Jonno White
May 29, 202353 min
1. “She remembered who she was and the game changed.” – Lalah Deliah
2. “The time is now. Stop hitting the snooze button on your life. ” — Mel Robbins
3. “You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
4. “I know what I bring to the table… so trust me when I say I’m not afraid to eat alone.” – Unknown
5. “What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.”
6. “I will speak ill of no one and speak all the good I know of everybody.”
7. “The more you focus on yourself, the less you care about. . . [the stuff] around you. ”
8. “You can’t change the direction of the wind, but you can adjust your sails. – Jimmy Dean
9. “You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. ” ― Henry David Thoreau
10. “If you want to succeed, focus on changing yourself, not others.”
11. “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
12. “The power of imagination makes us infinite. ” ― John Muir
13. “If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can’t hear them anymore.” – Michele Ruiz
14. “Make yourself a priority. At the end of the day, you’re your longest commitment.”
15. “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
16. “If your ultimate goal is making money everything that makes a dollar will look desirable. — Troy Gathers
17. “You were not created to please others. Live to be happy and focus on pleasing yourself.”
18. “You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. ” – Buddha
19. “First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
20. “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
21. “Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.”
22. “To the degree you give others what they need, they will give you what you need.” - Og Mandino
23. “Success is not so much what we have, as it is what we are.”
24. “A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.”
25. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. ” - Albert Einstein
26. “Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.”
27. “If you wish to be loved, love.” – Seneca
28. “Withdraw to the untroubled quietude deep within the soul, and refresh yourself.”
29. “The successful warrior is the average man with laser-like focus.”
30. “Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.” Henry Drummond
31. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” ~ Bruce Lee
32. “Push yourself because no one else is going to do it for you. ” — Rhyanna Watson
33. “Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.”
34. “Searching outside of you is Samsara (the world). Searching within you leads to Nirvana.”
35. “But as for you, be strong, and do not give up, for your work will be rewarded.” – 2 Chronicles 15:7
36. “The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs…one step at a time. ”
37. “Fashion is my way to express how much I love myself.” – Laura Brunereau
38. “Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”
39. “You’ve sacrificed too much for others. Now do the same for yourself.” ~ Mitta Xinindlu
40. “It’s not that I’m so smart; it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”
41. “Be a pineapple: stand tall, wear a crown, and be sweet on the inside. ”
42. “Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want. ” — Jim Rohn
43. “Unless you’re continually improving your skills, you’re quickly becoming irrelevant. ” — Stephen Covey
44. “Success in life is not for those who run fast, but for those who keep running and always on the move. ”
45. “Our focus is our future, and what we focus on will multiply in our life.” David DeNotaris
46. “Fall in love with taking care of yourself. Mind, body, and spirit. ” Anonymous
47. “What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” — Napoleon Hill
48. “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”
49. “Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.”
50. “If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.”
51. “Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.”
52. “Success is doing ordinary things extraordinary well.”
53. “Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor. ” – Brian Tracy
54. “A candle never loses any of its light while lighting up another Candle.” - Rumi
55. “Excellence withers without an adversary.”
56. “The swiftest way to triple your success is to double your investment in personal development. ” - Robin Sharma
57. “The highest reward for one’s toil is not what one gets for it, but what one becomes by it.”
58. “You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.”
59. “With self-discipline, most anything is possible. ” ― Theodore Roosevelt
60. “Fear overrides all rational thinking. ”
61. “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. ” ― George Bernard Shaw
62. “Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.” – Malcolm S. Forbes
63. “To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.”
64. “The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.”
65. “Value yourself first and only then you can learn to value others. ”
66. “At the very moment when people underestimate you is when you can make a breakthrough.”
67. “The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.”
68. “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
69. “Your job is to be the best that you can possibly be. ” – Brain Tracy
70. “Enthusiam is the steam that drives the engine.”
71. “One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.”
72. “We will either find a way or make one.”
