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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- 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
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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Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
- Samuel Johnson [also attributed to Oscar Wilde]
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
The feeling of friendship is like that
of being comfortably filled with roast beef;
love, like being enlivened with champagne.
- Samuel Johnson
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me
was when one asked me what I thought,
and attended to my answer.
- Henry David Thoreau
No amount of self-improvement can make up
for a lack of self-acceptance.
- Anonymous
Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect,
and the absence of ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Ninety-nine percent of who you are
is invisible and untouchable.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Friendship with one's self is all important,
because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Make your "yes" mean yes,
and your "no" mean no.
- John Wooden
Goes the song, "we change, we change."
But the music is still mine.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We disrespect ourselves and our free-will
whenever we say that we NEED to do something.
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I have a great deal of company in the house,
especially in the morning when nobody calls.
- Henry David Thoreau
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter
People can be more forgiving than you can imagine.
But you have to forgive yourself.
Let go of what's bitter and move on.
- Bill Cosby
In my friend, I find a second self.
- Isabel Norton
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau
This communicating of a man's self to his friend
works two contrary effects;
for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon
A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz
Every man has his own courage,
and is betrayed because he seeks in himself
the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
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You get what you settle for.
- the character Louise in the movie Thelma and Louise
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserves your love and affection.
- The Buddha
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
No one is in control of your happiness but you;
therefore, you have the power to change anything
about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara De Angelis
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Don't look for approval from anyone other than yourself.
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Freedom is from within.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Free-Will is the key to the prison of the mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who lives in harmony with himself
lives in harmony with the universe.
- Marcus Aurelius
To travel is to take a journey into yourself.
- Danny Kaye
Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
We must be our own before we can be another's.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We all go through life bristling
at our external limitations,
but the most difficult chains
to break are inside us.
- Bradley Whitford
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
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You can never really live anyone else's life,
not even your child's.
The influence you exert is through your own life,
and what you've become yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
Friendship without self-interest
is one of the rare and beautiful things in life.
- James Francis Byrnes
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself,
than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
- Henry David Thoreau
I'm not a genius.
I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
No one is free who is not master of himself.
- Epictetus
Make the most of yourself,
for that is all there is of you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is,
a dissatisfaction with self.
- Joan Didion
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)
The freedom we are looking for
is the freedom to be ourselves,
to express ourselves. But if we look at our lives
we will see that most of the time
we do things just to please others ...
The worst part is that most of us
are not even aware that we are not free.
-Don Miguel Ruiz
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
- Joseph Campbell
May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
At the Core of Our Suffering
are those Self-Imposed Limitations (Assumptions)
of which We are Completely Unaware.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
Small people never learn to be indifferent;
they either envy or pity.
- Anonymous
Interdependence is and ought to be
as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
Man is a social being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Once you respect yourself, there is no longer
any reason to disrespect anyone else.
Once you are confident of your own worthiness,
the worthiness of others ceases to be an issue.
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Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
With realization of one's own potential and
self-confidence in one's ability,
one can build a better world.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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