foreswear compassion. and. as a result. deny our own humanity.”
232. “True abundance isn’t based on our net worth, it’s based on our self-worth.” — Gabrielle Bernstein
233. “It is best to act with confidence. no matter how little right you have to it.” – Lillian Helman
234. “I only share when I have no unmet needs that I’m trying to fill. I firmly believe that being vulnerable with a larger audience is only a good idea if the healing is tied to the sharing, not to the expectations I might have for the response I get.”
235. “Where’s your will to be weird?” — Jim Morrison
236. Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.
237. Always be a first-rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.
238. “A true diva is graceful. and talented. and strong. and fearless and brave and someone with humility.” - Beyoncé Knowles
239. “Float like a butterfly. sting like a bee.”– Muhammad Ali
240. Ask About Next Steps
241. “You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are. your simple presence can make others happy.”
242. “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” – Anne Lamott
243. “I hope you will have a wonderful year. that you’ll dream dangerously and outrageously. that you’ll make something that didn’t exist before you made it. that you will be loved and that you will be liked. and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And. most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now). that you will. when you need to be. be wise. and that you will always be kind.” — Neil Gaiman
244. “If you want to live an authentic. meaningful life. you need to master the art of disappointing and upsetting others. hurting feelings. and living with the reality that some people just won’t like you. It may not be easy. but it’s essential if you want your life to reflect your deepest desires. values. and needs.”
245. Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. — Helen Keller
246. “Get more confidence by doing things that excite and frighten you.” -Jessica Williams
247. Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it. You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won't accept.
248. “Choosing authenticity means cultivating the courage to be imperfect, to set boundaries, and to allow ourselves to be vulnerable; exercising the compassion that comes from knowing that we are all made of strength and struggle; and nurturing the connection and sense of belonging that can only happen when we believe that we are enough.”
249. “The biggest challenge of life is to be yourself in a world that is trying to make you like everyone else.” Anonymous
250. “The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I’m not going to let myself pull me down anymore.” - C. JoyBell C.
251. “The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand
252. “Progress comes with practice, and practice comes with purpose. Know your “why.”” – Melissa Steginus
253. “I do not seek the approval of people who do not approve of me.” ― Maria Koszler
254. “People learn something every day, and a lot of times it’s that what they learned the day before was wrong.” — Bill Vaughan
255. Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
256. “Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature’s, not honour’s
257. “Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.” – Amelia Earhart
258. “Always strive to aim for the highest peak of the goals in life you have set. this way if you manage to reach even half way toward a goal. landing in the middle is not such a bad place to end up.”- Victoria Addino
259. “Be yourself – not your idea of what you think somebody else’s idea of yourself should be.” – Henry David Thoreau
260. “Whatever the consequences of staying true to yourself. they’re much less than the consequences of selling your soul.” – Carly Fiorina
261. Act as if what you do makes a difference
262. “You have to be true to yourself and remain humble. Whether you win or lose. you’ve got to treat everyone the same. and be who you are.” – Randy Couture
263. “Don’t chase people. Be yourself. do your own thing and work hard. The right people—the ones who really belong in your life—will come to you. and stay.” —Will Smith
264. “Whatever you do. you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon. there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.”
265. Study Confidence
266. “Accept your humanness as well as your divinity, totally and without reserve.” – Emmanuel
267. “She’s a dreamer. A doer. A thinker. She sees possibility everywhere.”
268. Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.
269. Learn to walk in God's perception of who you are, because yours is not good enough. - Author: Graham Cooke
270. “You know you are on the right path when you no longer seek validation”
271. “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better. do better.”
272. “If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.” - Brian Tracy
273. “If we are not ashamed to think it. we should not be ashamed to say it.”
274. “When you love yourself endlessly. you will find that the whole world loves you too.”
275. “The little queen all golden
276. “True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.” – Jeremy Collier
277. “It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.” –Sally Field
278. Always shine brighter than the sun.
279. “Positive thinking helps you stand back up again when you are knocked down by bad luck or negativity.”- Tom Laurie
280. “Reflect upon your present blessings. of which every man has many–not on your past misfortunes. of which all men have some.” –Charles Dickens
281. “I’m the pink sheep in the family.”– Alexander McQueen
282. “Always believe in yourself. no matter who’s around you being negative or thrusting negative energy at you.” – Michael Jackson
283. “Why are you trying to be someone else when you are enough just the way you are?”
284. “Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”
285. “Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.” – Jorge Luis Borges
286. Accept who you are; and revel in it. - Mitch Albom
287. “Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.” – Baltasar Gracian
288. “A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive, and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.” – Vince Lombardi
289. “We don’t even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.” ~ Isabel Allende
290. “Self-love is not selfish; you cannot truly love another until you know how to love yourself.” – Unknown
291. “We can talk about courage and love and compassion until we sound like a greeting card store. but unless we’re willing to have an honest conversation about what gets in the way of putting these into practice in our daily lives. we will never change. Never. ever.”
292. “When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.” Cathy Guisewite
293. “We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can’t use shame to change ourselves or others.” – Brené Brown
294. Work on being in love with the person in the mirror who has been through so much but is still standing.
295. “Man is what he believes – believe in yourself” – Dr. Amit Abraham
296. Let us be bold. Let us be brave. Let us be together.
297. “Self-doubt can create fatigue in your mind, whereas focused action can create achievement in your life.” – Jackie Cantoni
298. “Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.” ― Christine Bovee
299. “If you are surrounded by your competition and you are outworking these people. outmaneuvering these people. it’s hard not to let your confidence take over. It just builds and builds and builds.” – Conor McGregor
300. “We have to be braver than we think we can be. because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.” – Madeleine L’Engle
301. “It’s hard to feel close to others when you don’t like yourself very much. Trying to be something to everyone means you have nothing left for yourself and can make you feel disconnected from your relationships.” – Dr Jessamy Hibberd
302. “To a coward. courage always looks like stupidity.” – Bill Maher
303. “Whether you think you can or think you can’t. you are right. – Henry Ford
304. “It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.” ~ Samuel Johnson
305. “The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question. and by seeking we may come upon the truth.” – Pierre Abelard
306. “In a funny way I think social media is making people less rather more experimental. People are too worried about looking good all the time. When I grew up you could get it all horribly wrong and it didn't matter. there was no record.”
307. “I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.” —Anna Freud, psychoanalyst
308. “Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement.” ―Anthony J. D’Angelo
309. “She seemed almost to have a perverse impulse to make anyone who cared about her regret it. to find the thing that would most appall those people and then do that until they had to run away as a matter of self-preservation.”
310. “When you’re brave. you empower others around you to be brave too.” – Anonymous
311. “Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.” – Angelina Jolie
312. Life is so big. Do not try to fill it. Instead, expand within. You are enough for you. – Bryant McGill
313. “Never apologize for being yourself.” – Paulo Coelho
314. “Never feel guilty for doing what is best for you.”
315. This above all; to thine own self be true.
316. “If there’s one thing I’m willing to bet on. it’s myself.” — Beyoncé
317. “Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.”
