100+ Self Worth Inspirational Quotes to Empower and Uplift Your Spirit

"We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."

- Marianne Williamson

"You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anyone."

- Maya Angelou

"You are as amazing as you let yourself be. Let me repeat that. You are as amazing as you let yourself be."

- Elizabeth Alraune

"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love & affection."

- Buddha

"Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy."

- Wayne Dyer

"Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving."

- Maxwell Maltz

"Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults."

- Les Brown

"It's not what you are that holds you back, It's what you think you're not."

- Denis Waitley

"Self-esteem and self-love are the opposites of fear; the more you like yourself, the less you fear anything."

- Brian Tracy

"Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on."

- Maxwell Maltz

"You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody."

- Maya Angelou

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- Christopher Robin

"You can’t hate yourself into change. Love yourself into greatness."

- Emma Lovewell

"Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t, pretend that you do, and at some point, you will."

- Venus Williams

"Self-worth comes from one thing—thinking that you are worthy."

- Wayne Dyer

"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started."

- Cicero

"You are enough, a thousand times enough."

- Atticus

"Until you love yourself, you will never know who you really are and you won’t know what you’re really capable of."

- Louise Hay

"Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around and talk about you. What's important to me is not others' opinions of me, but what's important to me is my opinion of myself."

- C. JoyBell C.

"Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work."

- Jack Nicklaus

"You are valuable simply because you exist. Not because of what you do or what you have done, but simply because you are."

- Max Lucado

"Everything you could possibly ever want, have, or need is right here inside of you."

- Kristin McGee

"You can be the most beautiful person in the world and everybody sees light and rainbows when they look at you, but if you yourself don't know it, all of that doesn't even matter. Every second that you spend on doubting your worth, every moment that you use to criticize yourself; is a second of your life wasted, is a moment of your life thrown away. It's not like you have forever, so don't waste any of your seconds, don't throw even one of your moments away."

- C. JoyBell C.

"Strong people have a strong sense of self-worth and self-awareness; they don’t need the approval of others."

- Roy T. Bennett

"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time."

- Anna Freud

"Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle."

- Christian D. Larson

"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Believing in our hearts that who we are is enough is the key to a more satisfying and balanced life."

- Ellen Sue Sterm

"Your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude."

- Michelle Obama

"You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You are enough. You are so enough. It is unbelievable how enough you are."

- Sierra Boggess

"Believe in yourself, and you’re halfway there."

- Callie Gullickson

"Don't dilute yourself for any person or any reason. You are enough! Be unapologetically you."

- Steve Maraboli

"The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself."

- Steve Maraboli

"Don’t dilute yourself for any person or any reason."

- Tina Fey

"I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it."

- Johnny Depp

"The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation."

- Abraham Maslow

"So long as you are still worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself."

- Neale Donald Walsch

"I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line."

- Lucille Ball

"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

"Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It’s about accepting all of yourself."

- Tyra Banks

"When I loved myself enough, I no longer needed things or people to make me feel safe."

- Kim McMillen

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

- William James

"The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself."

- Maya Angelou

"The price tag that you put on your soul will determine the people and circumstances in which you find yourself."

- Shannon L. Alder

"The first place where self-esteem begins its journey is within us."

- Stephen Richards

"Self respect, self worth and self love, all start with self. Stop looking outside of yourself for your value."

- Rob Liano

"The more you value yourself, the healthier your boundaries are."

- Lorraine Nilon

"As you become more aligned with the truth of who you are, the question of liking yourself goes away. It is a natural state of being."

- Rachel Andrews

"Think highly of yourself because the world takes you at your own estimate."

- Kurt Hahn

"Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it. You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won’t accept."

- Anna Taylor

"You are not your mistakes. They are what you did. Not who you are."

- Lisa Lieberman-Wang

"To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself, for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are."

- Anne Lamott

"Respect yourself, love yourself, because there has never been a person like you and there never will be again."

- Osho

"When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process."

- Dave Pelzer

"You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress."

- Sophia Bush

"You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be."

- Wayne W. Dyer

"Only make decisions that support your self-image, self-esteem, and self-worth."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Know your worth, hold your own power, be you."

- Morgan Harper Nichols

"A diamond doesn't start out polished and shining. It once was nothing special, but with enough pressure and time, becomes spectacular. I'm that diamond."

- Solange Nicole

"Tell yourself how wonderful you are, how great you are. Tell yourself how much you love yourself."

- Don Miguel Ruiz

"Stop trying to "fix" yourself; you're NOT broken! You are perfectly imperfect and powerful beyond measure."

- Steve Maraboli

"Do you know God loves you? He really does. To Him, you're perfect, absolutely perfect. You always have been."

- Nikki Rosen

"People settle for so much less because they find their identities in the world's fickle and untrue opinions. God made you royal with His blood. Live."

- Lacey Sturm

"Contrary to popular thinking, being worthy isn't something you earn, it's something you recognize."

- Mike Dooley

"You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself"

- Deepak Chopra

"Dare to love yourself, as if you were a rainbow, with gold at both ends."

- Aberjhani

"The most destructive thing we can possibly do in life is to make another person doubt his worth and identity as a child of God. The very most productive thing we can do is to help ourselves and others realize that as children of God, our worth is infinite."

- Toni Sorenson

"You are not what happened to you. You are what you choose to become."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"You are one thing only. You are a Divine Being. An all-powerful Creator. You are a Deity in jeans and a t-shirt, and within you dwells the infinite wisdom of the ages and the sacred creative force of All that is, will be and ever was."

- Anthon St. Maarten

"Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option."

- Mark Twain

"know that you yourself are a miracle."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"A shy person who is afraid of the attention of others is not free of ego, but has an ambivalent ego that both wants and fears attention from others. The fear is that the attention may take the form of disapproval or criticism, that is to say, something that diminishes the sense of self rather than enhances it. So the shy person's fear of attention is greater than his or her need of attention. Shyness often goes with a self concept that is predominantly negative, the belief of being inadequate. Any conceptual sense of self – seeing myself as this or that is ego, whether predominantly positive (I am the greatest) or negative (I am no good). Behind every positive self concept is the hidden fear of not being good enough. Behind every negative self concept its the hidden desire of being the greatest or better than others. Behind the confident ego's feeling of and continuing need for superiority is the unconscious fear of inferiority. Conversely, the shy, inadequate ego that feels inferior has a strong hidden desire for superiority. Many people fluctuate between feelings of inferiority and superiority, depending on situations or the people they come into contact with. All you need to know and observe in yourself is this: whenever you feel superior or inferior to anyone, that's the ego in you. Why does the ego play roles? Because of one unexamined assumption, one fundamental error, one unconscious thought. That thought is: I am not enough. Other unconscious thoughts follow: I need to play a role in order to get what I need to be fully myself; I need to get more so that I can be more. But you cannot be more than you are because underneath your physical and psychological form, you are one with Life itself, one with Being. In form, you are and will always be inferior to some, superior to others. In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the ego, self esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same."

- Eckhart Tolle

"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

"Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down."

- Roy T. Bennett

"You don’t need anyone’s permission to be yourself."

- T. Harv Eker

"No one is you, and that is your power."

- Dave Grohl

"You have a unique purpose and no one can fulfill it except you."

- Joel Osteen

"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself."

- Michel de Montaigne

"The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence."

- Blake Lively

"Self-confidence is contagious."

- Stephen Richards

"You did not wake up to be mediocre."

- Robin Arzón

"I am, I can, I will, I do."

- Christine D’Ercole

"There’s no limit to what you can do."

- Adrian Williams

"We’re all about progress, not perfection."

- Selena Samuela

"You are a rockstar. Treat yourself accordingly."

- Hannah Corbin

"If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you."

- Fred Devito

"Bring it. Build it. Become it."

- Sam Yo

"Don’t be defined by other people’s expectations. Define your own strengths."

- Susie Chan

"If you think you can’t, change your mind."

- Denis Morton

"If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves."

- Thomas Alva Edison

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

- Helen Keller

"The numbers do not define you."

- Christine D’Ercole

"Never give up because great things take time."

- Adrian Williams

"You are not enough. You are everything!"

- Matty Maggiacomo

"Don’t compare your chapter one with someone else’s chapter six."

- Ally Love

"Acknowledge the fear and do it anyway."

- Emma Lovewell

"Trust that you are doing it right."

