You can succeed if nobody else believes it, but you will never succeed if you don't believe in yourself. - William J. H. Boetcker No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt Cuteness in children is totally an adult perspective. The children themselves are unaware that the quality exists, let alone its desirability, until the reactions of grown-ups inform them. - Leontine Young A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. - Mark Twain He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping. - Oliver Goldsmith To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections. - Sandra Bierig I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do. That is character! - Theodore Roosevelt The work praises the man. - Irish proverb If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor. - Nicolas de Chamfort If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things that are artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength. - Rachel Carson You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. - Martha Graham Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do-can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. - Barbara Sher You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life. - Alex Haley A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them, for they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world. - Sigmund Freud A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. - Axel Munthe Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections. - Saint Francis de Sales No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character. - John Morley There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much. - May Sarton You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself. - Ethel Barrymore If I am not for myself, who is for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when? - Hillel |