Thinking Of Yourself Quotes

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Helen Keller

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

"Optimism". Essay by Helen Keller, 1903.

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No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Being Yourself, Lonely, Loneliness

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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Alice Walker

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Bertrand Russell

Confidence, Being Yourself, Fear

Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.554, Routledge

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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

Benjamin Spock

Positive, Family, Trust

The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care ch. 1 (1946)

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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Mark Twain

Inspirational, Motivational, Change

Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.97, Chartwell

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I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

Mahatma Gandhi

Inspirational, Positive, Being Yourself

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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Rudyard Kipling

Life, Bullying, Being Yourself

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If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

George S. Patton

Motivational, Business, Military

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The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Coco Chanel

Strength, Inspiring, Courage

"Believing in Ourselves" by Armand Eisen, (p. 39), 1992.

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Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

Bernard Baruch

Inspirational, Funny, Life

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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Positive, Beauty

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Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Harvey Fierstein

Life, Positive, Meaningful

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Harvey Fierstein

Life, Beautiful, Being Yourself

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

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Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

John F. Kennedy

Inspirational, Being Yourself, Freedom

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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People say that you're going the wrong way when it's simply a way of your own.

Angelina Jolie

Inspirational, Life, Being Yourself

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I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?

Goldie Hawn

Beauty, Confidence, Running

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Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

Audrey Hepburn

Inspirational, Graduation, Bullying

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

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Decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live.

Gianni Versace

Fashion, Being Yourself, Blue Dress

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The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Being Yourself, Lonely, Loneliness

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If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

Mahatma Gandhi

Motivational, Positive, Strength

Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “The Essential Gandhi: His Life, Work, and Ideas : an Anthology”, Vintage

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Man often becomes what he believes himself to be.

Mahatma Gandhi

Strength, Believe, Optimistic

Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.275, Vintage

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I was once afraid of people saying, “Who does she think she is?” Now I have the courage to stand and say, “This is who I am.

Oprah Winfrey

Inspirational, Being Yourself, Self Esteem

Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.166, Macmillan

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