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- Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.
- Vida D. Scudder
- Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vise versa.
- Dr. Karl A. Menninger
- He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.
- William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
- Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.
- Geoffrey F. Abert
- Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
- Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC)
- Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- Before a diamond shows its brilliancy and prismatic colors it has to stand a good deal of cutting and smoothing.
- Author Unknown
- The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.
- Sir W. Temple
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