- “Winning is great, but if it’s not enough then then you’ll never have enough!” ― Stephen Richards
- No matter how hard you try, there is always some guy or girl who achieves more. My attitude is, so what? Does any of us need to be at the very top of the whole world? It’s ridiculous. Charlie Munger
- “Our finger print represents our unique identity and individuality.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
- “With room to breathe and room to think, we can live a more meaningful life. And this type of ‘room’ is not necessarily physical space; rather, it is the absence of all that is extraneous alongside the sweet feeling of liberation that comes with realising that you have enough, and that you are enough, just as you are. To put it another way, that you can become spacious in yourself as your home becomes your place to be fearless, completely at ease and absolutely splendid in your imperfections and obsessions.” ― Michelle Ogundehin, Happy Inside: How to harness the power of home for health and happiness
- “We are treated exactly the way we expect to be treated by the world and its people.” ― Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace: Essential Teachings for Enriching Life
- When someone bases their self-esteem on the approval of others, they are abandoning themselves. It is an exhausting and powerless way to live. Neil Strauss
- I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. Frederick Douglass
- “Your actions show what you know, and your replies to obstacles give clarity into what you will learn.” ― Grace Sara, Awakening in the 21st Century: Considering Existence
- “How big we are ‘not’ is evidenced when we stand face-to-face with everything else, including ourselves.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
- “Every beginner possesses a great potential to be an expert in his or her chosen field.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
- Respect your uniqueness, and drop comparison. Relax into your being. Osho
- “When the world is loud, create your own peace.” ― Michele Gustafson, Show Up Confident: The New Way To Get Ready For Your Day And Your Life
- “You don’t’ have to fear. You only need to have faith.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
- “It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.” ― John Joseph Powell, The Secret of Staying in Love
- “You can’t fake confidence. Confidence can only come as a result of competence.” ― Leslie Ehm, Swagger: Unleash Everything You Are and Become Everything You Want
- You acquire self-esteem when you always do what you said you would do. @orangebook_
- “The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.”[Modernism’s Patriarch (Time Magazine, June 10, 1996)]” ― Robert Hughes
- It’s exhausting caring about what other people think. Thibaut
- It is weakness that is the source of all selfishness. Swami Vivekananda
- Don’t tell yourself some bullsh*t story about you can’t do this or that. Don’t even allow yourself to say you’re not good enough. Sure, maybe you can’t do something yet, and maybe you’ll never be the greatest of all time. But who gives a sh*t? Tom Bilyeu
- “Daily meditation promotes self confidence, peace of mind and strong faith in God.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
- “We are exactly what our history made us to be.” ― Stephen Richards, Boost Your Self Esteem
- “The best thing to learn from any government is that it does not get affacted by what other people talk or think about it.” ― Amit Kalantri
- If you want to see the love of your life, look in the mirror. Byron Katie
- “The possibility of the dream gives strength.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
- Never make this mistake of thinking that you elevate yourself by humiliating people. Robert Greene
- “Believe in yourself. Under-confidence leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy that you are not good enough for your work.” ― Dr Roopleen
- “I mostly want to remind her of the recipes of healing, and give her my own made-on-the spot remedy for the easing of her pain. I tell her, “Get a pen. Stop crying so you can write this down and start working on it tonight.” My remedy is long. But the last item on the list says: “When you wake up and find yourself living someplace where there is nobody you love and trust, no community, it is time to leave town – to pack up and go (you can even go tonight). And where you need to go is any place where there are arms that can hold you, that will not let you go.” ― bell hooks, Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery
- “His looks were the kind that improved with age if one had the confidence that came with success but became blander if one did not.” ― Marc Grossberg, The Best People: A Tale of Trials and Errors
- To keep going when it’s tough is important. To believe in yourself no matter what is vital. Maxime Lagacé