Top 100 Be Your Own Self Quotes
#1. Failures are not your own self. See to it that you are free from them. Only when you can relinquish them can you really be free and no longer assailed by them.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#2. You are to make your own way prosperous ... Even God cannot do it for you; you will have to do it yourself by doing the right things; taking right decisions, talking right, thinking right, being at the right place with the right-kind of people and by reading the right materials.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#3. Independence has nothing to do with whether or not someone chooses to be single or to be married, to have children or to not have children. Independence by definition is about self-governing. About choosing for yourself. About making your own decisions. All
Krista Ritchie
#4. People will doubt you, but do you doubt your own self? People will insult your integrity, but do you trust yourself? If you are at peace with yourself and with God, you can be at peace with the world.
Nana Awere Damoah
#5. What's important is to be supportive of all who practice. Anyone on any level, even if they don't call it self-discovery, who is seeking to awaken to their own potentials and possibilities, to the inner freedom, deserves your respect and support.
Frederick Lenz
#6. Too much stress cannot be laid ... upon the admonition that we seek so far as possible to live in the lives of other people. By sharing in the misfortunes of others, and rejoicing in their happiness, you add to your own emotional serenity and stability.
Ralph Alfred Habas
#7. Self-love is extremely important. Love yourself enough to be unique; forge your own path. Stand out if you must!
Apryl L Yates
#8. My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
#9. Imagine who you could be, what you could accomplish-if only you could get out of your own way.
Staci Backauskas
#11. Don't always consider all your options. Don't necessarily go for the outcome that seems best every time. Make a mess on occasion. Travel light. Let things wait. Trust your instincts and don't think too long. Relax. Toss a coin. Forgive, but don't forget. To thine own self be true. Living
Brian Christian
#12. The purpose of forgiveness is not to make sure that someone ends up changing into what you expect them to be, as this is dominance. The purpose is actually to make your own life better, more worthy and less stressful. Forgiveness reduces the hold that the wrongdoer has over you and empowers you.
Stephen Richards
#13. For your own self-respect and sanity, your creative freedom, you have to be careful that you don't rely too much on other people's opinions of what you do because it can stunt and inhibit you.
Luke Evans
#14. Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for
Oliver James
#15. Your own self, your personality and existence are reflected within the mind of each of the people whom you meet, ... into a likeness, a caricature of yourself, which still lives on and appears to be, in some way, the truth about you. Even a flattering picture is ... a lie.
Isak Dinesen
#16. To be extremely self-centred, only interested in your own satisfaction, always brings negative consequences in the long run.
Dalai Lama
#17. We are all adaptable to changes and self worth is priceless. adapt yourself to be independent (from people, addictions, etc..) and you'll realize how strong you truly are on your own.
Abraham Ruiz
#18. Karate-do may be referred to as the conflict within yourself, or a life-long marathon which can be won only through self-discipline, hard training, and your own creative efforts.
Shoshin Nagamine
#19. If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren't going to change simply because you want them to.
Oprah Winfrey
#20. Close your eyes and visualize the person you really want to be, who fits your own concepts of self-respect. If you can see the person clearly in the mirror of you mind, you surely will become that person.
Denis Waitley
#21. Associate with noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone.
Rely upon your own energies, and so not wait for, or depend on other people.
Thomas Davidson
#22. Don't try to be happy, just be happy. Because your happiness does not depend on others. Be the reason for your own happiness.
Vishwas Chavan
#23. Love the world. Otherwise, you will be forced to carry the heaviest load: your own bitter self.
Sri Chinmoy
#24. Though it may be right to care more for the benefit of the many than for the indulgence of your own single self, when you consider that the many, and duty to them, only exist to you through your own existence, what can be said?
Thomas Hardy
#25. Know your own Self. Honor your own Self. Find and be who you really are, at the deepest level of your own being. Be present in your own presence. Give yourself the gift of your own Self.
Nirmalananda
#26. Was sad to think how quickly things became lost. It was no wonder things were the way they were. Memories, people, your own self. You thought you'd always have them, that you'd be able to draw on them in times of need, but they slipped away like the days, gone before you knew it.
Edward W. Robertson
#28. I feel blessed because not only my character is, but I, myself, can be a role model for people to show that is okay to be your own unique self.
Atticus Shaffer
#29. Be sure to find a way every day to rock your own world and to pat yourself on the back, the front, or whatever distance you can reach. In all probability 'nobody does it better' and self-appreciation is a serious key to self-success. Kathy Golden
Kathy Golden
#30. Why is it always the self-righteous pricks who turn out to be complete perverts? You know it gives the rest of us a bad name. Own your perversion, dude.
Lexi Blake
#31. NEVER FORGET THAT YOU ARE A WOMAN, AND THE GREATEST POWERS YOU CAN EMPLOY AS A WITCH ARE TOTALLY DEPENDENT UPON YOUR OWN SELF-REALIZATION THAT IN BEING A WOMAN YOU ARE DIFFERENT FROM A MAN AND THAT VERY DIFFERENCE MUST BE EXPLOITED!
