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May you find great value in these Self Importance quotes and sayings.
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect
and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance,
as is every other life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Related topics: Inspirational Life Human-Nature Psychology Wisdom Values Spiritual Self Self-Esteem Self-Confidence
The good news is that you aren't
as important as you thought you were.
Relax. The weight of the world
is not on your shoulders.
Take a day off.
Go for a long silent walk in the woods.
The world will still be there tomorrow -
as good and as bad as ever.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Each of us is of infinite value,
and each of us has the ability to make
a profound difference in the lives we touch.
We leave our most profoundly positive impact
on those around us by the nature of our lives
and the example we set -
not by how busy we are,
or how important we believe we are.
Setting an example of being loving, relaxed and joyful,
regardless of external circumstances,
is a great legacy for our family and for the world.
Self importance - ego - is not a path to happiness.
Focusing one's whole life on responsibilities,
without taking time for self-renewal and play,
abandons the joy and the true value of life.
I want my tombstone to read, "Inspired others,"
rather than, "Never missed a day at the office."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man who as a physical being
is always turned toward the outside,
thinking that his happiness lies outside him,
finally turns inward and
discovers that the source is within him.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Society is a masked ball,
where every one hides his real character,
and reveals it by hiding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society censors our actions,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies
When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
I sail the seas of life as the MASTER of my ship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The minority is always stronger than the majority,
because the minority is generally formed by those
who really have an opinion.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
- Leonardo da Vinci
What you are comes to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
WHY do you care what THEY think?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your time is limited,
so don't waste it living someone else's life.
- Steve Jobs
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
The higher the sun rises, the less shadow it casts;
even so, the greater is the goodness, the less it covets praise;
yet cannot avoid its rewards in honors.
- Lao Tzu
When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu
The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
We should be too big to take offense
and too noble to give it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Grin your smile; giggle your laugh; unfurl your joy;
dash the last trace of your self-consciousness;
and cavort your most uninhibited play.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We seek opinions that are likely to
support what we want to be true.
- Thomas Gilovich
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,
while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
What we call human nature in actuality is human habit.
- Jewel
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
You can't be everything to everyone.
- Bill Cosby
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you,
but it is most important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Gain happiness by living in the present -
without regret for the past or fear of the future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- Joseph Campbell
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
The Four Agreements
1.Be impeccable with your word.
2.Don't take anything personally.
3.Don't make assumptions.
4.Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Once you label me, you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Khalil Gibran
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
While it is natural to feel some degree of
need for the approval of others, be careful.
If you find yourself unwilling to
take actions that others disapprove of,
you have lost control of your own life
and have given your destiny to others.
An excessive need-for-approval
is a sign of low self-esteem,
and in severe cases, a condition termed co-dependency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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