Self Quotes - Page 6

• The ultimate is not to win, but to reach within the depths of your capabilities and to compete against yourself to the greatest extent possible. When you do that, you have dignity. You have the pride. You can walk about with character and pride no matter in what place you happen to finish.

  Billy Mills

  Character, Pride, Winning

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• Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Success, Perseverance

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 11, 2014

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• If you don't like yourself, you're going to have a really hard time getting along with anyone else.

  Joyce Meyer

  Relationship, Self Esteem, Hard Times

  Twitter post from Aug 22, 2012

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• Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

  Douglas Coupland

  Life, Lonely, Loneliness

  Douglas Coupland (1993). “Shampoo Planet”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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• The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will

  Robin Hobb

  Men, Human Nature, Brag

  Robin Hobb (2002). “Royal Assassin: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.427, Spectra

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• It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Motivational, Birthday

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You cannot wait for someone to save you, to help you, to complete you. No one can complete you. You complete yourself.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Waiting, Helping

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• The most important thing I learned [from running] is that there is only one runner in this race, and that is me.

  George A. Sheehan

  Sports, Running, Race

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• When you center life around yourself, not only do you miss out on God's best, but you rob other people of the joy and blessings that God wants to give them through you.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Life, God

  Joel Osteen (2015). “Daily Readings from You Can, You Will: 90 Devotions to Becoming a Winner”, p.161, Hachette UK

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• No one is any more or any less important than you are.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Positive, Meaningful

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from May 19, 2011

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• Humility does not mean to think yourself less, but to less think of yourself.

  Bhakti Tirtha Swami

  Humble, Mean, Humility

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• I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.442, Courier Corporation

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• Measure yourself by your best moments, not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression.

  Robert A. Johnson

  Inspirational, Depression, Self Esteem

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• "Getting away from it all," many people want that, and of course ultimately the only way to get away from it all is to go within, now.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Escaping, People, Meditation

  FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Jul 14, 2011

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• With greater confidence in yourself and your abilities, you will set bigger goals, make bigger plans and commit yourself to achieving objectives that today you only dream about.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Confidence, Dream

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Oct 07, 2014

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• The more I run, the more I want to run, and the more I live a life conditioned and influenced and fashioned by my running. And the more I run, the more certain I am that I am heading for my real goal: to become the person I am.

  George A. Sheehan

  Sports, Running, Real

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• There is actually only one thing you can dedicate to God, and that is your right to yourself. If you will give God your right to yourself, He will make a holy experiment out of you - and His experiments always succeed.

  Oswald Chambers

  Inspirational, God, Christian

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.58, Discovery House

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• You can't just be you. You have to double yourself. You have to read books on subjects you know nothing about. You have to travel to places you never thought of traveling. You have to meet every kind of person and endlessly stretch what you know.

  Mary Wells Lawrence

  Motivational, Being Yourself, Travel

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• If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Success, Sports, Perseverance

  FaceBook post by SUGAR RAY LEONARD from Jul 19, 2013

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• One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.

  Billy Collins

  Differences, Poetry, Being Ignored

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• Business is always a struggle. There are always obstacles and competitors. There is never an open road, except the wide road that leads to failure. Every great success has always been achieved by fight. Every winner has scars.The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will-power to develop themselves. So choose to be among the few today.

  Chris Kirubi

  Moving On, Success, Perseverance

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• If you truly want to become a better you, it is imperative that you learn to feel good about yourself.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Love Yourself, Learning

  Joel Osteen (2012). “It's Your Time and Become a Better You Boxed Set”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• He who desires anything but God deceives himself, and he who loves anything but God errs miserably.

  Philip Neri

  Love, God, Christian

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• When you release the wrongdoer from the wrong, you cut a malignant tumor out of your inner life. You set a prisoner free, but you discover that the real prisoner was yourself.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Life, Freedom, Real

  "Forgiveness: You Can’t Have It Both Ways" by Maria Mayo, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2012.

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• So many people seem to spend their lives trying to appear normal, predictable and consistent to themselves and those that surround them. They just end up bored with themselves, bereft of any depth of inner resources, suffocated by the inhibitions that defend their own monolithic identities.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Life, People, Bored

  "Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick". Book by Peter J. Carroll, 1995.

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