Browsing Topic Best Best Self Quotes

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

The time you spend hating on someone robs you of your own time. You are literally hating on yourself and you don’t even realize it.

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. Stop aspiring to be anyone other than your own best self: for that does fall within your control.

If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you’ll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren’t even giving to yourself.

Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one’s best self.

Ours is a society that has falsely assumed that contribution must mean giving to some specific cause rather than simply giving our best selves. Thus, too many people don’t recognize the fact that simply being who they are is contributing significantly to the world. What if simply living your truth, being your best, and fully expressing your strengths, talents, and abilities at whatever you do were sufficient to contribute to the world? I say it is, and we must not overlook the fact that being our best ultimately inspires others and can and does indeed make an impact.

All parenting turns on a crucial question: to what extent parents should accept their children for who they are, and to what extent they should help them become their best selves.

The best self promotion is your next book. And the book after that and after that.

Charm might be described as enlightened self-interest, a development of one’s best self. … In the simplest possible terms, I think genuine charm is an unmotivated interest in others.

I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on earth. This was the moment – this was the time – when we came together to remake this great nation so that it may always reflect our very best selves and our highest ideals.

There is something in these moments of crisis that is really extraordinary about humanity and human beings’ resilience and the way in which everyone naturally comes together. I think you see the best in people in those moments for better or for worse and you find your best self.

The thing that you are too young to understand is that we all hide things. We hide them from our lovers because we wish to present our best selves, but also because if it is real love, we expect our loved one to simply understand it, without needing to ask. In a true partnership, the kind that lasts through the ages, there is an unspoken communion.

I’ve come to think that’s what heaven is- a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on.

The most inspiring leaders are those who… inspire the rest of us to be our best selves and to match our skills with our passions. They give us confidence to pursue our dreams.

Your ultimate goal in life is to become your best self. Your immediate goal is to get on the path that will lead you there.

A lot of people hurl themselves into relationships to lose themselves, but I think the best relationships help us to be more ourselves, to bring forth our best selves.

You will be your best self when you take time to understand what you really need, feel and want.

What we call doubt is often simply dullness of mind and spirit, not the absence of faith at all, but faith latent with the lives we are not quite living, God dormant in the world to which we are not quite giving our best selves.

Believe in yourself, work hard, work smart and passionately present your best self to the world.

In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.

My mission is to give girls the tools to be able to blossom into their best selves.

Certainly I’m still mining my experiences as a journalist. I think it’s no coincidence that all three of my novels basically are about how people act in a time of catastrophe. Do they go to their best self or their worst self?

Don’t be afraid of being unique. It’s like being afraid of your best self.

I am my best self when I have super short hair. That’s when I feel most like me and most confidant.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies, and that’s where I found my material, in the everyday struggle between capitalism and grace. Being broke and tired, you don’t come home your best self.

Freedom and happiness come from understanding – and working with – our limits. Begin at once a program of self-mastery. Stick with your purpose. Do not seek external approval. Do not worry about anything outside of your control. The only things you command are your thoughts and actions. We choose our response. Stop aspiring to be anyone other than your own best self: for that does fall within your control.

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

Firms that draw commitment from customers and staff give them a way to sign up for something that can allow them to be their best self.

There are these rare moments when musicians together touch something sweeter than they’ve ever found before in rehearsals or performance, beyond the merely collaborative or technically proficient, when their expression becomes as easy and graceful as friendship or love. This is when they give us a glimpse of what we might be, of our best selves, and of an impossible world in which you give everything to others, but lose nothing of yourself.

You should work extra hard to be your best selves. True evil has a hard time operating in the face of strenuous manifestations of good. Especially if you act right away. The longer you let evil hang around and get a grip on you, the harder it is to get rid of it.