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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. ...
by Samuel Johnson

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson

Related topics: Positive Motivational Self-Confidence

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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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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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