73. “Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option. ”
74. “Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. ” ― Albert Einstein
75. “Stay focused on self-direction and personal growth and away from finger-pointing.” Nina Atwood
76. “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too. ” ― Paulo Coelho
77. “Look for the small improvements, recognize those successes, and let them be a big deal. ” ― Elise Cripe
78. “Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better. ” ― Bohdi Sanders
79. “I believe that as much as you take, you have to give back. It’s important not to focus on yourself too much.”
80. “When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are. ”
81. “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. ” - Thomas Jefferson
82. “Life is like a game of chess.
83. “I don’t fit into any stereotypes and I like myself that way.” – C. Joybell
84. “It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.”
85. “Everything in life is easier when you don’t concern yourself with what everybody else is doing. ” Anonymous
86. “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”
87. “Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out.”
88. “The more you are like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.” – Walt Disney
89. “Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.”
90. “The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.” - Confucius
91. “There is only one corner of the universe that you can be sure of improving and it is yourself”
92. “Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.”
93. “Don’t waste your energy trying to change opinions…Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.”
94. “Choose progress over perfection. ” ― Unknown
95. “If you can imagine it, you can create it. If you can dream it, you can become it.”
96. “Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.”
97. “I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right.”
98. “Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.”
99. “Perhaps this is the moment for which you have been created.” – Esther 4:14
100. “Know what matters most to you and be unwilling to compromise those priorities at almost any price.”
101. “They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.” – Confucius
102. “You have your own life, why waste it focusing on others.” ~ Nitin Namdeo
103. “To get on your shit, you need to get out of shit.” – Shrea Bhasin
104. “Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.”
105. “Focus on yourself. Don’t get lost in other people. ” Anonymous
106. “Never say never because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.”
107. “I strive to be brief, and I become obscure. ”
108. “Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your inner voice. ”
109. “It sometimes takes a state of solitude to bring to mind the real power of companionship.” ― Stephen Richards
110. “Talk to yourself like someone you love.” – Brene Brown
111. “Don’t belittle yourself. Be big yourself. ”
112. “What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.”
113. “We can’t become what we need to be by remaining what we are. ” ― Oprah Winfrey
114. “The only journey is the journey within.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
115. “To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”
116. “Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be, become one yourself!”
117. “Always remember, your focus determines your reality.”
118. “Setting goals is essential when it comes to personal development. ” — Thibaut Meurisse
119. “Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.”
120. “Be the change you want to see in this world. ” – Gandhi
121. “Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.”
122. “The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.”
123. “Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.”
124. “Loving yourself isn’t vanity; it’s sanity.” – Katrina Mayer
125. “You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.” - Paulo Coelho
126. “Do, or do not. There is no try.”
127. “Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.”
128. “Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious. ”
129. “One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.”
130. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt
131. “Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge.”
132. “We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world” – Helen Keller
133. “Focus alone is not enough; putting in the time to commit is also crucial to achieve success.”
134. “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
135. “Those who seek a better life must first become a better person. ”
136. “To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.”
137. “You’re either green and growing or you’re ripe and rotting. ” —John Addison
138. “The only person I need to compare myself to is my yesterday self.” – Allison Sue
139. “It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.”
140. “You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company. ”
141. “Keep it simple and focus on what matters. Don’t let yourself be overwhelmed.” – Confucius
142. “Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy. ” – Stephen Fry
143. “Focus on yourself. Don’t get lost in other people.”
144. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
145. “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. ” — E. E. cummings
146. I’ve erased the word “Easy” from my vocabulary. Easy won’t get you very far. — Troy Gathers
147. “Let people be hungry for you. Be unavailable from time to time, you’re focusing on your shit.”
148. “Big goals get big results. No goals gets no results or somebody else's results.”
149. “Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.”
150. “For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be. What is once well done, is well done forever.”
151. “If you want to succeed focus on changing yourself, not others.”
152. “There’s always room for improvement. ”
153. “There are no prerequisites to worthiness. You are born worthy.” – Unknown
154. “If pain doesn’t lead to humility, you have wasted your suffering. ” – Katerina Stoykova Klemer
155. “Be so busy improving yourself that you have no time to criticize others.”