318. “Be yourself. The world worships the original.” ― Ingrid Bergman
319. “The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.” — Lao Tzu
320. “Self-doubt is very dangerous because it not only warps your perception of what you’re capable of but it also degrades your appreciation of your capacities.” ― J.D. Carter
321. “What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
322. Build your dreams or you will be hired by someone to build theirs
323. “Those who have a strong sense of love and belonging have the courage to be imperfect.”
324. “I woke up like this. Flawless.” — Beyoncé
325. “The key to making money is to stay invested.” – Suze Orman
326. “Whatever you do. you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon. there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories. but it takes brave men and women to win them.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
327. Vulnerability is basically uncertainty
328. I always had that self-belief that I was good enough. You have got to believe you are good enough, otherwise there is no point...
329. “Once you start to value yourself, you can believe in yourself, and once you believe in yourself, you can achieve the impossible.” – The STRIVE
330. “Love yourself first. So you know what you deserve.” – Lucille Ball
331. “Your inner strength is your outer foundation.” – Allan Rufus
332. “If any man seeks for greatness. let him forget greatness and ask for truth. and he will find both.” – Horace Mann
333. “You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.”
334. “Be yourself, don’t take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.” – Gerard Way
335. “Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.” – Robert A. Heinlein
336. “Vulnerability is not about winning or losing. It’s having the courage to show up even when you can’t control the outcome.”
337. “Believe you can, and you are halfway there.” — Theodore Roosevelt
338. Always stay true to yourself. Some people will like it, some people won't. Life goes on.
339. “Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun. fast. or easy; and choosing to practice our values rather than simply professing them.”
340. “Never give up. You only get one life. Go for it!”– Richard E. Grant
341. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
342. “Being sincere and true to yourself defines your authenticity.” – Arsenio V. Manalo Jr.
343. “We are not too young or old to live our dreams… but we do act out our mindset.”―Richie Norton
344. “You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!” – John Lennon
345. “You only fail when you stop trying.”
346. “If you’re not honest with yourself. life will never be honest with you.”
347. You may never be good enough for everybody, but you will always be the best for somebody.
348. “Love has shown me how both weak and strong I can be.”
349. Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality, and duplicate it.
350. “Never suppress your greatness just to fit in!”― Anneka Jordan
351. “I love seeing my friends genuinely happy.”
352. “You have moments. days. sometimes weeks when you will doubt yourself. Just know. it is all part of the spiritual process.” – Iyanla Vanzant
353. There are more than enough
354. “Where you are is a result of who you were. but where you go depends entirely on who you choose to be.” – Hal Elrod
355. “You can’t go back and change the beginning. but you can start where you are and change the ending.” – C.S. Lewis
356. “When everything seems to be going against you. remember that the aeroplane takes off against the wind. not with it.”
357. “A brave leader is someone who says I see you. I hear you. I don’t have all the answers. but I’m going to keep listening and asking questions.”
358. “If there was any great lesson in life it was this: No battle was ever won with silence.”
359. “Let yourself be yourself.” Anonymous
360. “To love yourself is to understand that you don’t need to be perfect to be good.”
361. “It's not what we have in life but who we have in our life that matters.”
362. “Life tried to crush her, but only succeeded in creating a diamond.” – John Mark Green
363. “When I let go of what I am. I become what I might be.” — Lao Tzu
364. “The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.” – John F. Kennedy
365. “The only thing I’m committed right now is bettering myself.”
366. Love yourself first and everything else falls into line
367. “Love is weakest when there is more doubt than trust… Love is strongest when we learn to trust in spite the doubts.”
368. “Self-confidence is the best outfit, wear and rock it” Unknown
369. A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life. – Andrew Matthews
370. “Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell. believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don’t. who will?” ~ Jon Bon Jovi
371. “All we have to do is forgive ourselves wholly and completely for ever thinking that we are not good enough!” – Jodi Aman
372. A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself. - Maya Angelou, source unknown
373. “Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.” – Anonymous
374. “The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging. in fact. can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance. because believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic. vulnerable and imperfect.” – Brene Brown
375. “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. John F. Kennedy
376. A loving person lives in a loving world
377. “Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it’s having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome. Vulnerability is not weakness; it’s our greatest measure of courage.”
378. “Look inward — the loving begins with you” – Oprah Winfrey; What I Know For Sure
379. Existence wants you to be you.
380. “Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.” – Malcolm Muggeridge
381. “The one thing that you have. that nobody else has. is YOU“. – Neil Gaiman
382. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
383. “Collaboration is a key part of the success of any organization, executed through a clearly defined vision and mission and based on transparency and constant communication.” Dinesh Paliwal
384. “We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.” — Michelle Obama
385. Refuse to accept another’s estimation of yourself. – Alison Stormwolf
386. “Live life to the fullest. and focus on the positive.”
387. “I choose to be authentic in everything I do.” India Arie
388. It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
389. ″‘Course you’re scared. Anybody’d be scared. You just gotta trust me. OK? I’m not gonna let you fall. May Belle. I promise you.‘”
390. Sometimes you have to realize that you've had enough to realize that you are enough.
391. “Being courageous in solitude. without witnesses. without the prize of a consent. alone in front of oneself. requires great courage and great strength.” – Milan Kundera
392. “People who love themselves. don’t hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves. the more we want others to suffer.” — Dan Pearce
393. “If you are facing a new challenge or being asked to do something that you have never done before don’t be afraid to step out. You have more capability than you think you do but you will never see it unless you place a demand on yourself for more.” – Joyce Meyer
394. “To a brave man. good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.” – St. Catherine of Siena
395. “Unique and different is the next generation of beautiful.” – Taylor Swift
396. “Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection” – Brené Brown
397. “The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself. especially when everybody is watching.” – Dave Chappelle
398. “It will start to hurt less one day. I promise. You are enough. Do not let anyone tell you otherwise.” – Josephine Saint
399. “If you stay true to yourself. you’ll never have regrets.”
400. Don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. – Franz Kafka
401. “Fight on all occasions; fight the more for duels being forbidden. since. consequently. there is twice as much courage in fighting.”
402. “I don’t do normal. I have a reputation to uphold. (Thwonk)” ― Joan Bauer
403. The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. - Harry Golden
404. “The harder you fall. the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart. the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb. the higher your pedestal.”~ Criss Jami
405. “Transparency increases credibility and accountability.” – Park Won-soon
406. “To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength” – Crissi Jami
407. “Doubt is useful, it keeps faith a living thing. After all, you cannot know the strength of your faith until it has been tested.” – David Magee
408. “I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen. heard. and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.”
409. “I am a Queen, with or without you!” — Unknown
410. “Courage is knowing what not to fear.”
411. “It isn’t for the moment you are struck that you need courage. but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.”
412. ″‘If the ants can do it. Nicodemus says. if the bees can do it. so can we.’
413. Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. – Malcolm S. Forbes
414. I like criticism. It makes you strong. - LeBron James
415. Have the guts to be true to yourself. Nothing more.
416. “You are not responsible for other people’s opinions. feelings. or perceptions of you. They own that. not you.” – Shane Parrish
417. “Always believe in yourself because as soon as you trust yourself. you will know how to live.”
418. “When you’re different. sometimes you don’t see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn’t.” — Jodi Picoult
419. “A liar should have a good memory.”
420. “The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.”
421. “Change equals self-improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before.” ― Pat Summitt
422. “He had tenderness in his heart — ‘a soft place. ’ as Nicholas Higgins called it; but he had some pride in concealing it; he kept it very sacred and safe. and was jealous of every circumstance that tried to gain admission. But if he dreaded exposure of his tenderness. he was equally desirous that all men should recognize his justice; and he felt that he had been unjust. in giving so scornful a hearing to anyone who had waited. with humble patience. for five hours. to speak to him.”
423. “Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves. even when we risk disappointing others.”
424. “One word of encouragement can be enough to spark someone’s motivation to continue with a difficult challenge.” – Roy T. Bennet
425. “There can be no faith without doubt. No strength without temptation.” – Sherrilyn Kenyon
426. “Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear. do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” –Dale Carnegie
427. “Keep it real.”
428. “Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.” – Ruth Gordo
429. “I’m not perfect. but I’m pretty good.”
430. “It’s all about reprogramming our minds to focus more on what brings us joy.”―Alaric Hutchinson
431. Loving yourself is the greatest revolution
432. “Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.” – Henry Ford
433. “It is better to do nothing than to do what is wrong. For whatever you do. you do to yourself.” – The Dhammapada
434. Women must learn to find self-worth within themselves, not through others. It is important to carve out a place just for you. - Georgette Mosbacher.
435. “Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.” – Babe Ruth
436. “Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.”
437. “Love yourself first, because that’s who you’ll be spending the rest of your life with.” – Unknown
438. “It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.” – Andre Gide
439. “You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
440. “Well I know that you worry a lot about things you can’t control There are so many things we’d like to have But we just cannot hold You’ve got to be kind to yourself You’ve got to be kind to yourself” – Zooey Deschanel.
441. Be yourself, don’t take anything from anyone, and never let them take you alive.
442. “If your mind can conceive it. and your heart can believe it—you can achieve it.” –Muhammad Ali
443. Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist. – Mary Kay Ash
444. “You will never influence the world by being just like it.”
445. “It is easier for one to take risks and to chase his dreams with a mindset that he has nothing to lose. In this lies the immense passion, the great advantage of avoiding a materialistic, pleasure-filled way of life.”―Criss Jami
446. “The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.”'
447. “The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.”
448. To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.
449. The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out. - Alan Cohen.
450. “Give yourself credit for how far you’ve come.”
451. I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it. - Maya Angelou
452. “As I began to love myself. I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living my own truth. Today I know this is authenticity.” Charlie Chaplin
453. “We can’t be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in. but if you never venture out of it. you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean. a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now. may be the very reason why you don’t have something better.” – C. JoyBell C.
454. Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own. —Carl Gustav Jung
455. “It’s about waking up in the morning and saying: No matter what gets done and how much is done and how it’s done. I’m enough and I’m worthy of belonging and love and joy.” – Brené Brown
456. “No relationship is perfect. ever. There are always some ways you have to bend. to compromise. to give something up in order to gain something greater… The love we have for each other is bigger than these small differences. And that’s the key. It’s like a big pie chart. and the love in a relationship has to be the biggest piece. Love can make up for a lot.” – Ellen Degeneres
457. The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself. —Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
458. “To move ahead you need to believe in yourself. have conviction in your beliefs. and have the confidence to execute those beliefs.” – Adlin Sinclair
459. It is not what you are that holds you back
460. “No matter what happens. always be yourself.”– Dale Carnegie
461. “Courage. in the final analysis. is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence.” – Kurt Goldstein
462. “When in doubt, use nutrition first.” – Roger Williams
463. “I am a star. I am a galaxy.” – C.J. Redwine
464. Be honest with the people who love you. They deserve your honesty.
465. As you love yourself, life loves you back.
466. “Stay away from negative people. they have a problem for every solution.” — Albert Einstein
467. “It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself. and half-believed before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.” – James Baldwin
468. “Never forget what you are. for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it. and it will never be used to hurt you.”
469. “It’s the first villain that I’ve played in a movie that has absolutely no vulnerability and no innocence. nothing whatsoever that is likeable about her other than she’s so bad.”- Daryl Hannah
470. “To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections.” – Sandra Bierig
471. “I don’t go by the rule book. I lead from the heart, not the head.” —Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales
472. One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. -Arthur Ashe
473. It is really hard to make it convincing enough that you forget you are playing a video game. - Author: Tim Page
474. “You deserve to be the protagonist of your own wonderful. bizarre. terrifying little life. If you decide you are enough. you are enough. You don’t need to wait for some grand external validation of your worth before you offer your kindest heart to yourself.” – Kathy Brown
475. “Be the reason someone believes in the goodness of people.” – Karan Salmansohn
476. “If you light a lamp for someone else. it will also brighten your path.”
477. “You can have regret from yesterday. fear tomorrow. but peace today by sharing your heart’s deepest feelings. A life spent being fearful of showing your soul is a life not worth living.” – Shannon Alder
478. “If you ever want to love someone. love yourself unconditionally first.” – Debasish Mridha
479. “There are a lot of people who give you the message that maybe you are not good enough. and the best thing you can do for yourself is to block out all of that noise.”
480. “My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent." - Ruth Bader Ginsberg, source unknown
481. “Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.” – Wendy Wasserstein.
482. Self-love seems so often unrequited. – Anthony Powell
483. You alone are enough
484. Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other. - Walter Elliot
485. “Just FYI, you are unique, and you are perfect!”― Izey Victoria Odiase
486. “To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”
487. “It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.” – Pablo Casals
488. “Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free.” – Eckhart Tolle
489. “I suspect the secret of personal attraction is locked up in our unique imperfections. flaws and frailties.” – Hugh Mackay
490. You can fall, but you can rise also.” — Angélique Kidjo
491. “People wear all sorts of things. but the best part is the part that’s on the inside. That’s what’s really you — the person inside.” – Fred Rogers
492. “We’re never so vulnerable than when we trust someone. but paradoxically. if we cannot trust. neither can we find love or joy.” — Walter Anderson
493. “Don’t trade your authenticity for approval.”
494. “You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself. you must know yourself.”- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
495. “I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day. a fresh try. one more start. with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.”
496. “Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine.” – Sarah Dessen
497. If you believe you can make a difference, then you will make a difference. Believe in yourself, your family and your community and you will win. - Lindsay Fox
498. “Aim for success. not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong. because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.”
