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- If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
- Anonymous
- Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
- Christine Bovee
- Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see.
- Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965)
- Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.
- Johann Georg von Zimmermann
- Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
- Unknown, The Ladies Repository, September 1874
- A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
- Barbra Streisand (1942 - )
- As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), Faust
- If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.
- John Atkinson
- Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
- Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888), 'Self-Dependence'
- Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.
- Dr. Thomas Dooley
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