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- Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
- Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, "A Civil Campaign", 1999
- A man who doesn't trust himself can never truly trust anyone else.
- Cardinal de Retz, Memoires
- Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.
- Marva Collins
- It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
- Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fear
- The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- I looked always outside of myself to see what I could make the world give me instead of looking within myself to see what was there.
- Belle Livingstone
- Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.
- Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
- The only gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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