499. When you know your worth, no one can make you feel worthless. - Unknown.*
500. Relationship status: committed to inner peace, expansion, gratitude and self-love.
501. “It’s scoring goals that’s great, whether against Brazil or anybody else.” – Lionel Messi
502. “As you grow in self-esteem, your face, manner, way of talking and moving will tend naturally to project the pleasure you take in being alive.” – Nathaniel Branden
503. “You matter. You’re not broken. You’re stronger than you think.” – Vironika Tugaleva
504. “Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.” – David J. Schwartz
505. “In order to realize our true self we must be willing to live without being dependent upon the opinion of others.”
506. “Talk about your failures without apologizing.” – Brené Brown
507. “Dare to be remarkable.” – Jane Gentry
508. “Authenticity is very important – be true to one’s self.” -Laila Ali
509. “Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.” ~ Napoleon Hill
510. “Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual. you have an obligation to be one.”– Eleanor Roosevelt
511. “We don’t have to do all of it alone. We were never meant to.”
512. “The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on. rely on. or blame. The gift is yours – it is an amazing journey – and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.” – Bob Moawad
513. Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your handbrake on. – Maxwell Maltz
514. “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you are right.” – Henry Ford
515. But you've always been good enough. You've just been giving the best parts of you to the wrong people.
516. “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
517. “To live will be an awfully big adventure.”
518. “Shallow emotions. An incapacity to feel genuine love. A need for stimulation. Frequent verbal outbursts. Poor behavioural controls. These are just some of the things that social media are encouraging in all of us. They’re also a pretty comprehensive diagnostic checklist for sociopathy — in fact, that’s where I got the list.” Milo Yiannopoulos
519. Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
520. Loving our hair and accepting others’ is a simple but powerful way to encourage self-love and bring people together while celebrating our uniqueness. – Carolyn Aronson
521. “Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.” —Mignon McLaughlin, author and journalist
522. “I will prepare and some day my chance will come.” – Abraham Lincoln
523. “I am a unique expression of the universal fabric of creation.” – Jonathan Lockwood Huie
524. “Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” ― William Faulkner
525. “To help yourself. you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake. learn from it. pick yourself up and move on.”– Dave Pelzer
526. “I think I have a degree of confidence. but I also have terrible insecurity. like anybody does.” ~ Ben Whishaw
527. “Make yourself an honest man. and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.”
528. “Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.” – James A. Michener
529. “Every girl should learn to love their own self. regardless of anything. For only in loving yourself that you can do anything else.”
530. “Everything you need is within you, the strength, the courage and confidence to change your life. You just need to look within yourself and find it.” – Amanda Ray
531. Hold your fire, cool your temper
532. “Too many people reach a level where their performance is “good enough” and then stop working on getting better” – Gary Keller
533. “My mother was one of the first few blacks to integrate the University of Arkansas. graduating in 1954. Three years later. when Grandma discovered I would be one of the first blacks to attend Central High School. she said the nightmare that had surrounded my birth was proof positive that destiny had assigned me a special task.”
534. “Sometimes the bravest and most important thing you can do is just show up.”
535. “The better you feel about yourself. the less you feel the need to show off.” – Robert Hand
536. The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected. – George Henry Lewes
537. “If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning.” — Carol Dweck
538. “The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust. intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust. disconnection – and usually a little judgment.”
539. We are complex beings who wake up every day and fight against being labeled and diminished with stereotypes and characterizations that don’t reflect our fullness. Yet when we don’t risk standing on our own and speaking out, when the options laid before us force us into the very categories we resist, we perpetuate our own disconnection and loneliness. When we are willing to risk venturing into the wilderness, and even becoming our own wilderness, we feel the deepest connection to our true self and to what matters the most.
540. “Allowing myself to love God completely has obviously shed light on my self-love because he loves me more than I could ever love myself.” — Angie Stone
541. “Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.”
542. Get Ready the Day Before
543. “To the degree you give others what they need. they will give you what you need.”
544. “I never really thought that I was going to be good or not, I just wanted to make my dream come true.” – Lionel Messi
545. Talent comes from practice.
546. “What inspires you to give selflessly is the fact that you are selfishly committed to protecting your own interest. You protect those you love because they are your interest and you are protective of them.”
547. “I will not be another flower. picked for my beauty and left to die. I will be wild. difficult to find. and impossible to forget.”
548. “Authenticity is about being true to who you are.” Michael Jordan
549. “Confident girls aren’t born. they’re made.” -unknown
550. “Honesty is the best policy.” — Benjamin Franklin
551. “Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.”
552. “What it takes to be unique. is just to realize that you are one & only i.e. you are a unique creation. So. be & remain unique.” – Emeasoba George
553. “Sometimes we must yield control to others and accept our vulnerability so we can be healed” – Kathy Magliato
554. “Speak your truth quietly and clearly. and listen to others. even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story. Be yourself.”
555. I can be a better me than anyone can.
556. “You don’t need to believe everything you think.”―Catherine Singer
557. “If you tell the truth. you don’t have to remember anything.” — Mark Twain
558. “I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that. and you believe in yourself. and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose. I believe you can rise up out of any situation.”
559. “Wouldn’t it be powerful if you fell in love with yourself so deeply that you would do just about anything if you knew it would make you happy? This is precisely how much life loves you and wants you to nurture yourself. The deeper you love yourself. the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out.” –Alan Cohen
560. “What we know matters but who we are matters more.” – Brené Brown
561. “To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life. with eyes wide open. It means deciding to voluntarily transform the chaos of potential into the realities of habitable order. It means adopting the burden of self-conscious vulnerability. and accepting the end of the unconscious paradise of childhood. where finitude and mortality are only dimly comprehended. It means willingly undertaking the sacrifices necessary to generate a productive and meaningful reality (it means acting to please God. in the ancient language).”
562. “My belly flipped with worry . . . It was up to me to take care of things. to find a place for us. I had to be bold.”
563. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.” -Winston Churchill
564. If you don’t say what you think, then you kill your unborn self.
565. “Difficulties are meant to rouse. not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”~ William Ellery Channing
566. “When we meet real tragedy in life. we can react in two ways – either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits. or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha. I have been able to take this second way. “~ Dalai Lama
567. “A man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.”
568. “Be a stiletto in a room full of flats.”
569. “To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.” – Robert Morley
570. “Things to remember: Tomorrow is a new day. Making mistakes is part of life. Saying ‘no’ is okay. Not everyone has to like you. Beauty and strength come from within.”- Unknown
571. “Who questions much. shall learn much. and retain much.”
572. “Every morning starts a new page in your story. Make it a great one today.” ― Doe Zantamata
573. For those of you who really want to give critical thought to your unique leadership style and foster genuine followership, learn from what's out there and weave it into something meaningful and authentic. - Author: Stacy Feiner
574. “Stay focused on self-direction and personal growth and away from finger-pointing.” — Nina Atwood
575. “We all have a fighter in us.” — Author Unknown
576. “Total self-love and acceptance is the only foundation for happiness and the love of others.”
