221 Curated Quotes About Self-Discovery to Ponder and Share (Page 2 of 2)

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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

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The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.

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Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

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The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

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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.

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I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

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You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
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You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud. Do not complain. Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.

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I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

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Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

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If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
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If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.

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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

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Your self-worth has nothing to do with your craft or calling, and everything to do with how you treat yourself.

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You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

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We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.

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Love who you are, embrace who you are. Love yourself. When you love yourself, people can kind of pick up on that: they can see confidence, they can see self-esteem, and naturally, people gravitate towards you.

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Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

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Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

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Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

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Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.

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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

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Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

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Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

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You just have to be yourself and go full with confidence and be courageous.

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When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one.

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Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence. From my earliest recollection, I date the entertainment of a deep conviction that slavery would not always be able to hold me within its foul embrace.

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The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.

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The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

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Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
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Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

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The greatest self is a peaceful smile, that always sees the world smiling back.

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Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

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You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

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To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

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

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If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.

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It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

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How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

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First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others.
