Externally, be humble. Internally, be confident.
James Clear
True belief in yourself is the ultimate determining factor if you make it or not.
David Goggins
When you are compassionate toward yourself, you allow yourself to be vulnerable. And that’s incredibly important. Your authentic truth is your magnificence. Your willingness to let the world see you in truth is your greatest contribution.
Gabby Bernstein
Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.
Robert Holden
As you face loss, frustration, hurt, and conflict….have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion.
Jack Kornfield
More helpful than any advice is an unflinching examination of oneself.
James Pierce
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Michel de Montaigne
The most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect, to look at ourselves honestly and gently.
Pema Chödrön
If we saw someone else treating us the way most of us treat ourselves, we might think them despicably cruel.
Alain de Botton
The best gift you can give to others is your presence. The best gift you can give to yourself is perseverance.
Maxime Lagacé
The very things you cannot bring yourself to consider reveal the lies you have let yourself believe.
James Pierce
If you want to be successful in life, respect one rule: never lie to yourself.
Paulo Coelho
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
Thich Nhat Hanh
If you wanna be liked, your only option is to never speak. Otherwise, get used to being hated.
Preethi Kasireddy
Real pleasure comes from overcoming challenges, feeling confidence in your abilities, and experiencing the power this brings.
Robert Greene
He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Work on yourself. Build the confidence and gusto required to rise above your mental baggage.
@DailyZen
The person who deserves your gratitude more than anyone else is you.
Rhonda Byrne
Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
Marcus Aurelius
Who you are is defined by the values you are willing to struggle for.
Mark Manson
By being kind to ourselves, we become kind to others.
Pema Chödrön
If you have earned your self-respect, respect by others is a luxury; if you haven’t, respect by others is a necessity.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Never trade respect for attention.
Mel Robbins
We can discover truth for ourselves only when we do not depend on another; no specialist can give us the right answer.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
If you don’t care to be liked, they can’t touch you.
Naval Ravikant
While we are still alive, we have to discover ourselves, understand ourselves, and express ourselves.
Bruce Lee
Your sense of self-worth comes from you alone — never the opinion of others.
Robert Greene
Ego is false confidence, self-respect is true confidence.
Naval Ravikant
If everybody loves you, something is wrong. Nobody can please everybody.
Paulo Coelho
To express oneself honestly, not lying to oneself; that, my friend, is very hard to do.
Bruce Lee
Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.
Joan Didion
Make it a goal to see the best in everyone and the best will come back to you.
Rhonda Byrne
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao Tzu
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
Bruce Lee
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Marcus Aurelius
As long as I’m so afraid of being alone, I’ll never be real. I’m hiding from myself. Susan Sontag
Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.
Robert Tew
Beware of people making you feel guilty. That is how they control you.
@TheAncientSage
The most important, difficult and rewarding thing to work on is yourself.
Sven Schnieders
Respect yourself and others will respect you.
Confucius
Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage.
Thucydides
If you have truly attained wholeness, everything will flock to you.
Lao Tzu