577. “Because of this new feeling within him. he ofttimes elected discomfort and pain for the sake of his god. ”
578. “Negative self-talk costs more than even the richest person can afford. So be nice to yourself whenever possible and know that it is always possible.” — Dough Pedersen
579. Be the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor each morning the devil says, “Oh crap, she’s up!”
580. “What goes on in your innermost being is worth all your love. this is what you must work on however you can and not waste too much time and too much energy on clarifying your attitude to other people.”
581. “You don’t have to change who you are, you have to become more of who you are.” – Sally Hogshead
582. “The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.” – Pam Brown
583. Your task is not to seek for Love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. —Rumi, 13th-century Sufi poet
584. “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” —Suzy Kassem, poet and artist
585. “Sometimes you can’t see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.” ― Ellen DeGeneres
586. “To find yourself. think for yourself.”
587. “Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.” – Charlie Chaplin
588. “Women must learn to find self-worth within themselves, not through others. It is important to carve out a place just for you.” – Georgette Mosbacher
589. “Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin. but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.” – Harper Lee
590. “A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
591. “We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.”– Virginia Satir
592. “Many imposters go through life with a fairly negative impression of themselves, at least when they are experiencing a period of imposter syndrome. This limits what you do, stops you trying new things and prevents you gaining more experience. It becomes harder to achieve your goals, to learn from your mistakes and therefore to grow and improve.” – Dr Jessamy Hibberd
593. It takes courage and strength to be empathetic, and I’m very proudly an empathetic and compassionate leader. I am trying to chart a different path, and that will attract criticism but I can only be true to myself and the form of leadership I believe in.” — Jacinda Ardern
594. “Vulnerability really means to be strong and secure enough within yourself that you are able to walk outside without your armor on. You are able to show up in life as just you. That is genuine strength and courage. Armor may look tough. but all it does is mask insecurity and fear.”
595. “Your problem is you’re… too busy holding onto your unworthiness.”
596. “I think everybody’s weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.”—Johnny Depp
597. I wish that more people, especially young people, were taught about self-love at a younger age. – Jamila Woods
598. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
599. “As long as you look for someone else to validate who you are by seeking their approval. you are setting yourself up for disaster. You have to be whole and complete in yourself. No one can give you that. You have to know who you are – what others say is irrelevant.”
600. “Soak up all the positive energy around you and use it to fuel your own dreams and aspirations.”
601. “Appear as you are. be as you appear.” ― Rumi
602. “The real difficulty in self-love is combating the inner critic who goes against our own wishes by challenging our own beliefs. You know you’re worthy of love, but the critic keeps reminding you of the past pain that you can’t let go of.” – Unknown
603. “Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.” – Mary Daly
604. “You can’t please everyone. When you’re too focused on living up to other people’s standards. you aren’t spending enough time raising your own. Some people may whisper. complain and judge. But for the most part. it’s all in your head. People care less about your actions than you think. Why? They have their own problems!” – Kris Carr
605. “There is no greater threat to the critics and cynics and fearmongers than those of us who are willing to fall because we have learned how to rise.”
606. “Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.” – Brené Brown
607. “To be happy with someone else. you must first be happy with yourself.”
608. “You’re in charge of your mind. You can help it grow by using it in the right way.”- Carol Dweck
609. “Worthiness doesn’t have prerequisites.” – Brené Brown
610. “Don’t hide yourself with filters. Learn to love yourself. no matter what.”
611. “Embrace your weirdness.” – Unknown
612. “Authenticity is more important.”
613. “Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think. more talented than you know. and capable of more than you imagine.” ― Roy T. Bennett. The Light in the Heart
614. “Real integrity is doing the right thing. knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.” – Oprah Winfrey
615. “Stay true to yourself and the answer will become clear” ~ Kentaro Yabuki
616. “Be who you were created to be. and you will set the world on fire.”– St. Catherine of Sienna
617. “Don’t waste your energy trying to change opinions…Do your thing. and don’t care if they like it.”
618. “Believe in yourself. and the rest will fall into place.”
619. “You have to have confidence in your ability and then be tough enough to follow through.” – Rosalynn Carter
620. “Have fun, be yourself, enjoy life and stay positive.”
621. It is not your responsibility to explain what God is doing with your life. He has not provided enough information to figure it out. Instead, you are asked to turn loose and let God be God. Therein lies the secret to the "peace that transcends understanding. - Author: Jen Hatmaker
622. “Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well. you can do a bigger thing well too.” — David Storey
623. “The nicest thing about the rain is that it always stops. Eventually.” — A.A. Milne
624. “A strong woman knows how to keep her life in line. With tears in her eyes, she still manages to say, Nah, I’m fine.” — Author Unknown
625. “If you can’t ask for help without self-judgment, you cannot offer help without judging others.” – Brené Brown
626. “Self-love is the greatest middle finger of all time.”
627. “People who lack the clarity. courage. or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. Live your truth and don’t EVER stop!” – Steve Maraboli
628. “Own who you are.” Anonymous
629. “I found myself living among an enclave of students where I was the only person of color. I was doing it again integrating a previously all-white residence house. even though I had other options.”
630. “You don’t have to like me; I’m not a Facebook status.” – Wiz Khalifa
631. “I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.” — Angela Davis
632. “If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain
633. “Fun is essential to mastering the serious side of life. It provides the balance that keeps us sane” – Peter Nicholls
634. “Your problem is you’re… too busy holding onto your unworthiness.” – Ram Dass
635. Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. —Eleanor Roosevelt
636. “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”– Lucille Ball
637. “The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly. correct and learn from it.” – Stephen R. Covey
638. “Be yourself. everyone else is taken.”
639. “The biggest game you will ever play is the game in your mind. Master your mind, master your world.”―Kevin Abdulrahman
640. “Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.” – Marie Curie
641. “Your current reality is a very poor predictor of what lies ahead of you. By making better choices, you can script a brand new story.”―Simerjeet Singh
642. “There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.” – Alfred Korzybski
643. “People think. ‘Oh. I’m loving myself by sitting on this sofa for four hours.’ Love yourself enough to get up!” — Alison Sweeney
644. “Be fearlessly authentic.”
645. “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage. you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”
646. “Insist on yourself; never imitate.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson
647. “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.”
648. “It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which. more than anything else. will affect its successful outcome.”
649. “Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile.”
650. “Freedom is a system based on courage.” – Charles Peguy
651. “She was right. Karma was a b*tch, but so was I.” – Julie Murphy-Side Effects May Vary
652. “Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past cant prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?”– Eckhart Tolle
653. “There will be times when standing alone feels too hard, too scary, and we’ll doubt our ability to make our way through the uncertainty. Someone, somewhere, will say, ‘Don’t do it. You don’t have what it takes to survive the wilderness.’ This is when you reach deep into your wild heart and remind yourself, ‘I am the wilderness.'”
654. “People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people’s minds. as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.”
