Top 100 Best Self Quotes
#1. I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day.
Tom Hooper
#2. At midlife, you're pregnant with the best self you can be - someone who has learned enough from both successes and failures to add up to a fine human being.
Marianne Williamson
#3. I remember her smile and her laugh when I was my best self and she looked at me like I could do no wrong and was whole. I remember how she looked at me the same way even when I wasn't.
Jennifer Niven
#4. There isn't an end point to excellence where you have it and you can stop. Being your best self means keeping on trying.
Jo Walton
#5. Your gifted purpose here on earth is to live out your days being and bringing your best self...
Bethanee Epifani
#6. Today, I hold firm to my ability to say "no" to everything that doesn't fall under the umbrella of my ultimate gifts. If it doesn't allow me to offer my best self to the world, it's a graceful "no.
Heidi Tankersley
#7. Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one's best self.
Bel Kaufman
#8. I think perhaps a better thing to want is fulfillment. A deeper state, one that comes from within, from being your best self. From living life the way you really wish to live it. Then, happiness emanates from within as a byproduct. Naturally.
Kamal Ravikant
#9. Had our hearts really become so numb that we needed dead bodies in order to feel the beat of compassion in our chests? Who am I if I need to be shocked back into my best self?
Jason Reynolds
#10. Because you aren't just someone I loved back then. You were my best friend, my best self, and I can't imagine giving that up again." He hesitated searching for the right words. "You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same.
Nicholas Sparks
#11. when we choose the roles we want to play we want to portray our best self. PREPARE FOR THE ROLE YOU WANT, NOT THE ROLE YOU HAVE.
Sally Bennett
#12. I guess you understand what I mean, Kitsy.
It's okay to just be your best self though. Change doesn't always mean growth.
Gwendolyn Heasley
#13. If indeed this is the work of God ... then it's a crisis that calls for the church to be its very best self, and not worry about risking itself for the right thing.
Gene Robinson
#14. There is something in these moments of crisis that is really extraordinary about humanity and human beings' resilience and the way in which everyone naturally comes together. I think you see the best in people in those moments for better or for worse and you find your best self.
Carla Gugino
#15. A true friend honors and encourages our best self, and they will work at aaving us from self destruction, even if that means being difficult.
Karuna Cayton
#16. Who would I be without Amy to react to? Because she was right: As a man, I had been my most impressive when I loved her -- and I was my next best self when I hated her.
Gillian Flynn
#17. I don't have the best self esteem; mine wavers month to month, but I know how to pick myself up.
Tyra Banks
#18. When I am wrong, I will learn the lesson and move on to face other challenges. For me, that's what creating your own life is. Doing your best work while being your best self.
Jennifer Lopez
#19. Your ultimate goal in life is to become your best self. Your immediate goal is to get on the path that will lead you there.
David Viscott
#20. I am my best self when I have super-short hair. That's when I feel most like me and most confident.
Halle Berry
#21. I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.
Seth Godin
#22. Deep down you know you can be remarkable. You shouldn't settle for anything less than your best self, reaching ever closer to your potential
whether as a leader or in any other part of your life.
Kevin Eikenberry
#23. I've realized that you can never be your best self without extra bandwidth to think clearly, give to others, and appreciate sunrises and sunsets.
Glynnis MacNicol
#24. When you write you in a way write out of what you think of as your best self, the part of you that is lacking in foibles and weaknesses and egotism and vanities and so on. You're just trying to really say something as truthful as you can out of the best that you have in you.
Salman Rushdie
#25. Because connection with others and our "best self" is the most primal need we have, shame feels absolutely awful.
Christiane Northrup
#27. There is no perfect love. There is only a right kind of love. This kind of love cares for your well-being, gives you the freedom to live your life, and stretches you to become your best self.
Janet Ong Zimmerman
#28. If I want to know my light side, my best self, all I have to do is look in the outer world and look for who I love, who turns me on, who excites me and distinguish the qualities I am seeing in them, and in doing that I will find the best expression of myself.
Debbie Ford
Janet Bray Attwood
#29. Don't waste time worrying about work/life balance, or looking for your best self, sham "secrets" or any other snake oil being pushed by sloppy hippies who have never built a business, let alone a bankroll, or you will wake up 20 years from now poor, pissed off and primed for a midlife crisis.
Ari Gold
#30. That is what you love a friend for: the ability to change your angle of vision, bring back your best self when you feel worst. And speak the truth
but without malice. Loving candour is the secret of friendship.
