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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.Being true to anyone else or anything else is...impossible.
Richard Bach, Illusions
You must betrue to yourself.Strong enough to betrue to yourself.Brave enough to bestrong enough to betrue to yourself.Wise enough to bebrave enough to bestrong enough toshape yourself from whatyou actually are.
Sylvia AshtonWarner, (in Myself)
The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Jim Rohn
If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
Alexander the Great
Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
Friedrich von Schiller
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend,And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.This above all: to thine ownself be true,And it must follow, as the night the day,Thou canst not then be false to any man.(Polonius speaking)
William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act
Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.
Joe Clark
My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty.
Mahatma Gandhi
No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
Henry Wheeler Shaw
A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
Johann von Goethe
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
Denis Waitley
I will give thanks to thee for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are Thy works, and my soul knows it very well. Psalms 139:14
Bible
Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.
J. PetitSenn, Conceits and Capri
To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.
Joan Didion
Blessed are they who heal us of self-despising. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious.
William Hale White
Self-worth comes from one thing -- thinking that you are worthy.
Wayne Dyer
Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.
U. Thant
We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.
Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecu
Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.
Doris Mortman
