Self Quotes - Page 14

All the discontented people I know are trying to be something they are not to do something they cannot do.

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

Best be yourself imperial plain and true!

Elizabeth Barrett-Browning

She soothed and solaced and celebrated destroying her gift by maiming it to suit her hearers.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

Erasmus

You are unique and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost.

The thing that makes you exceptional if you are at all is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

Lorraine Hansbury

Everybody is talented original and has something important to say.

Cherish forever what makes you unique 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes!

I didn't belong as a kid and that always bothered me. If only I'd known that one day my differentness would be an asset then my early life would have been much easier.

Genius is expansive irresistible and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you no cords can confine it.

Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time you are incomparable.

Genius is the talent for seeing things straight. It is seeing things in a straight line without any bend or break or aberration of sight seeing them as they are without any warping of vision. Flawless mental sight! That is genius.

Children see things very well sometimes-and idealists even better.

Lorraine Hansbury

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

The person who can combine frames of reference and draw connections between ostensibly unrelated points of view is likely to be the one who makes the creative breakthrough.

Denise Shekerjian

Art is the signature of civilizations.

Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do-can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops or we can make music.

If God had wanted me otherwise He would have created me otherwise.

Johann von Goethe

Love your self's self where it lives.

I am what I am so take me as I am!

Johann von Goethe

Who I am is the best I can be.

If school results were the key to power girls would be running the world.

If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me I've got to get out.

No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within.

Eleanor Roosevelt

To make the choice for independent survival the great man's wife has to become convinced of her own intrinsic worth.

Joanna T. Steichen

I care not what others think of what I do but I care very much about what I think of what I do. That is character!

Theodore Roosevelt

I am somebody. I am me. I like being me. And I need nobody to make me somebody.

Life I fancy would very often be insupportable but for the luxury of self-compassion.

George R. Gissing

Of all afflictions the worst is self-contempt.

Berthold Auerbach

If you must love your neighbor as yourself it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.

Nicolas de Chamfort

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

Ellen Sue Stern

I... know what I do and am unmoved by men's blame or their praise either.

Robert Browning

My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling.

Margaret Anderson

The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information-compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac.

The mind's cross-indexing puts the best librarian to shame.

There is no balking genius. Only death can silence it or hinder.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing.

Louise Bourgeois

True genius doesn't fulfill expectations it shatters them.

Next to genius is the power of feeling where true genius lies.

Sarah Josepha Hale

If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchant-ments of later years the sterile preoccupation with things that are artificial the alienation from the sources of our strength.

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.

He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping.

Oliver Goldsmith

From self alone expect applause.

Marion L. Burton

Confronted by an absolutely infuriating review it is sometimes helpful for the victim to do a little personal research on the critic. Is there any truth to the rumor that he had no formal education beyond the age of eleven? In any event is he able to construct a simple English sentence? Do his participles dangle? When moved to lyricism does he write "I had a fun time"? Was he ever arrested for burglary? I don't know that you will prove anything this way but it is perfectly harmless and quite soothing.

Jean Kerr

You can enjoy encouragement coming from outside but you cannot need for it to come from outside.

Vladimir Zworykin

Next to God we are indebted to women first for life itself and then for making it worth living.

Mary McLeod Bethune

I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.

The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs but our mothers were Nightingales.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Bernard M. Baruch

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.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

Tallulah Bankhead

No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.

Wendy Wasserstein

I was always willing to take a great deal of the burden of getting along in life on my own shoulders but I wasn't willing to give myself a pat on the back. I was always looking to somebody else to give me that. ... That was all wrong.

Blessed is he who expects no gratitude for he shall not be disappointed.

William Bennett

When you know you are doing your very best within the circumstances of your existence applaud yourself!

To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections.

I've learned to take time for myself and to treat myself with a great deal of love and respect 'cause I like me.... I think I'm kind of cool.

Whoopi Goldberg

Spirituality is ... the awareness that survival is the savage fight between you and yourself.

Anonymous

I am the only real truth I know.

Jean Rhys

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