Erica Jong
#31. Successful people consistently put their best "self" forward.
Lorii Myers
#32. An important part of becoming your best self is being very careful about your self-talk and self-stories.
Bryant McGill
#33. Go ahead: Live with abandon. Be outrageous at any age. What are you saving your best self for?
Oprah Winfrey
#34. Acceptance is different than apathy. It is important to strive to be your best self, your healthiest, most productive, joyful self. But that is going to be a different answer to everyone.
Teri Hatcher
#35. You will be your best self when you take time to understand what you really need, feel and want.
Deborah Day
#36. I think the overriding message would be that love is serious business. True, down-to-the-crap love is not for the shallow or faint of heart. People are messy. Marriage is messy. You have to bring your best self to the game despite your limitations.
Ka Hancock
#37. Sometimes people ask what it was like when I got to meet Mick Jagger, and I must admit that you just try and chill out and be your best self around anyone that you meet.
Meshell Ndegeocello
#38. Down on the ground, we seem to do anything but make lengthy, robust monologues. We can communicate in an instant almost anywhere. Gone is the slow old letter - itself a monologue, a sort of considered performance of best self - and in its place is the e-mail, the text, the SMS, the tweet.
Samantha Harvey
#39. When I lead essay workshops, I ask students to come up with at least five topics, which they'll narrow down to one. The winning idea should be the story the student is most excited to tell because it honestly reflects his or her best self.
Kate Klise
#40. In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#41. Sex is my practice. It's where I always strive to be my best self. I try to be as honest as possible, as present as possible, as centered as possible, as kind as possible, as generous as possible without being a doormat.
Nina Hartley
#42. It's not enough to just be yourself. You must be your best self
Neil Strauss
#43. Everything that scares you is an opportunity to know your best self better.
Robin Sharma
#44. We're all sick of holy wars and bloodshed because religion is supposed to give us life and a better life and is supposed to bring out our best self. When it results in mass destruction and hatred and anxiety, it's the antithesis I think of what religion was designed to do.
Vera Farmiga
#45. When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
Salman Rushdie
#47. I think 60 is when many people hit their prime. We elect many of our presidents in their 60s. At that age, people are full of ideas and their best self. I wanted to dig into my potential and bring out my best self.
Diana Nyad
#48. A true friend holds you accountable to your best self.
Mike Glenn
#49. This is not a time for fear, brethren, but rather a time for faith - a time for each of us who holds the priesthood to be his best self.
Thomas S. Monson
#50. All you can do is be your best self. I've always felt that I had to be that much more aware of how I present myself. I'm representing more than just me. I think every person should think that way.
Misty Copeland
#51. Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.
Mark Twain
#52. Your actions are viewed by observers through prisms shaped by their own interpretations, and sometimes misinterpretations. All you can do is strive to be your best self. Let the chips fall where they may.
Cathryn Louis
#53. With honesty and a little digging, we have the opportunity to identify our gifts and harness them in the service of our best self - our own unique noble purpose.
Tom Hayes
#54. Joan was the beaming double of my old best self, specially designed to follow
and torment me.
Sylvia Plath
#55. All you can do is be your best self. I'm representing more than just me. I think everyone should be like that.
Misty Copeland
#56. Don't be afraid of being unique. It's like being afraid of your best self.
Donald Trump
#57. Success is about being your best self, not about being better than others; failure is an opportunity, not a condemnation; effort is the key to success.
Carol S. Dweck
#58. Often I choose characters who express not my best self, but the sides of me I haven't developed or haven't expressed.
Kate Christensen
#59. Anyone watching me might have thought I was consulting a reference book, I turned the pages so fast. And I suppose I was, in my mindless way, looking for something, a version of myself, a heroine I could slip inside as one might a pair of favorite shoes ... For it was my best self I wanted ...
Ian McEwan
#60. You have to be true to yourself, but you have to be true to your best self, not to the self that secretly thinks you are better than other people.
Stephen Gaskin
#61. Certainly I'm still mining my experiences as a journalist. I think it's no coincidence that all three of my novels basically are about how people act in a time of catastrophe. Do they go to their best self or their worst self?
Geraldine Brooks
#62. Wherever I go, people are so kind and so lovely and so warm and show their best self. So I feel very lucky.
Rachel Platten
#63. What I need in order to stay creative and centered is a certain amount of distance from the maddening crowd. You cease to be your best self if you're running too fast.
