Stephen Spender Quotes

When you do your best you learn to accept yourself

What counts is knowing who you want to be and asking for it.

Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.

As a leader, the most important earthly relationship you can cultivate is your relationship with yourself.

In order to help people, you have to first learn how to help yourself.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

For me, it really is about the self-acceptance... the more time that I spend really accepting and allowing myself to be exactly where I am, the faster it is I move towards what I wanna be doing.

I now know that my dreams and my identity are only mutually exclusive if I don't try.

The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.

Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation to surpass myself unless I first accept myself, and if I accept myself fully in the right way, I will already have surpassed myself.

Love yourself. KNOW thyself. And be mindful of your thoughts.

Probably the most neglected friend you have is you. And yet every man, before he can be a true friend to the world, must first become a friend to himself.

I ain't no perfect man I'm tryna do the best that I can with what it is I have.

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.

Learn to accept your limits and you'll become a happier person.

If you are not at peace with yourself then you cannot spread peace.

A man who loves himself takes the first step towards real love.

I don't want to be better than you or her or him - I want to be better than I am right now

Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others.

If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

We can drop the fundamental hope that there is a better "me" who one day will emerge. We can't just jump over ourselves as if we were not there.

Our job is to become OK with who we are and what our life has been - and keep enduring.

Today, I will focus on having a good relationship with myself.

I want you to have big dreams, big goals. I want you to strive to achieve them. But I don't want to see you beating yourself up every time you make a mistake.