Self Being Quotes:

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

- Rumi

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Live Life To Its Fullest, Souls In Love

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Inspiring, Confidence, Children, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

- Edith Wharton

source: "Vesalius in Zante (1564)" st. 12 (1902)

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Empowering Women, Social Good

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

- Louisa May Alcott

source: J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.1082, e-artnow

topic: Inspirational, Confidence, Wisdom, Storms Of Life, Tall Ships

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

- Malcolm Forbes

topic: Positive, Strength, People, Importunate, Improve Self Esteem

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Interesting Life, Inner Voice

I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.

- Johnny Depp

topic: Inspirational, Being Yourself, Self Esteem, Inspiring Self Esteem, Being Weird

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Life Wisdom, Spirit Bound

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

- Bruce Lee

source: "Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living" edited by John Little, (p. 121), 2000.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Determination, Martial Arts Inspirational, Inspirational Determination

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

topic: Change, Grief, Learning, Way In Life, Empowering Women

Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

- Harvey Fierstein

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Positive, Individuality, Theatre, Live For Yourself, Just Being You

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

- Will Durant

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Daily Work, Top Management

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

- Harvey Fierstein

topic: Beautiful, Being Yourself, Freedom, Live For Yourself, Definition Of Beauty

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Beauty, Improve Self Esteem, Just Believe In Yourself

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Powerful, Deepest Fear, Our Deepest Fear, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

The unexamined life is not worth living.

- Socrates

topic: Inspirational Life, Life Is, Unexamined Life, Inner Life, Journey Of Self Discovery

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

- Marianne Williamson

source: A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Encouraging, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: World, Inaugural Speech, Discovering Yourself, Inspirational Beauty, Sensitive Person

Leaders aren't born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Motivational, Leadership, Graduation, True Leader, Funny Leadership

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim.

- Tim Field

topic: Silence, Victim, Bullied, Live For Yourself, Definition Of Beauty

Do you know how powerful you are?

- Puff Daddy

source: "10 Quotes From Diddy’s Howard Commencement Speech" by Iyana Robertson, www.vibe.com. May 11, 2014.

topic: Powerful, Inspiring Self Esteem, Is It Worth It, My Self Worth, Love My Self

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

- Rita Mae Brown

topic: Love, Life, Being Yourself, Inspirations Being Yourself, People In Your Life

Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it.

- Thaddeus Golas

topic: Self Esteem, Love Yourself, Feelings, Inspirations Being Yourself, My Self Worth

I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?

- Goldie Hawn

topic: Beauty, Running, Running Away, Improving Yourself, Confidence In Yourself

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Self Esteem, My Own Life, Inspiring Self Esteem

She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.

- Anais Nin

topic: Self Esteem, Love Yourself, Eye, Inspiring Self Esteem, Love My Self

Ram Dass

- Ram Dass

source: Ram Dass (2013). “Polishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart”, p.80, Sounds True

topic: Art, Pain, Unbearable, Transcending, Quaker

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

- Nelson Mandela

topic: Inspirational, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech, Individual Expression, Insecure People

You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are.

- Harbhajan Singh Yogi

topic: Inspirational, Powerful, Very Powerful, Inspiring Self Esteem, Is It Worth It

Leaders are not born, they're made.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Leadership, Discipline, Effort, True Leader, Sports Leadership

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

source: "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Young Entrepreneurs, Fear None

I'm tough on myself in terms of the standards I want to live up to, but that's also part of my pleasure: Knowing you are being your fullest self. Being your fullest self is a lot of work.

- Natalie Portman

source: "Natalie Portman’s Style Goes From Cute ‘90s Teen To A-List Star Chic", www.huffingtonpost.com. June 7, 2013.

topic: Self, Knowing, Want, Self Being

True enlightenment is nothing but the nature of one's own self being fully realized.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Self Being

Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself.

- Walker Percy

topic: Self, Bored, Boredom, Self Being

Note to self: being Kurt's son, being an ex-mental patient, getting into Harvard, having written a book, and being a doctor are all things that in and of themselves do not make a life. If you lean on them too hard, you'll find that there's not much there. But if you add up a lot of things that aren't in and of themselves enough, it almost starts to add up to something....

- Mark Vonnegut

topic: Book, Son, Self, Self Being, Note To Self

A lamp does not flicker in a place where no wind blows; so it is with a yogi, who controls his mind, intellect and self, being absorbed in the spirit within him.

- B.K.S. Iyengar

topic: Blow, Self, Wind, Self Being