- Chelsea Jackson Roberts

"Put your crown back on your head and remember who you are."

- Robin Arzón

"They can knock you down, but they can never knock you out."

- Kendall Toole

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."

- Michael Jordan

"You’re allowed to be a work in progress and a masterpiece at the same damn time."

- Jess Sims

"Inhale confidence, exhale doubt."

- Alex Toussaint

"Challenge yourself, and be determined to thrive."

- Becs Gentry

"Sometimes you have to fight more than once to win it."

- Bradley Rose

"Can I do this? Absolutely!"

- Cody Rigsby

"Dream it. Believe it. Receive it."

- Selena Samuela

"The difference between try and triumph is a little ‘umph.’"

- Marvin Phillips

"Own your body. Challenge your mind."

- Hannah Frankson

"Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory."

- Arthur Ashe

"Don’t let anyone dim your light. You were born to shine, baby!"

- Kirsten Ferguson

"Experience your own resilience."

- Mariana Fernández

"Don’t rely on compliments for confidence."

- Christine D’Ercole

"Believe deep down in your heart that you’re destined to do great things."

- Joe Paterno

"Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens."

- Louise L. Hay

"Your worth consists in what you are, and not in what you have. What you are will show in what you do."

- Thomas Davidson

"You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

"Don’t waste your energy trying to change opinions…. Do your thing and don’t care if they like it."

- Tina Fey

"You teach people how to treat you by what you allow, what you stop, and what you reinforce."

- Tony Gaskins

"If you value yourself, you understand that you are a gift to anyone you meet."

- Rhonda Britten

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."

- Oscar Wilde

"The moment you feel you have to prove your worth to someone is the moment to absolutely and utterly walk away."

- Alysia Harris

"Never dull your shine for somebody else."

- Tyra Banks

"Self-love is the source of all our other loves."

- Yung Pueblo

"You are your best thing."

- Toni Morrison

"You are not what you’ve done. You are what you keep doing."

- Jack Butcher

"Life is tough, my darling, but so are you."

- Stephanie Bennett Henry

"…if there’s one thing I’m willing to bet on, it’s myself."

- Beyoncé

"You were born an original. Don’t die a copy."

- John Mason

"You are the only person on Earth who can use your ability."

- Zig Ziglar

"Accept who you are, and revel in it."

- Mitch Albom

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Accept who you are; and revel in it."

- Mitch Albom

"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."

- Kurt Cobain

"Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be."

- Avril Lavigne

"Feel good. Look good. Do better! … Trust the process."

- Alex Toussaint

"Limits only exist in your mind. If you want, you can do so much more."

- Tobias Heinze

"There will always be someone willing to hurt you, put you down, gossip about you, belittle your accomplishments and judge your soul. It is a fact that we all must face. However, if you realize that God is a best friend that stands beside you when others cast stones you will never be afraid, never feel worthless and never feel alone."

- Shannon Alder

"As long as you look for someone else to validate who you are by seeking their approval, you are setting yourself up for disaster. You have to be whole and complete in yourself. No one can give you that. You have to know who you are - what others say is irrelevant."

- Nic Sheff

"I have realized; it is during the times I am far outside my element that I experience myself the most. That I see and feel who I really am, the most! I think that's what a comet is like, you see, a comet is born in the outer realms of the universe! But it's only when it ventures too close to our sun or to other stars that it releases the blazing "tail" behind it and shoots brazen through the heavens! And meteors become sucked into our atmosphere before they burst like firecrackers and realize that they're shooting stars! That's why I enjoy taking myself out of my own element, my own comfort zone, and hurling myself out into the unknown. Because it's during those scary moments, those unsure steps taken, that I am able to see that I'm like a comet hitting a new atmosphere: suddenly I illuminate magnificently and fire dusts begin to fall off of me! I discover a smile I didn't know I had, I uncover a feeling that I didn't know existed in me... I see myself. I'm a shooting star. A meteor shower. But I'm not going to die out. I guess I'm more like a comet then. I'm just going to keep on coming back."

- C. JoyBell C.

"Keep watering yourself. You’re growing."

- E.Russell

"Be faithful to that which exists within yourself."

- Andre Gide

"It is so liberating to really know what I want, what truly makes me happy, what I will not tolerate. I have learned that it is no one else’s job to take care of me but me."