655. “As is our confidence, so is our capacity.” – William Hazlitt
656. “Challenges are an opportunity to test you and rise to the next level.”– Angelica Montrose
657. “You have been criticizing yourself for years. and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” – Louise Hay
658. “You defeat defeatism with confidence.” – Vince Lombardi
659. “It sounds so simple, but if you just be yourself, you’re different than anyone else.” — Tony Bennett
660. “Lucy felt very frightened. but she felt inquisitive and excited as well. She looked back over her shoulder and there. between the dark tree-trunks. she could still see the open doorway of the wardrobe and even catch a glimpse of the empty room from which she had set out. (She had. of course. left the door open. for she knew that it is a very silly thing to shut oneself into a wardrobe.) It seemed to be still daylight there. “I can always get back if anything goes wrong. ” thought Lucy.”
661. “We must fall in love with yourselves. I don’t like myself. I’m crazy about myself.”
662. “Don’t let the expectations and opinions of other people affect your decisions. It’s your life, not theirs. Do what matters most to you; do what makes you feel alive and happy. Don’t let the expectations and ideas of others limit who you are. If you let others tell you who you are, you are living their reality — not yours. There is more to life than pleasing people. There is much more to life than following others’ prescribed path. There is so much more to life than what you experience right now. You need to decide who you are for yourself. Become a whole being. Adventure.” ― Roy T. Bennett
663. “The strongest force in the universe is a human being living consistently with his identity.”
664. “You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.” — Pope John Paul II
665. “Self-love is a good thing but self-awareness is more important. You need to once in a while go ‘Uh. I’m kind of an asshole.”
666. “Unconditional love is self-love only.” – Nitin Namdeo
667. “Living BIG (boundaries. integrity. and generosity).”
668. “The more you like yourself. the less you are like anyone else. which makes you unique.”
669. I am me, nothing more, nothing less, and that is enough. – Harpreet M. Dayal
670. “Let your light shine bright so the other weirdos can find you.”
671. “Whatever you do. be different – that was the advice my mother gave me. and I can’t think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you’re different. you will stand out.” – Anita Roddick
672. “Start loving yourself and everything else will come.”CLICK TO TWEET
673. “Throughout our emotional odyssey in the unembellished narrative of our life. we may sense many alluring voices that are enticing us into a beguiling. seamless story. Our inner monologue. however. might start raising consequential questions about the scintillation of that story. about our vulnerability during the tempting process and the danger of losing our real self. The question may be asked. whether the lure might enlighten. weaken or destroy our living. While our interior monologue mostly listens to the wisdom of our experience and the guidance of our memory. it may happen that it prefers not to listen. In that event. however. unreason and passion will be calling all the shots. ( “Woman in progress” )”
674. “Only when you are kinder to yourself. you can be kinder to the world.” – Haemin Sunim
675. “He swung the ancient sword high and struck at the giant adder. He struck for Redwall!”
676. “The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother. the ecology. or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”
677. You don’t have to live your life the way other people expect you to.
678. It is better to suffer for truth than to prosper by falsehood.
679. “Authenticity is also about the courage and the vulnerability to say, “Yeah, I’ll try it. I feel pretty uncomfortable and I feel a little vulnerable, but I’ll try it!”
680. “How can you even know what you want. if you don’t know who you are? Invest the time and energy into getting to know yourself.”- Get real with yourself.
681. “But you. brave and adept from this day on . . . there’s hope that you will reach your goal . . . the journey that stirs you now is not far off.”
682. “When you make a world tolerable for yourself. you make a world tolerable for others.” ― Anais Nin
683. When you have self confidence, you can do anything.
684. “To have courage for whatever comes in life – everything lies in that.” – Saint Teresa of Avila
685. Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.
686. “No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.” – Barbara de Angelis
687. “Don’t be into trends. Don’t make fashion own you. but you decide what you are. what you want to express by the way you dress. and the way to live.”– Gianni Versace
688. “Beauty begins the moment you decided to be yourself.”
689. “Life is like photography, we develop from the negatives.”
690. keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you see the world.
691. “The secret of having it all is believing you already do.” — Author Unknown
692. “When you fully trust a person without any doubt. you finally get one of the two results: A person for life or a lesson for life…”
693. “Maybe life isn’t about avoiding the bruises. Maybe it’s about collecting the scars to prove we showed up for it.” — Author Unknown
694. “Your life belongs to you and you alone.” - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun
695. “Through constant familiarity, we can definitely establish new behavior patterns, using our tendency to form habits to our advantage. If we make a steady effort, I think we can overcome any form of negative conditioning and make positive changes in our lives. But we need to remember that genuine change doesn’t happen overnight.” – Dalai Lama
696. “It is amazing how your life changes when you embrace the reality that you’re better than the life you’ve settled for.” – Steve Maraboli
697. “We desperately need more leaders who are committed to courageous, wholehearted leadership and who are self-aware enough to lead from their hearts, rather than unevolved leaders who lead from hurt and fear.” – Brené Brown
698. “The thing that is really hard and really amazing. is giving up on being perfect and beginning to work on becoming yourself.” – Anna Quindlen
699. “When you feel like quitting think about why you started.”
700. An honorable leader must demonstrate a willingness to reveal his or her 'inner self' to their team. It builds trust and trust is essential. It's also a sign of strength and authenticity, and people are attracted to those who are 'real' and authentic. - Author: Lee Ellis
701. “The destination is fulfilling when the path is authentically your own; find the courage and forge your own path; your essence is at stake”
702. “Know yourself. Keep your circle tight. Keep your friends and your work circle tight.” – Rita Ora
703. Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
704. “He opened his heart to me. He wasn’t afraid to show me his weakness. It was a remarkable thing. in that time. for a man to do that. That’s the key thing about a strong marriage. It gives you a safe place to be yourself. entirely. even the weak parts.” – Shilpi Somaya Gowda. The Golden Son
705. Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. —Malcolm S. Forbes
706. “Courage is the birthplace of confidence”. – Debbie Millman
707. “When we feel good about the choices we’re making and when we’re engaging with the world from a place of worthiness rather than scarcity, we feel no need to judge and attack.”
708. “How I relate to my inner self influences my relationships with all others. My satisfaction with myself and my satisfaction with other people are directly proportional.” – Sue Atchley Ebaugh
709. “To be happy you don’t need to be perfect. You just need to be real and accept yourself as you are because you are already enough.” – Unknown
710. “With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.” —The Dalai Lama
711. “Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. imagination encircles the world”
712. “It ain’t what they call you. it’s what you answer to.”
713. “I walk around like everything is fine. But deep down, inside my shoe, my sock is sliding off.”
714. “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.” – J.M. Barrie
715. “You wear a mask for so long. you forget who you were beneath it.”
716. “Shine your light. be true to yourself. be the best you can be. Show your true colors. be real. be honest. be genuine.”
717. “The most beautiful makeup for a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.”
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719. “From the very beginning you are being told to compare yourself with others. This is the greatest disease; it is like a cancer that goes on destroying your very soul because each individual is unique. and comparison is not possible.” – Osho
720. “I want to have goblins about me. for I am courageous.”
721. “Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It’s tough to do that when we’re terrified about what people might see or think.”
722. “The roots of beauty are love and kindness, the fruits are meaning and purpose.”
