Quotes for Self Worth

I'm exceedingly tired tonight, and taking the easy way by posting this colleciton of quotes on self worth. Hopefully you'll find something interesting, illuminating, comforting, or just plain good. I'd love to hear what your favorites are. Enjoy!

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When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?

~Epictetus

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

~Buddha

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Man must choose daily whether to self-destruct or to self-exalt
and whether to destruct or to exalt the God within.

~Elizabeth Clare Prophet

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We do not yet possess ourselves,
and we know at the same time that we are much more.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The only sin is limitation.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We are wiser than we know.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Anyone who has never made a mistake
has never tried anything new.

~Albert Einstein

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Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

~Louisa May Alcott

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If I am not for myself,
who will be?

~Pirke Avoth

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The tragedy is that so many people look for self-confidence and self-respect everywhere except within themselves, and so they fail in their search.

~Dr Nathaniel Branden

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Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?

~Fanny Brice

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Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

~Les Brown

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It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

~Sally Field

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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 Fienstein

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The way you treat yourself
sets the standard for others.

~Dr Sonya Friedman

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In my day, we didn't have self-esteem,
we had self-respect,
and no more of it than we had earned.

~Jane Haddam

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It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.

~Sidney J. Harris

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Every individual has a place to fill in the world,
and is important, in some respect,
whether he chooses to be so or not.

~Nathaniel Hawthorne

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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving,
and that's your own self.

~Aldous Leonard Huxley

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Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

~Dr. Samuel Johnson

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Accept everything about yourself,
I mean everything.
You are you and that is the beginning and the end,
no apologies, no regrets.

~Clark Moustakas

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At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvellously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche