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May you find great value in these Trophies quotes and sayings.
If self-validation were our
most significant societal measure -
we would give trophies to ourselves.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Your time is limited,
so don't waste it living someone else's life.
- Steve Jobs
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,
while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
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
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
The promises we makes to ourselves are the things
that assure us we have the capacity to keep our promises to others.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The minority is always stronger than the majority,
because the minority is generally formed by those
who really have an opinion.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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
Society censors our actions,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
What you are comes to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We seek opinions that are likely to
support what we want to be true.
- Thomas Gilovich
We should be too big to take offense
and too noble to give it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
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.
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you,
but it is most important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu
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
WHY do you care what THEY think?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
What we call human nature in actuality is human habit.
- Jewel
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Khalil Gibran
You can't be everything to everyone.
- Bill Cosby
Gain happiness by living in the present -
without regret for the past or fear of the future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
It is by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- Joseph Campbell
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
- Albert Einstein
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Society is a masked ball,
where every one hides his real character,
and reveals it by hiding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once you label me, you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The man who goes alone can start today;
but he who travels with another
must wait till that other is ready.
- Henry David Thoreau
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
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