Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
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Our sense of self-worth is also the key to being able to appreciate the other factors of fulfillment. Interestingly, feeling compassion for others is the most reliable way to increase your own self-worth. – Dalai Lama
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If you have a sincere and open heart, you naturally feel self-worth and confidence and there is no need to be fearful of others – Dalai Lama
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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness. ?~Ayn Rand
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You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love & affection. ~Buddha
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Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid. ~Albert Einstein
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People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within. ~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
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Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God’s curriculum. ~Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer
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It's not your job to like me...it's MINE! ~Byron Katie
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Whoever you are, there is some younger person who thinks you are perfect. There is some work that will never be done if you don't do it. There is someone who would miss you if you were gone. There is a place that you alone can fill. ~Jacob M. Braude
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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. ~William James
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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. ~Samuel Johnson
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The greatest success is successful self-acceptance. ~Ben Sweet
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The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others. ?~Sonya Friedman
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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 to others. ~Parker Palmer
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Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. ~Louise L. Hay
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The strongest single factor in acquiring abundance is self-esteem: believing you can do it, believing you deserve it, believing you will get it. ~ Jerry Gillies
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Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible. ~Claude Bissell
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Self-love, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting. ~William Shakespeare
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Seek respect mainly from thyself, for it comes first from within. ?~Steven Coogler
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When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life. ?~Jean Shinoda Bolen
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When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight. ~Michael Bridge
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When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too. ?~Jake Steinfeld
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Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. ~Charles Dickens
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There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity. People who do not experience self-love have little or no capacity to love others. ~Nathaniel Branden
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You are much deeper, much broader, much brighter than any idea you could have of yourself. ~Harry Palmer
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Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults. ~Les Brown
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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. ~Plato
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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. ?~Richard Bach
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Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. ?~Albert Einstein
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Because your existence in time and space is unique, there are lives that only you can touch. ~Harry Palmer
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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. ?~Samuel Johnson
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Don't let what you are being get in the way of what you might become. ~Harry Palmer
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Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. ~Wendy Wasserstein
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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
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It's not what you are that holds you back, It's what you think you're not. ?~Denis Waitley
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I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business. ~Michael J. Fox
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High self-esteem isn't a luxury. It's a necessity for anyone who has important goals to achieve. ~Jack Canfield
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Self-esteem is as necessary to the spirit as food is to the body. ?~Dr. Maxwell Maltz
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Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye. ?~Helen Keller
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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
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ?~Eleanor Roosevelt
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You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. ?~Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
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When we are no longer able to change a situation... We are challenged to change ourselves. ~Viktor Frankl
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I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot... and missed. And I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. ~Michael Jordan
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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
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Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have. ~Doris Mortman
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Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't - you're right. ~Henry Ford
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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 to others. ~Parker Palmer
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Whatever good things we build end up building us. ~Jim Rohn
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Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born. ~Dale E. Turner
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Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable. ~Zig Ziglar
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Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.?~Baltasar Gracian
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Self pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in the world. ~Helen Keller
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Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world making the most of one's best. ?~Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life. ~Joe Clark
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Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality. ?~Les Brown
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Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.?~Anthony Trollope
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. ~Marcel Proust
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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
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It is never too late to be what you might have been. ~George Eliot
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It is not our abilities that show what we truly are…it is our choices. ~Dumbledore
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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
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You have brains in your head.?
You have feet in your shoes.?
You can steer yourself?any direction you choose.?
You're on your own.
And you know what you know.?
And YOU are the guy who'll decide where to go. ~Dr. Seuss
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There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist,?or accept the responsibility for changing them. ~Denis Waitley
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Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.?~Anthony Trollope
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If you put a small value on yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. ~Unknown Author
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A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves. ~Jean De La Bruyere
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I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this. ?~A. C. Benson
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There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ~Hindu Proverb
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There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. ~Aldous Huxley
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Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. – Harvey Feinstein
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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. – Aldous Leonard Huxley
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Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think. – Benjamin Disraeli
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Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibilities into flames of achievement. – Golda Meir
