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

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"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."

- Lao Tzu

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"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."

- Lao Tzu

Compassion

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves."

- Lao Tzu

Leadership

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves."

- Lao Tzu

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"To lead people, walk beside them."

- Lao Tzu

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"The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others."

- Hasidic Proverb

Self-confidence

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

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"Be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."

- Judy Garland

Self-confidence

"I am a woman with thoughts and questions and sh*t to say. I say if I’m beautiful. I say if I’m strong. You will not determine my story – I will."

- Amy Schumer

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"You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through."

- Rosalynn Carter

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