- Beyoncé

"One of the best guides to how to be self-loving is to give ourselves the love we are often dreaming about receiving from others."

- Bell Hooks

"Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves even when we risk disappointing others."

- Brené Brown

"The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else."

- E. E. Cummings

"Your only job is to be your truest self."

- Chelsie Diane

"Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it."

- M. Scott Peck

"Think thoughts that make you feel good, make choices that make you feel good, and take actions that make you feel good."

- Cheryl Richardson

"We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light."

- Mary Dunbar

"No other love, no matter how genuine it is, can fulfill one’s heart better than unconditional self-love."

- Edmond Mbiaka

"Be the love you never received."

- Rune Lazuli

"If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person."

- Fred Rodgers

"How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you."

- Rupi Kaur

"Nobody is perfect. I just don’t believe in perfection. But I do believe in saying this is who I am and look at me not being perfect! I’m proud of that."

- Kate Winslet

"Even when it seems that there is no one else, always remember there’s one person who never ceased to love you – yourself."

- Sanhita Baruah

"Be a master at loving yourself and people will follow."

- Kim Guerra

"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have."

- Abraham Lincoln

"To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don’t wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now."

- Alan Cohen

"I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware, I sit content, And if each and all be aware, I sit content."

- Walt Whitman

"When people believe in themselves they have the first secret of success."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are."

- Yogi Bhajan

"To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."

- Aristotle

"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have."

- Doris Mortman

"All things splendid have been achieved by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance."

- Bruce Barton

"Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong."

- Peter T. McIntyre

"Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself."

- Nathaniel Branden

"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

"Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it."

- M. Scott Peck

"By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before."

- Edwin Elliot

"Jealousy is the result one’s lack of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance."

- Sasha Azevedo

"When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you."

- Winston S. Churchill

"We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies."

- Roderick Thorp

"You’re not free, unless you come to the place where you have nothing to prove."

- Joyce Meyer

"It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves."

- Edmund Hillary

"They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers."

- Christian Bovee

"If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground."

- Henrik Ibsen

"I am Superman. And the only thing that can kill Superman is Kryptonite. And Kryptonite doesn’t exist."

- Shaquille O'Neal

"Embrace the beauty of uncertainty. It’s a place of infinite possibility."

- Tunde Oyeneyin

"The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself."

- Mark Twain

"The true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure."

- Stephen Richards

"Look for balance but always be willing to fall."

- Anna Greenberg

"Rise up and greet your higher self."

- Kendall Toole

"What you have to give, the world needs."

- Aditi Shah

"Your problem is you're too busy holding onto your unworthiness."

- Ram Dass

"It's me who is my enemy. Me who beats me up. Me who makes the monsters. Me who strips my confidence."

- Paula Cole

"The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off."

- Robert Hand

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

"I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be "rich" by myself, and not by "borrowing"."

- Michel de Montainge

"Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish"

- Sam Walton

"It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes."

- Sally Field

"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are."

- Malcolm S. Forbes

"Opening the door to self-respect is a key of happiness."

- Charles Glassman

"A gold medal is a nice thing - but if you're not enough without it, you'll never be enough with it."

- From Cool Runnings

"Self doubt is the brother of shame."

- Erik H. Erikson

"The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives."

- Bernie S. Siegel

"You are always seeking pleasure, avoiding pain, always after happiness and peace. Don't you see that it is your very search for happiness that makes you feel miserable? Try the other way: indifferent to pain and pleasure, neither asking, nor refusing, give all your attention to the level on which 'I am' is timelessly present. Soon you will realise that peace and happiness are in your very nature and it is only seeking them through some particular channels, that disturbs."

- Nisargadatta

"Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness."

- Deborah Day

"If someone does not consider those around them to be valuable and hold only themselves in high regard, they too have a very bad self-esteem."

- Stephen Richards

"How we relate with other people is dependent on how we rate ourselves and what we think about ourselves."

- Stephen Richards

"Putting someone down with name calling reveals your own low self-esteem."

- Stephen Richards

"Rewriting the negative beliefs you have learned is the essence of becoming the director of your life."

- Deborah Day

"There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self."

- Hindu proverb

"If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are."

