Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.

Respect yourself and others will respect you.

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.

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.

The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

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

The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.

You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.

You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.

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

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself.

Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

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

You are what you believe yourself to be.

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.

Love yourself. It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out.

No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.