There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.
~ Aldous Huxley
It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself but the most inconvenient one too.
~ Josh Billings
To know oneself one should assert oneself.
~ Albert Camus
Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.
~ Eric Hoffer
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
~ Mencius
Whatever you may be sure of be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people.
~ James Russell Lowell
All life is the struggle the effort to be itself. The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities my capacities.
~ Josi Ortega Y Gasset
My closest relation is myself.
~ Terence
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 Montaigne
You can succeed if nobody else believes it but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself.
~ William J. H. Boetcker
Cautious careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing never can bring about a reform.
~ Susan B. Anthony
Everybody wants to do something to help but nobody wants to be first.
~ Pearl Bailey
It is not easy to be a pioneer-but oh it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment even the worst moment for all the riches in the world.
~ Elizabeth Blackwell
Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you.
~ Stewart E. White
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.
~ Kay Boyle
Let us not forget that among [women's] rights is the right to speak freely.
~ Hillary Rodham Clinton
Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may he will only feel satisfaction as he is satisfied in himself.
~ William Hazlitt
I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.
~ Beverly Sills
The widening of woman's sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it and if the world scoff let it scoff-if it sneer let it sneer.
~ Lucy Stone
When people say: she's got everything I've only one answer: I haven't had tomorrow.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
Cuteness in children is totally an adult perspective. The children themselves are unaware that the quality exists let alone its desirability until the reactions of grown-ups inform them.
~ Leontine Young
It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of but my own.
~ Noël Coward
Do not let your peace depend on the hearts of men whatever they say about you good or bad you are not because of it another man for as you are you are.
~ Thomas À Kempis
In my business you measure your respect by the enemies you make.
~ Theo E. Colborn
Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
~ Emily Dickinson
We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.
~ Ethel Barrett
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
~ Mark Twain
I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken made verbal and shared even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
~ Audre Lorde
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves to like themselves.
~ Bonaro Overstreet
I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.
~ Dwight L. Moody