- Mother Teresa

"We are like the little branch that quivers during a storm, doubting our strength and forgetting we are the tree - deeply rooted to withstand all of life's upheavals."

- Dodinsky

"Whenever you are self-conscious you are simply showing that you are not conscious of the true Self at all."

- Osho

"I wish I could show you, When you are lonely or in darkness, The astonishing light of your own being."

- Hafez

"You are much deeper, much broader, much brighter than any idea you could have of yourself."

- Harry Palmer

"Your burden is of false self-identifications—abandon them all."

- Nisargadatta Maharaj

"When thus the mind becomes completely silent, it shines with a new light and vibrates with new knowledge. It all comes spontaneously, you need only hold on to the 'I am'."

- Nisargadatta

"Never was there anything outside of you. Never shall there be. The infinite expressed, a celebration to discover, YOU are the ONE."

- Harry Palmer

"You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be."

- Napoleon Hill

"If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be."

- Maya Angelou

"Your self-worth grows when you fight for something you love."

- Maxime Lagacé

"You are the architect of your own destiny."

- Swami Sivananda

"Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it."

- Jack Kornfield

"The problem is you’re afraid to acknowledge your own beauty. You’re too busy holding onto your unworthiness."

- Ram Dass

"Ye are gods"

- Jesus

"What we are looking for is what is looking."

- St. Francis of Assisi

"A champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall."

- Serena Williams

"I don't have to look for love, because I am love."

- Euphoria Godsent

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

"Consciousness is closer to you then you are to yourself"

- Meister Eckhart

"People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner." I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds."

- Carl Rogers

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience."

- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

"You are the universe, expressing itself as a human for a little while."

- Eckhart Tolle

"One of the things youre supposed to hold and be able to develop is divine pride, and learning to distinguish that from egoic pride is extremely imrportant, and once you actually figure that out thats graduation."

- Ken Wilber

"Accept your humanness as well as your divinity, totally and without reserve."

- Emmanuel

"Consciousness dwells in you, as you."

- Swami Vivekananda

"Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm, or they do not see it, or they justify it, because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves."

- T.S. Eliot

"Be the winner in your life!"

- Tae Yun Kim

"You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather."

- Pema Chödrön

"Come home to yourself."

- Robin Casarjean

"Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are."

- Chinese Proverb

"She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself."

- Anais Nin

"He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away."

- Raymond Hull

"If you are going to doubt something, doubt your limits."

- Don Ward

"You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down."

- Toni Morrison

"Like food is to the body, self-talk is to the mind. Don’t let any junk thoughts repeat in your head."

- Maddy Malhotra

"Don't be so defensive and afraid to be proven wrong that you miss the opportunity to learn from your mistakes."

- Karen E. Quinones Miller

"It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to."

- W.C. Fields

"The Universe is responding to who you FEEL you are."

- Abraham/Esther Hicks

"Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don't realize what messages they are sending."

- Virginia Satir

"Great tranquillity of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame."

- Thomas à Kempis

"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with"

- Wayne Dyer

"When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself."

- Wayne Dyer

"Embrace the glorious mess that you are."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself."

- Rita Mae Brown

"If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?"

- Lois McMaster Bujold

"It is a sign of strength, not of weakness, to admit that you don't know all the answers."

- John P. Loughrane

"Mirrors are liars. They tell us what we expect to see."

- Susanna Fraser

"Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing."

- Dr. Harriet Braiker

"I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man."

- Dwight L. Moody

"Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly."

- Proverb

"Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?"

- Ian

"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."

"Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do."

"You are enough, just as you are."

"Tear off the mask, your face is glorious."

"You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company."

"Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens."

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself."

"If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."

"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely."

"One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself."

"Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions. Do your thing, and don't care if they like it."

"Be messy and complicated and afraid and show up anyways."

"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him."

"Be whoever you want to be. People are going to judge you no matter what you do."

"When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you."

"Be yourself; because an original is worth more than a copy."

"Maybe sometimes you have to lose who you were to find out who you are."

"You shouldn't want to be better than everybody else; you should want to be better than you ever thought you could be."

"Take me as I am or watch me as I go."

"Worry about loving yourself, instead of loving the idea of other people loving you."

"Don’t lower your standards for anyone or anything. Self respect is everything."