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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
Related topics: Positive Motivational Self-Confidence
Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson
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If a man does not make new acquaintances
as he advances through life,
he will soon find himself alone.
A man, sir, should keep his friendships in constant repair.
- Samuel Johnson
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt
until they are too strong to be broken.
- Samuel Johnson
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz 
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
May you delight in Dancing Lightly With Life.
May you soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world.
May you always sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
May you taste, smell, and touch your dreams of a beautiful tomorrow.
May your sun always shine, and your sky be forever blue.
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It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
You are a magnificent gift to the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What you seem to be, be really.
- Benjamin Franklin
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
- Joseph Campbell
To thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect
and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance,
as is every other life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Smile broadly, sing loudly,
paint your rooms in bold colors,
search every rabbit hole
for a magical white bunny,
have caviar for breakfast
and oatmeal for dinner,
wear a purple coat with a red hat -
dance lightly with life.
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You can have no dominion greater or
less than that over yourself.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
We are what we pretend to be,
so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut
No man is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
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You are today where your thoughts have brought.
- James Allen
Never bend your head. Always hold it high.
Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller
Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I sail the seas of life as the MASTER of my ship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What you do speaks so loudly
that I cannot hear what you say.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What you think of me is none of my business.
- Terry Cole-Whittaker
Whenever you do a thing,
act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson
Freedom is not worth having if it
does not connote freedom to err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Your life belongs only to you.
- Ayn Rand
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Forgiveness is the only way to heal
- don Miguel Ruiz
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
- Michael Jordan
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Our mettle is tested by storms,
not by calm.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have no need to conform to the stereotypes
others have defined for me.
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Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What is necessary to change a person is
to change his awareness of himself.
- Abraham Maslow
Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.
- Lao-Tzu
What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
- Helen Keller
You are important. You are the star -
the only star - of your own life show.
Everyone else is a bit player in the great drama of your life.
Be of service to humanity, but never be anyone's doormat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
- Walt Whitman
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of others' opinions
drown out your own inner voice.
And most important, have the courage
to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary.
- Steve Jobs
I rest in the light of forgiveness.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
Since you are the one who has to live with your choices,
be sure they are your own.
- Alan Cohen
People travel to wonder at the height of mountains,
at the huge waves of the sea,
at the long courses of rivers,
at the vast compass of the ocean,
at the circular motion of the stars;
and they pass by themselves without wondering.
- St. Augustine
What you are comes to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is more valuable than your self respect.
When you lose respect for yourself, you have lost everything.
Whatever it takes, and whoever you upset,
do what you know - deep inside - is the right thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I do myself a greater injury in lying
than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
- Michel de Montaigne
Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I will dance a little.
I will move with the wind.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln
Inferiority Complex:
a name for not loving yourself enough.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies
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