To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.


- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.


- Judy Garland

Why are trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out?


- Oliver James

If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.

- Billie Holiday

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

- Howard Thurman

If a man loses pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured, or far away.

- Henry David Thoreau

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

- William Arthur Ward

Don't wait until people are dead to give them flowers.


- Sean Covey

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth." 

- Dan Rather

Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life.

- Samuel Smiles

Love yourself first and everything falls into line.

- Lucille Ball

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.


- Walt Whitman

Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God’s curriculum.

- Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer

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

- E. E. Cummings

Self-care is never a selfish act - it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others.

- Parker Palmer

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.


- William Shakespeare

It's important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don't necessarily nurture the soul. The soul has different concerns, of equal value: downtime for reflection, conversation, and reverie; beauty that is captivating and pleasuring; relatedness to the environs and to people; and any animal's rhythm of rest and activity.


- Thomas Moore

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.


- Buddha

Learn the skills needed to nurture you. Ask yourself: 'How do I nurture others?' and apply that to yourself.


- Luke De Sadeleer

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief she is beautiful.

- Sophia Loren

There’s no better way to energize your body, mind, and spirit than by taking care of yourself.

- Stephanie Tourles

Be your own inspiration - acknowledge the beauty and perfection of who you are.

- Trish Bishop

Believe in yourself and there will come a day when others will have no choice but to believe with you.

- Cynthia Kersey

Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.


- Jim Rohn

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


Benjamin Spock

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.


- William Shakespeare

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.



- Oscar Wilde

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.

- Leo F. Buscaglia

You must lose a fly to catch a trout.

- George Herbert

If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough.

- Mario Andretti

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it

- Goethe

Do one thing every day that scares you.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.

- Philip Andrew Adams

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? 

- Robert H. Schuller

The more chance there is of stubbing your toe, the more chance you have of stepping into success. 

- Anon.

This nation was built by men who took risks - pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, business men who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action. 

- Brooks Atkinson

You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take. 

- Wayne Gretzky

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. 

- Pablo Picasso

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily.  To not dare is to lose oneself. 

- Soren Kierkegaard

It is always easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.

- Adm. Grace Hopper