Anton Szandor LaVey
#32. Continuing to play the victim is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Blaming others for your station in life will indeed make you a victim but the perpetrator will be your own self, not life or those around you.
Bobby Darnell
#33. Talk to yourself the way you'd talk to someone you love. Shush your inner bully. Be your own bestie.
Karen Salmansohn
#34. Do not wait for vulnerability to be thrust upon you by your company or the marketplace. That is when you lost control of your own destiny. Choose to disrupt yourself. Seek vulnerability on your terms, no one else's.
Bill Jensen
#35. You don't have to be like anyone else. You just need to learn more about your own creative self and start blooming.
Deborah Day
#36. There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Aldous Huxley
#37. You are priceless - fearfully and wonderfully made. God shaped and modeled you in your mother's womb. God created you in his own image. You were created, redeemed, and are deeply loved and valued by God. Therefore, the man who wants to be involved with you should have to count the cost.
Michelle McKinney Hammond
#38. Your self is yours to integrate. To integrate your self you need to be, in the midst of your experience, a little bit like your own being.
John De Ruiter
#39. Let me offer this apology. Please excuse this self-indulgent preface. I know what I am doing. I am presenting a series of reasons as to why you should lower your expectations, so that you can be blown away by my sneaky insights about life and work. I am a grown woman. I know my own tricks!
Amy Poehler
#40. I've said it before, and by gosh, I'll say it again - don't be afraid to toot your own horn.
Emlyn Chand
#41. Be in your own skin, as an act of self-loving.
H. Raven Rose
#42. It was psychobabbler Abraham Maslow who wrote of the phenomena of self-actualization. What Maslow failed to grasp is that reaching true self-actualization can only be ultimately achieved when you have your own brand of ammunition.
Ted Nugent
#43. If you are stealing people's thunder just by being around and standing there; you really can't expect people to like you. People want their own thunder to be heard loud and wide, not yours! Swans should never despair over ducks not liking them.
C. JoyBell C.
#44. You need to be your own cheer squad not your own worst enemy.
Miya Yamanouchi
#45. Meet you own self. Be with your own self, listen to it, obey it, cherish it, keep it in mind ceaselessly. You need no other guide.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#46. Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will
Jack Welch
#47. Your success can't be measured by anyone else. You have to set your own goals and do what gives you a sense of fulfillment.
Rhondra O. Willis
#48. We hope to help you discover Your Self; inspire you to live more passionate and sensitive life; helping you listen to your Soul, finding your-own space in this matrix of life, making a genuine contribution to humanity.
Natasa Nuit Pantovic
#49. If nothing else in this long and short life, let me be true to my conscience, to the dignity of my own heart. Let me act in a way that says, I have honored my spirit as truly as I have honored others'. Let me stand tall and rooted as a mountain in the face of a quaking world.
Jennifer DeLucy
#50. Self-love isn't always so poetic; sometimes it's a nice big triple back flip kick in the ass. You've got to call yourself on your own nonsense; on the incredibly efficient way you can be self-destructive.
Steve Maraboli
#52. It can be hard to hold onto your vision because other people will want you to be like they are. But your life has a course of its own, and only you can walk it.
Eleanor Brownn
#53. Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.
E.L. Konigsburg
#54. In England it is bad manners to be clever, to assert something confidently. It may be your own personal view that two and two make four, but you must not state it in a self-assured way, because this is a democratic country and others may be of a different opinion.
George Mikes
#55. The 'coming of the Self' is an apocalypse for the ego, the 'you' that wants to hang along for the ride. It may be that the only way to survive the Apocalypse is to undergo it, first, within your own being.
Daniel Pinchbeck
#57. When you ask for assistance from your guides and the Masters of Light
Know that they already help you as much as they can.
It is you who must come to meet them halfway.
Do not ask them as if they had power to change your life.
They only can guide you to be your own best guide.
Raphael Zernoff
#58. It's important to recognize your own self-destructive behavior and be honest about it. You're only hurting yourself or losing out on your truth and happiness. I'm not afraid to face my own personal stuff. It's so important to dig it up and figure it out and move on.
Christina Aguilera
#59. Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to meet deadlines, not to be organized, is at heart a sign of your own insecurity and at worst the sign of an amateur.
Harold Prince
#60. Inner resilience and the ability to bounce back are personal qualities ... Align yourself with someone who has this kind of resilience so that your own can be strengthened. Find another oak to weather the storm with you. Anyone who is in touch with his or her core self will always respond.
Deepak Chopra
#61. It occurred to me then that you is everything you are in this life at every moment. And that includes loving somebody. If you can't be your own self, how can you love somebody? How can you be free? That pressed on my heart like a vise right then. Just mashed me down.
James McBride
#62. It's time for you to be the hero of your own journey.
Bill Jensen
#63. Driving in someone elses lane is easy, but remaining in your own seems to be the most challenging self discipline. No matter how big the highway, imagine yours is a singular road traveled in one direction - you're own.
