Self Esteem 

1. Selfworth cannot be verified by others. You are worthy because you say that it is so.  Mike Jones
2. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.  Eleanor Roosevelt
3. The most important opinion you have is the one you have of yourself, and the most significant things you say all day are those things you say to yourself.  Unknown Author
4. There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of selfesteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.  Nathaniel Branden
5. Someone’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.  Les Brown 

Accepting Yourself 

1. At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.  Friedrich Nietzsche
2. A wise man never loses anything if he has himself.  Michel de Montaigne, translated
3. And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.  Confucius 

Being Yourself 

1. The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune.  Boris Pasternak
2. To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.  e.e. cummings
3. It is better to be hated for what you are, than to be loved for something you are not.  Andre Gide
4. 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. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you NOT to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people won’t feel unsure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. As we let our own Light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.  Marianne Williamson
5. We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.  François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
6. You were born an original. Don’t die a copy.  John Mason
7. Always be a firstrate version of yourself, instead of a secondrate version of somebody else.  Judy Garland
8. If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.  Johann von Goethe
9. He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.  Raymond Hull
10. Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.  Janis Joplin
11. I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I’ve written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.  Shirley MacLaine
12. Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.  Dr. Seuss  
13. Be what you are.  This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.  Julius Charles Hare
14. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.  Mark Twain
15. Learn to… be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.  Henri Frederic Amiel
16. There’s room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you’re trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn’t.  Tori Amos
17. It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.  Desiderius Erasmus
18. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.  Oscar Wilde
19. Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?  Fanny Brice
20. To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.  Ralph Waldo Emerson
21. Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.  St. Francis De Sales
22. The hardest battle you’re ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.  Leo Buscaglia 

Believing in Yourself 

1. Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.  Charles F. Kettering
2. Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.  Gail Devers
3. Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn’t have it in the beginning.  Mahatma Gandhi
4. Believe deep down in your heart that you’re destined to do great things.  Joe Paterno
5. What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.  Ezra Pound
6. Believe in your dreams and they may come true; believe in yourself and they will come true.  Author Unknown
7. If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won’t, you most assuredly won’t. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.  Denis Waitley
8. Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution. David Joseph Schwartz
9. Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.  Brian Tracy
10. Love what you do. Believe in your instincts. And you’d better be able to pick yourself up and brush yourself off every day.  Author Unknown 

Trusting Yourself 

1. Selftrust is the first secret of success.  Ralph Waldo Emerson
2. Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.  Benjamin Spock
3. Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s.  Billy Wilder
4. Every time you don’t follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.  Shakti Gawain