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.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind. Such a man is not malleable; he may be mistaken, he may be fooled in a given instance, but he is inflexible in regard to the absolutism of reality, i.e., in seeking and demanding truth.

Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.

You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks.

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

I wish I could show you…the astonishing light of your own being.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death-ourselves.

Our words reveal our thoughts; our manners mirror our self-esteem; our actions reflect our character; our habits predict the future.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.

Self care isn’t selfish. It’s self esteem.

As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.

A positive self image and healthy self esteem is based on approval, acceptance and recognition from others; but also upon actual accomplishments, achievements and success upon the realistic self confidence which ensues.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

Self-esteem does not come from surrounding yourself with people and things that seem to increase your value. Real self-esteem is an integration of an inner-value with things in the world around you.

You can never enslave somebody who knows who he is.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

The lower our self-esteem, the more we’re attracted to our opposite, and the higher our self-esteem, the more we are attracted to another like ourselves.

Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.