Believe in yourself. Under-confidence leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy that you are not good enough for your work.

A failure is always in the passenger seat in his or her life.

Modesty isn’t always a virtue; it can be a hindrance; a careful measure of personal pride builds confidence and ensures success.

What defines you isn’t how many times you crash but the number of times you get back.

There’s something AMAZING about you. You owe it to yourself to fulfill your destiny. You were put on earth for a reason. Don’t betray yourself because of other people opinions of who you should be....

I don’t see myself very clearly.Then look at the people who love you…Look into their eyes and see what they’re seeing; that’s all you need to know yourself.

The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.

Well it’s good to have a car like that, once in a while somebody’ll say, ‘why don’t you come over for dinner?’ and I can just say, ‘Car won’t make it.’ I don’t have to...

When we repay unkindness with unkindness, we perpetuate the cycle of negativity within which our world is embroiled. We have the right and responsibility to choose differently.

Be real. Embrace that you have weakness. Because everyone does. Embrace that your body is not perfect. Because nobody’s is. Embrace that you have things you can’t control. We all have a list of them.

One day I realized, I am what I’m looking for. The love I’ve been searching the world for. When I devoutly love myself it’s fulfilling, and it attracts others. They fight to love me twice...

The best way to reach your destination is to just keep going until you get there.

Looking outside of yourself for love and acceptance, leaves your happiness in the hands of others.

What a wonderful word, future. Of all the abstractions we can articulate to ourselves, of all the concepts we have that other animals do not, how extraordinary the ability to consider a time that’s never...

In the race of life, what matters is to complete your race.

Self love, self respect.Love yourself,love your uniqueness. You are the only person can be true to yourself.

The challenge for people today–and it is not and easy one–is to maintain high personal standards even while feeling that one is living in a moral sewer.

God within you is an inner light for self-realisation.

If you have realistic ideals and can generally live up to them, your self-esteem will not be threatened. If your ideals are exaggerated and you cannot reach them, your good feelings from successes may be...

When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable.

Starting over can be the scariest thing in the entire world, whether it’s leaving a lover, a school, a team, a friend or anything else that feels like a core part of our identity but...

This pre-eminence is something [men] have unjustly arrogated to themselves. And when it’s said that women must be subject to men, the phrase should be understood in the same sense as when we say we...

Most people think that once they lose the weight or make more money they will finally feel good about them themselves, but they are usually disappointed when they get there to find they don’t feel...

Aging in women is ‘unbeautiful’ since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken.

There is no doubt a new dress is a help under all circumstances.

I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely...

By looking at the Bible as if it were fundamentally about us, we totally miss the Point–like the two on the road to Emmaus. As Luke 24 shows, it’s possible to read the Bible, study...

I’m ALL about the Alternative.

Stop trying to ‘fix’ yourself; you’re NOT broken! You are perfectly imperfect and powerful beyond measure.

As you become more aligned with the truth of who you are, the question of liking yourself goes away. It is a natural state of being.

In spite of hopes to the contrary, pornography and mass culture are working to collapse sexuality with rape, reinforcing the patterns of male dominance and female submission so that many young people believe this is...

You are not what others think you are. You are what God knows you are.

life sentence” of someone with bipolar disorder. The longer they hang onto a lost cause the more unstable they look to everyone else. They contradict their own belief systems and statements, by circling the drain...

Why do women say “I’m sorry” so much? One of my favorite self-love sermons is this: Resist saying ‘I’m sorry’ so often. You are not “sorry.” You are magnificent beyond measure, perfect in your imperfections,...

The best thing to learn from any government is that it does not get affacted by what other people talk or think about it.

I’ve always been just me, but I was the last to know that it was all right.

I have no nostalgia for the patriarchy, please believe me. But what I have come to realize is that, when that patriarchic system was (rightfully) dismantled, it was not necessarily replaced by another form of...

There are some people who through hurts do not feel they are good enough and this is a destroyer of their self-images. As a true believer of your dream, you need to see yourself as...

When this low self-worth is hidden, one can understand why the person becomes hypersensitive to the opinions of others and has a great deal of difficulty accepting criticism no matter how warranted or gently said.

The crickets sounded like maybe in the trees. They were pretty loud to be so unsure of themselves.

If the map doesn’t agree with the ground the map is wrong

We are all valuable. Humanity needs our individual services.

You all have your own distinct personal backgrounds. Of course some of you come from rich families, some from poor families. But circumstances beyond your control like that shouldn’t determine who you are. You must...

Genuine self esteem – please understand this – genuine self esteem is not competitive or comparative. Genuine self esteem isn’t expressed by self-glorification at the expense of others, or by trying to make yourself superior...

As I see, 90%+ (and not less than that) of people go about their lives living 90%+ (and not less) of a lie. choose a different way and live the least truth you might be.

Learn to love and value yourself, regardless of the affections of others. Romantic love then becomes a wonderful bonus, rather than a necessity.

Though the funny thing about never being asked for anything is that after a while you start to feel like maybe you don’t have anything worth giving.

For most of us free-thinking, wild hearts, our relationship with God or the Universe will go through peaks and valleys – transforming into new concepts and beliefs, completely disappearing, at times, only then to instantly...

Immense self-made wealth is the evidence of a grandly rich mind

Saying thanks to the world, and acknowledging your own accomplishments, is a great way to feel good and stay positive.