You never find yourself until you face the truth.

- Pearl Bailey

It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

- Sally Kempton

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

- Marianne Williamson

We only feel dehumanized when we get trapped in the derogatory images of other people or thoughts of wrongness about ourselves.

- Marshall Rosenberg

When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.

- Carter G. Woodson

Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.

- Sonya Friedman

Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity.

- Erich Fromm

The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

- Oscar Wilde

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

- Oscar Wilde

The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.

- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Alas, the fearful Unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

- Thomas Carlyle

We are stronger, gentler, more resilient, and more beautiful than any of us imagine.

- Mark Nepo

The greatest single cause of a poor self image is the absence of unconditional love.

- Zig Ziglar

I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.

- Hafiz of Persia



A thoroughly good relationship with ourselves results in being still, which doesn't mean we don't run and jump and dance about. It means there's no compulsiveness. We don't overwork, overeat, oversmoke, overseduce. In short, we begin to stop causing harm.

- Pema Chodron



What we do matters to us. Work may not be the most important thing in our lives or the only thing. We may work because we must, but we still want to love, to feel pride in, to respect ourselves for what we do and to make a difference.

- Sara Ann Friedman



Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.

- G. I. Gurdjieff



People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.

- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross



If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.

- John Steinbeck



They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi



Self-respect knows no considerations.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi



It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.

- George Eliot



The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

- Carl Rogers



I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

- Maya Angelou



There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

- Aldous Huxley



I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

- Eleanor Roosevelt



The nice thing about self-love is that it's hardly ever unrequited.

- Solomon Short



Whatever you have forgotten, you can remember. Whatever you have buried you can unearth. If you are willing to look deep into your own nature, if you are willing to peel away the layers of not-self you have adopted in making your way through the tribulations of life, you will find that your true self is not as far removed as you think.

- Meredith Jordan



If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh



The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.

- Mark Twain



We are all something, but none of us are everything.

- Blaise Pascal



To value his own good opinion, a child has to feel that he is a worthwhile person. He has to have confidence in himself as an individual.

- Sidonie Gruenberg



Fashion is among the last influences under which a human being who respects himself, or who comprehends the great end of life, would desire to be placed.

- William Ellery Channing



If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

- Hermann Hesse



If someone in your life talked to you the way you talk to yourself, you would have left them long ago.

- Carla Gordon



When I go into the garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson



Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves, to like themselves.

- Bonaro W. Overstreet



Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson



Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better?

- Jane Nelson



That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

- William J. H. Boetcker



Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

- Abraham Joshua Heschel



The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will try to be as tolerant of his neighbor's shortcomings as he is of his own.

- Eric Hoffer



Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.

- Joan Didion