723. “If we want more healing and peace in the world, let us each start with our homes, our relationships, our mindsets, and ourselves.”―Lisa J. Shultz
724. “Surround yourself with people who only lift you higher.” – Payal Kadakia
725. “A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.” -Marge Piercy
726. The most alluring thing a woman can have is confidence.
727. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength. while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu
728. “God is full of love. joy and peace. Every religion has said that God is within us or we are a part of God so why do we think small?”
729. “Successful people have fear. successful people have doubts. and successful people have worries. They just don’t let these feelings stop them.” — T. Harv Eker
730. “Confidence doesn’t come out of nowhere. It’s a result of something… hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.” — Roger Staubach
731. “The meaning of life is that it is to be lived. and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a pattern of systems.” – Bruce Lee
732. “It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.” – Elizabeth Kenny
733. “The moment you doubt whether you can fly. you cease for ever to be able to do it.” ~ J. M. Barrie
734. “Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves even when we risk disappointing others.” – Brené Brown
735. “I won’t just have a job; I’ll have a calling. I’ll challenge myself every day. When I get knocked down. I’ll get back up. I may not be the smartest person in the room. but I’ll strive to be the grittiest.”
736. “It takes courage to walk away from disagreements.” ~ Amanda RayInner Strength Quotes
737. “Be who you were created to be. and you will set the world on fire.”—St. Catherine of Sienna
738. “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” ~ E.E. Cummings
739. “success awaits those who steadfastly commit to any requisite sacrifice.” ―Ken Poirot
740. “Sorry I can’t hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.” -Unkown
741. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”―Ralph Waldo Emerson
742. “Don’t try to be different, and don’t try to be like everyone else: just be yourself.”― Matshona Dhliwayo
743. “He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
744. “When you start seeing your worth, you’ll find it harder to stay around people who don’t.” — Author Unknown
745. “The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.” — Kahlil Gibran
746. Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love. – Thomas Traherne
747. “Always refuse to be like the others! The more you become similar to the others the more you will be useless because there are already plenty of the others!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan
748. “He lay down upon a sumptuous divan. and proceeded to instruct himself with honest zeal.”
749. “Self-care is never a selfish act - it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have. the gift I was put on earth to offer others.”
750. “Yes. Joseph.”
751. Remember, it's ok to be yourself.
752. “Seeking external validation brings disappointment. Validate yourself from within to find true happiness.”
753. “I think that you can fall into bad habits with comedy… It’s a tightrope to stay true to the character. true to the irony. and allow the irony to happen.” ~ Ben Kingsley
754. “Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.” – Baltasar Gracian
755. “It’s the ability to resist to use failure that often leads to great success.”– J.K. Rowling
756. You decide every day who you will and will not be. Be bold in your decision but remember, choose wisely.
757. “You cannot change what you are, only what you do.” – Philip Pullman
758. “Be who you are. not who the world wants you to be.”– Unknown
759. “Don’t waste your energy trying to change opinions…Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.” – Tina Fey
760. “Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.”
761. The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
762. Don't look at the big picture as the only achievement. Start with set, smart goals and work up to something bigger. — Jordyn Wieber
763. “Live authentically. Grow continuously. Care for others. Give your best. Serve with humility.”
764. “Self care is how you take your power back.” – Lalah Delia
765. “No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.”- W. H. Auden
766. “Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got.”
767. Harry then did something that was both very brave and very stupid
768. “I always had that self-belief that I was good enough. You have got to believe you are good enough. otherwise there is no point…” – Glenn McGrath
769. “The distance between your dreams and reality is called action.” — Author Unknown
770. “If you’re able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.” – Barbara Cook
771. “Self-doubt imprisons those that never overcome it.” – Obiora Embry
772. “The middle is messy, but it is also where the magic happens.”
773. “Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.”
774. “The best people possess a feeling for beauty. the courage to take risks. the discipline to tell the truth. the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically. their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded. sometimes destroyed.” – Ernest Hemingway
775. “Your speed doesn’t matter, forward is forward.”
776. “Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous. Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.”
777. “The entire universe deserve your love. You also deserve to experience it back.”
778. “If you know what to do to reach your goal, it’s not a big enough goal.” ― Bob Proctor
779. “Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.”
780. “Authenticity: Knowing who you are and being brave enough to live it.”
781. “To live the life of your dreams, focus on yourself and your goals.” – Nitin Namdeo
782. “I’m the only person that I should like and know thoroughly.”
783. “Each time we face our fear. we gain strength. courage. and confidence in the doing.” — Theodore Roosevelt
784. Without passion, you won’t do something 100 percent. That’s the bottom line. – Apolo Ohno
785. “Self-confidence is a super power. Once you start to believe in yourself. magic starts happening.” – Confidence quote
786. “It takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.” – David Foster Wallace
787. “Of all our infirmities. the most savage is to despise our being.” — Michel de Montaigne
788. “Shame works like the zoom lens on a camera. When we are feeling shame, the camera is zoomed in tight and all we see is our flawed selves, alone and struggling.”
789. “Believe in yourself. take on your challenges. dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going.” – Chantal Sutherland
790. “It took vulnerability to forge strength. the way true courage required fear.” — Martina Boone
791. “The real test is not whether you avoid this failure because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction. or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.”
792. “Optimism doesn’t wait on fact it deals with prospects.” – Norman Cousins
793. Medea? Don't worry. Satara's rooms are far enough away that you won't be subjected to the sounds of wild monkey sex. (Stryker)
794. We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. — Margaret Atwood
795. Transparency means that my motives are easily perceived. No hidden agendas and I prove it through my actions.
796. You don’t need to love everything about yourself to have self-love; loving yourself is first about accepting yourself completely.
797. “When nobody celebrates you, learn to celebrate yourself. When nobody compliments you, then compliment yourself. It’s not up to other people to keep you encouraged. It’s up to you. Encouragement should come from the inside.” – Joel Osteen
798. There are no ugly women in the world, just lazy ones.
799. “Self-discipline is the center of all material success. You can’t win the war against the world if you can’t win the war against your own mind.” – Will Smith
800. Character. Intelligence. Strength. Style. That Makes Beauty.” — Diane Von Furstenberg
801. “Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don’t be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren’t paying any attention to you.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
802. “In your own life its important to know how spectacular you are.” – Steve Maraboli
803. “Courage is resistance to fear. mastery of fear. not absence of fear.” –Mark Twain
804. “Believe in yourself. take on your challenges. dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going”
805. “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.”
806. If you don’t love yourself, nobody will. Not only that, you won’t be good at loving anyone else. Loving starts with the self.
807. “If there is a reason to be sorrowful. then there is a reason to be happy. You have only one lifetime. don’t live your life in sorrow! Be happy! Be happy no matter what. and only mind the lessons life teaches each day!”
808. “A problem is a chance for you to do your best.”
809. “Heavenly Father knows all about you, your strengths and weaknesses. He knows perfectly who you are, but He also knows who you can become. And with that knowledge, He has placed you here, now — at the exact place and time which you can do the most good with the talents and gifts he has given you.” — Craig C. Christensen
810. “Authenticity is magnetic.”
