I don't expect everybody to like me. If you try to please everybody, by changing your position and your personality, every time you do that you lose a little bit of yourself.
In the end they'll judge me anyway, so whatever.
When you acquire enough inner peace and feel really positive about yourself, it's almost impossible for you to be controlled and manipulated by anybody else.
Those who seek to please everybody please nobody.
You, being yourself, help others be themselves. Because you recognize your own uniqueness you will not need to dominate others, nor cringe before them.
Perhaps the greatest mistake we can make, which causes loss of self-respect, is making the opinions of others more important than our own opinion of ourselves. You'll find no shortage of opinions directed at you. If you allow them to undermine your self-respect, you're seeking the respect of others over your own, and you're abdicating yourself.
As long as you want to please everyone, you won't please anyone.
Don't wait to be picked. Pick yourself.
Never be bullied into silence.
Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.
Learn to live in this world with self-respect.
I have a very good relationship with myself. My favourite quote is, "What you think about me is none of my business."
It is a radical act to believe in and like yourself.
I'm really stubborn, and I'm okay with that.
I've put up with too much, too long, and now I'm just too intelligent, too powerful, too beautiful, too sure of who I am finally to deserve anything less.
I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.
Sometimes it seems like this is the choice - either kick ass or kiss ass.
Be in control. Know who you are. And don't try to be different just to be different.
I bully myself cause I make me do what I put my mind to.
When words & manners leave you no space for yourself make very personal very clear & your obstructions will join you or disappear.
I don't want to be a victim. I don't want to disappear into the darkness.
It's not that I didn't love myself before. Sometimes we don't realize that we are compromising ourselves. To understand that a person is not good for you, or that that person is not treating you in the right way, or that he is not doing the right thing for himself - if I stay, then I am not doing the right thing for me. I love myself enough to walk away from that now.
If you don't toot your own horn, someone else will use it as a spittoon.
So long as a man is faithful to himself, everything is in his favor, government, society, the very sun, moon, and stars.
Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect
