Best Self Quotes - Page 2

• Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

  Marianne Williamson

  Life, Confidence, Fear

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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• If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Love, Life, Self Esteem

  Barbara De Angelis (2009). “Real Moments for Lovers: The Enlightened Guide for Discovering Total Passion and True Intimacy”, p.20, Dell

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• Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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• Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim.

  Tim Field

  Meaningful, Being Yourself, Bullying

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  One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

  Arthur Ashe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

  Paul Tillich

  Positive, Confidence, Courage

  Paul Tillich, F. Forrester Church (1999). “The Essential Tillich”, p.174, University of Chicago Press

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• Practice sharing the fullness of your being, your best self, your enthusiasm, your vitality, your spirit, your trust, your openness, above all, your presence. Share it with yourself, with your family, with the world.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Life, Self, Practice

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• You will be your best self when you take time to understand what you really need, feel and want.

  Deborah Day

  Self Esteem, Needs, Want

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• Your ultimate goal in life is to become your best self.  Your immediate goal is to get on the path that will lead you there.

  David Viscott

  Self, Goal, Path

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• It's not enough to just be yourself. You must be your best self

  Neil Strauss

  Being Yourself, Just Be Yourself, Enough

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• Believe in yourself, work hard, work smart and passionately present your best self to the world.

  Hill Harper

  Smart, Believe, Hard Work

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• Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Being Yourself, Self, Imitator

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• Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. Stop aspiring to be anyone other than your own best self: for that does fall within your control.

  Epictetus

  Lying, Fall, Self

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• In the search for our best selves, several questions will guide our thinking: Am I what I want to be? Am I closer to the Savior today than I was yesterday? Will I be closer yet tomorrow? Do I have the courage to change for the better?

  Thomas S. Monson

  Thinking, Self, Yesterday

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• We have a revolutionary history to honor and uphold. Which was what Nelson Mandela did. He reminded us of that which we need to be reminded, over and over again, about our own best selves.

  Charlie Pierce

  Self, Honor, Needs

  "Amandla" by Charlie Pierce, www.esquire.com. December 6, 2013.

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• Reading is the gateway to so many things that helps makes it possible for seven billion people to live together on one planet. Literature is the great extra-somatic keeper of our knowledge of what it is to be human. Reading elevates us. We read to be our best selves.

  Nicola Griffith

  Reading, Self, People

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• You have to be true to yourself, but you have to be true to your best self, not to the self that secretly thinks you are better than other people.

  Stephen Gaskin

  Educational, Thinking, Self

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• Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

  Mark Twain

  Single, Loyalty, Self

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• Deep down you know you can be remarkable. You shouldn't settle for anything less than your best self, reaching ever closer to your potential -- whether as a leader or in any other part of your life.

  Kevin Eikenberry

  Self, Leader, Settling

  Kevin Eikenberry (2011). “Remarkable Leadership: Unleashing Your Leadership Potential One Skill at a Time”, p.3, John Wiley & Sons

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• I've come to think that's what heaven is- a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on.

  Christina Baker Kline

  Memories, Thinking, Self

  Christina Baker Kline (2013). “Orphan Train: A Novel”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• The thing that you are too young to understand is that we all hide things. We hide them from our lovers because we wish to present our best selves, but also because if it is real love, we expect our loved one to simply understand it, without needing to ask. In a true partnership, the kind that lasts through the ages, there is an unspoken communion.

  Cassandra Clare

  Real, Self, Wish

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.2023, Simon and Schuster

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• Maybe that's the way to tell the dangerous men from the good ones. A dreamer of the day is dangerous when he believes that others are less: less than their own best selves and certainly less than he is. They exist to follow and flatter him, and to serve his purposes. A true prophet, I suppose, is like a good parent. A true prophet sees others, not himself. He helps them define their own half-formed dreams, and puts himself at their service. He is not diminished as they become more. He offers courage in one hand and generosity in the other.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Dream, Believe, Men

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• [In the moment of reading writer and reader] are both briefly their best selves, or at least better selves. A flawed human being writes something and 60 years later a reader picks up the book and something in them rises to meet it.

  George Saunders

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Single

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• There are these rare moments when musicians together touch something sweeter than they've ever found before in rehearsals or performance, beyond the merely collaborative or technically proficient, when their expression becomes as easy and graceful as friendship or love. This is when they give us a glimpse of what we might be, of our best selves, and of an impossible world in which you give everything to others, but lose nothing of yourself.

  Ian Mcewan

  Self, Expression, Giving

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