811. “The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours – it is an amazing journey – and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.” – Bob Moawad
812. “You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way.” ― Richard Bach
813. “Perfectionism is self-destructive simply because there’s no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal.”
814. “I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me.” – Tracee Ellis Ross
815. “Be yourself. don’t take anything from anyone. and never let them take you alive.”– Gerard Way
816. “Doubt discovers difficulties which it never solves; believe is the word which speaks life.” – Unknown
817. “You are blessed and highly favored.” – Les Brown
818. Remember you are enough.
819. “I think age is just a number – if you are young enough. you are old enough – as long as you are good enough. age shouldn’t come into it.” – Ashley Young
820. “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” ―Og Mandino
821. Think highly of yourself because the world takes you at your own estimate. - Kurt Hahn.
822. “She lacks confidence. she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.”
823. “Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.” – Helen Keller
824. “I find a gentle but ferocious strength in being vulnerable. Honesty turns shame into light.”
825. “You have to have confidence in your ability. and then be tough enough to follow through.” ~ Rosalynn Carter
826. “There’s nothing wrong with being different.” – David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick
827. “It takes strength to be proud of yourself and to accept yourself when you know that you have something out of the ordinary about you.”
828. “Your job is purely to love yourself. Truly and deeply. Feel it. Again and again. Make it your single-minded focus” – Kamal Ravikant; Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It
829. “He said we were making this move to learn about bravery and courage. That sounded awfully familiar.”
830. I have no college education; I taught myself how to write. If you want it badly enough, you can have it. You can walk into any room and convince the person that you know what you’re doing. – Erin Foster
831. “When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging. your worthiness. is a birthright and not something you have to earn. anything is possible.”
832. “Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort. time and energy needed to develop yourself.”
833. “Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.” – Theodore Roosevelt
834. Rely on yourself.
835. “Courage isn’t having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don’t have strength.”
836. “I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values. and follow my own moral compass. then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own." - Michelle Obama
837. “Authenticity without empathy is selfish. Authenticity without boundaries is careless.”
838. “In my mind, I’ve always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y’all just didn’t know yet.” – Will Smith
839. “There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
840. “Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.”
841. “Don’t ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It’s too short, and you’re too special.” – Ariana Grande
842. “A half truth is a whole lie.” ~ Yiddish Proverb
843. “Action is the foundational key to all success.”
844. “To be affirming and encouraging of others requires vulnerability on your part.” — Shandel Slaten
845. I’m trying to take the stigma off the word [ambitious] so we encourage more little girls to be ambitious, because I do think that’s how society will change.” — Reese Witherspoon
846. “Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.” — Blaise Pascal
847. “Little by little, I’m getting better all the time. I’ve not lost the passion to play.” – Lionel Messi
848. “The only thing that matters in life. is your own opinion about yourself.” – Osho
849. “A lot of people said, who do you think you are? I told them I know exactly who I am and I’ll tell you exactly where I’m going.” - Michael Caine
850. “Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.”– Jalaluddin Rumi #qoutes #quotestoliveby #qotd
851. “Your world needs you right now; don’t take your life. You matter. you are enough. and you are more.” – Olawale Daniel
852. “Excellence requires discomfort.” T.D. Jakes
853. “We run from grief because loss scares us. yet our hearts reach toward grief because the broken parts want to mend.”
854. “To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.” – Stanis_Aw Leszczy_Ski
855. “Do something today that your future self will thank you for.”
856. “To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when no-one else will.” – Sugar Ray Robinson
857. “You determine your self worth. You decide if you are good enough. It is up to you. Not someone else.”
858. “I am more than my scars.”—Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle
859. “The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability.” Simon Mainwaring
860. Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own? – Brigham Young
861. “If you continuously compete with others. you become bitter. but if you continuously compete with yourself you become better.” ―Unknown
862. How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you. — Rupi Kaur
863. “Scarcity of self value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention or influence.” – Gary Zukav
864. You have enough. You do enough. You are enough. Relax.
865. Even brave men blind themselves sometimes, when they are afraid to see.
866. “If we have a friend, or small group of friends, or family who embraces our imperfections, vulnerabilities, and power, and fills us with a sense of belonging, we are incredibly lucky.”
867. The older I become the more I dream of a world where I don’t need so much armor.— J.M. Storm
868. “I watched the clips on the news . . . and realized that my brother. in fact. was the most courageous man I knew. because Selma had nothing to do with him. Well. one could argue that it did. a little bit. But he was doing it for us. All of us.”
869. ″‘The only chance I had of coming at Prince Justin was to use that curse she’d put on me to get near her.’
870. “Whatever has the nature of arising has the nature of ceasing.” – The Buddha (Kimsuka Sutta)
871. “Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.” – Winston Churchill
872. You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.
873. “He who understands you is greater kin to you than your own brother. For even your own kindred neither understand you nor know your true worth.” – Khalil Gibran
874. “We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.” —Virginia Satir
875. “Habits are patterned repetitions. Dispose of repeating the negative which is definitely detrimental! Repeat the positive pattern!” – Andrie Wongo
876. “Don’t go through life. grow through life.” – Eric Butterworth
877. “I am beginning to realize that being good at being me will be my greatest contribution to the world…No has any business doing anything except being exactly who they are.” – Steve Maraboli
878. “Our life fully evolves depending on our mindset, what sort of life we want wholly depends on what sort of mindset we carry with. We can’t desire a rich life with a poor mindset.”―Lord Robin
879. “Just be yourself and let your personality reflect your style.” — Varun Dhawan
880. “If you don’t love yourself. nobody else is going to love you.”
881. “Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.” – Rumi
882. “Be the attitude you want to be around.” – Tim DeTellis
883. “Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.” – Arthur Koestler
884. “I believe that self-discipline is the definition of self-love.”
885. “Emotional pain cannot kill you. but running from it can. Allow. Embrace. Let yourself feel. Let yourself heal.”
886. If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. -Thomas Edison
887. “Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm. others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.”
888. “Self-confidence is the memory of success.” — David Storey
889. “Do what you can. with what you have. where you are.”
890. “You are enough. You’ve ALWAYS been more than enough. but to the wrong people you’ll always be inadequate.”
891. “Way down deep, we’re all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.” – Jim Davis
892. “I do not believe in taking the right decision. I take a decision and make it right.” ― Muhammad Ali Jinnah
893. Believe quotes for relationship.
894. “You laugh at me because I’m different. I laugh at you because you’re all the same.” ― Jonathan Davis
895. “Restyle your life forever by empowering yourself to incite the greatness in you.” ― Kamal Khanzada
896. “You weren’t born to just pay bills and die.”
897. “Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort.” Peter McWilliams
898. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and self belief.”
899. “Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.”– Quentin Crisp
900. “Don’t waste your time being what someone wants you to become. in order to feed their list of rules. boundaries and insecurities. Find your tribe. They will allow you to be you. while you dance in the rain.” ― Shannon L. Alder
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