- Step into the fire of self-discovery. This fire will not burn you, it will only burn what you are not. Mooji
- Deny self for self’s sake. Benjamin Franklin (See also: Benjamin Franklin about liberty and safety)
- It’s very hard to respect yourself when you give in to every temptation. If you want to build self-respect, build your willpower. @LifeMathMoney
- “Self-love, self-confident and self-determination.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
- Never trade respect for attention. Mel Robbins
- No one is going to value you more than you value yourself. Naval Ravikant
- If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Nobody can please everybody. Paulo Coelho
- “Words have power, and when you speak you give them life. Speak into the atmosphere. Speak into existence what you believe, desire, dream, and hope.” ― Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Heart Crush
- Never lose yourself to find others. @PersistentObser
- “About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to win the approval of supernatural beings. Very often, when I give my view that there is no supernatural dimension, and certainly not one that is only or especially available to the faithful, and that the natural world is wonderful enough—and even miraculous enough if you insist—I attract pitying looks and anxious questions. How, in that case, I am asked, do I find meaning and purpose in life? How does a mere and gross materialist, with no expectation of a life to come, decide what, if anything, is worth caring about?Depending on my mood, I sometimes but not always refrain from pointing out what a breathtakingly insulting and patronizing question this is. (It is on a par with the equally subtle inquiry: Since you don’t believe in our god, what stops you from stealing and lying and raping and killing to your heart’s content?) Just as the answer to the latter question is: self-respect and the desire for the respect of others—while in the meantime it is precisely those who think they have divine permission who are truly capable of any atrocity—so the answer to the first question falls into two parts. A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for the liberation of others cannot be called ‘meaningless’ except if the person living it is also an existentialist and elects to call it so. It could be that all existence is a pointless joke, but it is not in fact possible to live one’s everyday life as if this were so. Whereas if one sought to define meaninglessness and futility, the idea that a human life should be expended in the guilty, fearful, self-obsessed propitiation of supernatural nonentities… but there, there. Enough.” ― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
- He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- The most important relationship in your life is the one you have with yourself. The right person for you right now might be you. Mel Robbins
- Determination, courage, self-confidence lead to success, but we should always remain humble, modest and unpretentious. 14th Dalai Lama
- “If you have to convince someone that you are their soulmate then you didn’t realize the thousand other guys applying for the job.” ― Shannon L. Alder
- “Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.” ― Shannon L. Alder
- To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. Thich Nhat Hanh
- Self-knowledge will bring you calm. With calm, you’ll do the right thing. Sometimes, by doing the right thing, you’ll push some people. Do it anyway. Maxime Lagacé
- A thought is harmless unless we believe it. Byron Katie
- If we saw someone else treating us the way most of us treat ourselves, we might think them despicably cruel. Alain de Botton
- The more respect you give to others, the more you earn. Adam Grant
- “Waiting for ‘the right time to leave’ can quickly go from months to years without you even noticing. Sometimes we procrastinate out of fear, but remember that the longer you stay, the harder it is to leave.” ― Chidera Eggerue, How To Get Over A Boy
- Respect yourself and others will respect you. Confucius
- “You must love and respect yourself enough to never be a victim under any circumstance.” ― Gary Hopkins
- You can only be as authentic as you are self-aware. Susan Campbell
- “Self-Respect and wisdom are the only symbols of human beings.” ― Periyar E.V.Ramasamy
- Self-respect. It would make me lovable. Susan Sontag
- “Some of the most beautiful things worth having in your life come wrapped in a crown of thorns.” ― Shannon L. Alder
- “Dear Child, Sometimes on your travel through hell, you meet people that think they are in heaven because of their cleverness and ability to get away with things. Travel past them because they don’t understand who they have become and never will. These type of people feel justified in revenge and will never learn mercy or forgiveness because they live by comparison. They are the people that don’t care about anyone, other than who is making them feel confident. They don’t understand that their deity is not rejoicing with them because of their actions, rather he is trying to free them from their insecurities, by softening their heart. They rather put out your light than find their own. They don’t have the ability to see beyond the false sense of happiness they get from destroying others. You know what happiness is and it isn’t this. Don’t see their success as their deliverance. It is a mask of vindication which has no audience, other than their own kind. They have joined countless others that call themselves “survivors”. They believe that they are entitled to win because life didn’t go as planned for them. You are not like them. You were not meant to stay in hell and follow their belief system. You were bound for greatness. You were born to help them by leading. Rise up and be the light home. You were given the gift to see the truth. They will have an army of people that are like them and you are going to feel alone. However, your family in heaven stands beside you now. They are your strength and as countless as the stars. It is time to let go!Love, Your Guardian Angel” ― Shannon L. Alder
- Be your authentic self, not the person you think other people expect you to be. Payal Kadakia
- “Don’t ever stray from yourself, in order to be close to someone that doesn’t have the courtesy to remind you of your worth, or the integrity of a gentleman to walk you home.” ― Shannon L. Alder