James Redfield
#65. I came to the realization that I needed to become my best self in order to attract the kind of guy I would want to marry. If I wanted someone truly fabulous, I had better become truly fabulous first.
Ian Kerner
#66. Dare to be what your best self knows you ought to be; dare to be a bigger human being than you have ever been.
Norman Vincent Peale
#67. Firms that draw commitment from customers and staff give them a way to sign up for something that can allow them to be their best self.
John Jantsch
#68. For me, makeup is about being your best self. If I wake up in a foul mood and have to deal with temper tantrums and an exploding diaper
I know taking 10 minutes to get my game face on will reset my stress levels. It's a chance to check in and remind myself
you got this.
Jessica Alba
#69. Being with him made me want to make my own dreams, discover my own path. I was my best self when I was with him.
Heather Anastasiu
#71. Charm might be described as enlightened self-interest, a development of one's best self ... In the simplest possible terms, I think genuine charm is an unmotivated interest in others.
Arlene Francis
#72. Sitting in an armchair under yellow lamplight in front of a black window in an apartment whose only other light was the milky rainbow of the Wurlitzer, Richard was like a giant, welcoming ear. Or a reflecting device, beaming her best self back at her.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#73. As painful as some of the past year's changes have been, they will ultimately lead to a better place. The adversity you come across in life may cause pain, but with pain comes growth and the opportunity to rise to the occasion as your strongest, best self.
Jennifer Lopez
#75. Despite the obvious fault in the universe, it cannot be used as an excuse for not trying to be your best self. Instead, use unfairness as a starting point to be sure that your actions are the best you can muster, and find peace in navigating your time here with grace and humor whenever possible.
Valerie Plame
#76. What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.
George Eliot
#77. She was. She was imperfect. She made mistakes. But she was her best self more often than it's reasonable for any human to be.
Cheryl Strayed
#78. It was easy to love your idea of someone - to fall hard for their very best self. The question was whether, once you had to spend some time living with their worst self, you could bear to be with them anymore.
Ruthie Knox
#79. Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. There is something which you can do better than another. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Do the things at which you are great, not what you were never made for.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#80. The best investment you will ever make is investing in your best self.
Robin S. Sharma
#81. On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.
Gabrielle Zevin
#82. The best self promotion is your next book. And the book after that and after that ...
Bella Andre
#83. Practice sharing the fullness of your being, your best self, your enthusiasm, your vitality, your spirit, your trust, your openness, above all, your presence. Share it with yourself, with your family, with the world.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#84. Believe in yourself, work hard, work smart and passionately present your best self to the world.
Hill Harper
#85. Purpose and passion - purpose is what will guide you to your best self and the passion will keep you there.
Nikki Rowe
#86. When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self.
Ben Okri
#87. The measure of self-motivation in a young person will become the best way to predict upward mobility.
Tyler Cowen
#88. No man who worships education has got the best out of education ... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
G.K. Chesterton
#89. Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge!
William Hague
#90. Success is the accomplishment of any number of possible aims, dreams, aspirations or goals. It's very personal and unique to you. Your greatest desire could be someone else's idea of hell; you might want to be an award-winning chef while your best friend hates cooking.
Nigel Cumberland
#91. All the collaborators of storytelling, in film and television, have to be partly self-centered because they need to do their work the best they can, and that's what makes them really good at what they do, but then they also have to be a part of the socialist society, for the greater good.
Ray McKinnon
#92. 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
#93. For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.
Benjamin Franklin
#94. We have an obligation to ourselves to foster the environment that allows for our self-actualization. Rather than my gifts serving me, I must serve them. I want to be a steward of the best aspects of my character and assist them in their fulfillment through proper discipline and habits.
Chris Matakas
#95. That form of the instinct of self-preservation with which we guard everything that is best in ourselves ...
Marcel Proust
#97. There's no mystery to confidence, it's just about self knowledge. It's savvy to know which of our flaws can be changed, and which ones to accept and let go. Then, asking the best of the good points.
Immodesty Blaize
#99. What would be the best therapy? Punching the evil sod in the knob! [ ... ]
It doesn't undo it though. You'd feel good for a second and then there's just emptiness. It's like bingeing. After the chocolate there's the wrappers.
Rae Earl
#100. You tend to become that, what you want most. Look to the light of God, expect the best and give it your best. Make success happen with devotion and dedication. You can do it.
Mark LaMoure
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