A competent and self-confident person is
incapable of jealousy in anything.
Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
- Robert A. Heinlein
One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
- Robert A. Heinlein
One man's "magic" is another man's engineering.
"Supernatural" is a null word.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Anyone who can worship a trinity
and insist that his religion is a monotheism
can believe anything.
- Robert A Heinlein
Almost any sect, cult, or religion will
legislate its creed into law
if it acquires the political power.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
- Robert A. Heinlein
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life
comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
- Robert A. Heinlein
I'm awash in self-contempt!
- the Woody Allen movie Celebrity
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
He who joyfully marches in rank and file
has already earned my contempt.
He has been given a large brain by mistake,
since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
- Albert Einstein
It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
- W. C. Fields
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are,
far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
I have spent many years of my life in opposition,
and I rather like the role.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
This is your day to Laugh at Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
- Leonardo da Vinci
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving.
I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.
- William J. Clinton
I am a self-centered spoiled-rotten brat,
Thank you for nurturing me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect
and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance,
as is every other life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Self confident independent thinker -
sounds like the makings of a hero.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect,
and the absence of ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No amount of self-improvement can make up
for a lack of self-acceptance.
- Anonymous
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.
- George Carlin
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I sail the seas of life as the MASTER of my ship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
Grin your smile; giggle your laugh; unfurl your joy;
dash the last trace of your self-consciousness;
and cavort your most uninhibited play.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He who lives in harmony with himself
lives in harmony with the universe.
- Marcus Aurelius
The importance of history is in it's
educational value for our lives today,
not in regret, resentment, or revenge.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe
Small people never learn to be indifferent;
they either envy or pity.
- Anonymous
We disrespect ourselves and our free-will
whenever we say that we NEED to do something.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
- Winston Churchill
Real excellence and humility are
not incompatible one with the other,
on the contrary they are twin sisters.
- Jean Baptiste Lacordaire
Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To travel is to take a journey into yourself.
- Danny Kaye
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain
I have a great deal of company in the house,
especially in the morning when nobody calls.
- Henry David Thoreau
The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda
We all go through life bristling
at our external limitations,
but the most difficult chains
to break are inside us.
- Bradley Whitford
I was thinking that I might fly today.
Just to disprove all the things you say...
please be careful with me, I'm sensitive,
and I'd like to stay that way.
- Jewel
Every man has his own courage,
and is betrayed because he seeks in himself
the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You get what you settle for.
- the character Louise in the movie Thelma and Louise
Make your "yes" mean yes,
and your "no" mean no.
- John Wooden
Other people do not have to change
for us to experience peace of mind.
- Gerald Jampolsky
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself,
than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
- Henry David Thoreau
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
Freedom is from within.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Your greatest gift to your family and friends is yourself -
your relaxed, happy, and fully-present self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz
May your life always be Counterpoint to the Clamor of the World.
May you delight in Dancing Lightly With Life.
May you soar on eagle wings, high above the madness of the world.
May you always sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
May you taste, smell, and touch your dreams of a beautiful tomorrow.
May your sun always shine, and your sky be forever blue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard
To have a friendship with God,
all I really have to do is have
a friendship with my Self.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Solitude is painful when one is young,
but delightful when one is more mature.
- Albert Einstein
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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