T.F. Hodge
#64. To be unique calls for being unique in such a way that your uniqueness doesn't make others appear inferior, and a uniqueness that doesn't crave for anything apart from your own thing.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#65. Mourning can be very selfish. When someone you love has died, you tend to recall best those few moments and incidents that helped clarify your sense, not of the person who has died, but of your own self.
Russell Banks
#66. Normality may lie in being a selectively deaf self-righteous victim of your own cognitive dissonance...but then again...who wants to be an open minded but self-doubting fence-sitter paralyzed by internal conflict? life eh?
Tweedy Peanut
#67. Blame doesn't empower you. It keeps you stuck in a place you don't want to be because you don't want to make the temporary, but painful decision, to be responsible for the outcome of your own life's happiness.
Shannon L. Alder
#68. Choose your thoughts and beliefs wisely.
Be your own best friend, and not your enemy.
Maddy Malhotra
#69. If you expect the battle to be insurmountable,
you've met the enemy.
It's you.
Khang Kijarro Nguyen
#70. To really evolve as awareness, be just like your own being in a self like yours and on a planet like this one.
John De Ruiter
#71. Don't let others box you into their idea of what they think you should be. A confined identity is a miserable way to exist. Be you and live free. Trust that in living true to yourself, you will attract people that support and love you, just as you are.
Jaeda DeWalt
#73. If you mess something up, remember who got you there. Don't be pointing fingers, even if finger-pointing is called for. Only one you got to blame is your own self.
Bernie Mac
#74. Power is the ability to control people or things. So, unless you learn to control your own self first, how would you be able to influence anybody else? Now, doesn't that apply to all of us?
Pulkit Patel
#75. Keep from prying into other people's affairs, for such prying gives occasion for slander, judgment, and other grievous sins. Why do you need to be concerned about others? Know and examine your own self.
Tikhon Of Zadonsk
#77. The reflection that you will find in the other of your own self may be ugly - that is the anxiety; avoid the mirror! But by avoiding the mirror you are not going to become beautiful. By avoiding the situation you are not going to grow, either. The challenge has to be taken.
Osho
#78. If life is a stage and you are your own agent, then don't hesitate to play the character you wish to play.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#79. Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#80. Your own thoughts can be your worst enemy!
Tae Yun Kim
#81. When you swim, be a part of the sea; when you walk, be a part of the road! Integrate with the universe! See it not as a distinct entity, but as your own continuation, as your own self!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#82. Take responsibility for your own happiness, do not expect people or things to bring you happiness, or you could be disappointed.
Rodolfo Costa
#83. A true man will treat a woman how she treats herself, you can't expect to be a queen when your disrespecting your own crown.
Nikki Rowe
#84. You can have all visits back home be fond experiences, if you get a firm handle on your own struggle for independence from your parents. And if you model self-pride and self-worth for your children, they will in turn leave the nest with an absence of stress and turmoil for all concerned.
Wayne W. Dyer
#85. You have to be your own person. You can't let people's opinions determine how you think about yourself. There's a difference between identity and self-identity.
Amy Tan
#86. There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self. - ALDOUS HUXLEY
Wayne W. Dyer
#87. My uncomfortable duty as a Christian is to confess the truth, so lethal to our self-centered human nature: 'Jesus, who suffered your sin unto his own death, calls you likewise to forgive, so that God's purposes may be accomplished in both you and your offender.
Gordon Dalbey
#88. You cannot be with someone just because you don't want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.
Melissa De La Cruz
#89. Excessive self-criticism is a bad habit and extraordinarily self-destructive. Don't be your own worst enemy!
Bryant McGill
#90. You're impossible. Stop worrying about what other women do. Be your own extraordinary self.
Deborah Harkness
#91. There is great change to be experienced once you learn the power of letting go. Stop allowing anyone or anything to control, limit, repress, or discourage you from being your true self! Today is YOURS to shape - own it - break free from people and things that poison or dilute your spirit.
Steve Maraboli
#92. Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#93. Those who say life is knocking them down and giving them a tough time are usually the first to beat themselves up. Be on your own side.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#94. Let your vision be world embracing rather than confined to your own self.
Baha'u'llah
#95. If your parents are billionaires, that might actually be an obstacle to your own happiness and self-development. If you go to Oxford or Harvard, that might actually thwart your desire to graduate with a science or math degree.
Malcolm Gladwell
#96. Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self ... When acting, you're someone else.
Sabrina Carpenter
#97. One possible sign of low self-esteem is suppressing parts of yourself so you can fill someone else's expectations of what you should be. You try to fill someone else's (or your own) prescription of perfection, instead of being yourself and embracing your originality.
Robin Meade
#98. You can't expect the level of excitement of your audience to be greater than your own.
Richie Norton
#99. Learn to be brave and adventurous because you'll never discover your place in the world, if you're too afraid to leave your own backyard.
Nina Guilbeau
#100. I have - often say to people that you really don't get to decide your own legacy. I mean, what you do is, you try to be your own authentic self. And then people decide how they're going to interpret that and what it means to them.
Anita Hill