156. “Everything is within your power, and your power is within you. ” — Janice Trachtman
157. “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.”
158. “To do: stop being so hard on myself.” – Unknown
159. “I learned long ago to focus on things you can control and don’t even pay attention to things you don’t.”
160. “Don’t fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”
161. “The more you are like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.”
162. “You can worry about the competition…or you can focus on what’s ahead of you and drive fast. ” —Jack Dorsey
163. “To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
164. “Reality is a projection of your thoughts or the things you habitually think about.”
165. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” — Will Durant
166. “There’s only one investment that will never go down — an investment in yourself. ” ― Frank Sonnenberg
167. “I feed my spirit. I train my body. I focus my mind. It’s my time. ” —Anonymous
168. “Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.”
169. “They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.”
170. “Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them.” – Jack Canfield
171. “I’m doing it for me.” – Unknown
172. “Make the most of yourself…. for that is all there is of you. ” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
173. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. ” – George Bernard Shaw
174. “You’ve sacrificed too much for others. Now do the same for yourself.” ― Mitta Xinindlu
175. “Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.”
176. “The time is now. Stop hitting the snooze button on your life. ” —Mel Robbins
177. “Adopt new habits … Consolidate your principles by putting them into practice.”
178. “The secret to focusing on your dream is to touch it every single day of your life.” ~ Oscar Bimpong
179. “A positive attitude can really make dreams come true – it did for me.” – David Bailey
180. “If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.”
181. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. ”
182. “If you are going to succeed, you must deal with what caused you to fail. ”
183. “I don’t have to be what nobody else wants me to be and I am not afraid to be what I want to be.”
184. “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
185. “We can truly love one another once we love who we are.” –Angela C. Santomero
186. “You are what you believe yourself to be.” – Paulo Coelho
187. “The entire universe deserve your love. You also deserve to experience it back.” – Anonymous
188. “It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love. ”
189. “Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.”
190. “Everything you need is within reach, the key is whose going to reach. ”
191. “We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day. ”
192. “Whatever you are, be a good one. ”
193. “Your greatest responsibility is to love yourself and to know you are enough.” ~ Unknown
194. “Be so busy improving yourself that you have no time to criticize others.” ~ Unknown
195. “The best way to predict your future is to create it. ”
196. “He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.”
197. “What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”
198. “For no one has ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it.” – Ephesians 5:29
199. “If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else. ”
200. “The real voyage of discovery consists of not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”
201. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wilde
202. “Be humble always and identify with the common man; even when success and achievements want to make you proud.”
203. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
204. “It is a shame for the soul to be first to give way in this life, when thy body does not give way.”
205. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
206. “When everything seems like an uphill struggle, just think of the view from the top. ” ― Unknown
207. “A man’s dreams are an index to his greatness.”
208. “By doing the work to love ourselves more, I believe we will love each other better. ” - Laverne Cox
209. “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always be where you’ve always been. ” — T. D. Jakes
210. “When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.”
211. “Self-love is necessary for a functional and successful life” – Angela C. Santomero
212. “A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”
213. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
214. “Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.”
215. “Always remember, your focus determines your reality.” – George Lucas
216. “Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. ” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
217. “Accept who you are. Unless you’re a serial killer. ”
218. “Unless we love and treat ourselves well, we are ill-equipped to do the same for others.” – Angela C. Santomero
219. “Success it the progressive realization of worthwhile, predetermined, personal goals.”
220. “I am a queen because I know how to govern myself. ”
221. “Follow your bliss!”
222. “We can't control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.”
223. “To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.”
224. “Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” – Dolly Parton
225. “I am somebody. I am me. I like being me. And I need nobody to make me somebody.” – Louis L’Amour
226. “You carry so much love in your heart. Give some to yourself.” – R.Z.
227. “I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be. ” — Albert Einstein
228. “It’s really not your business what others are doing. What matters is what you’re doing. ”― Clyde Lee Dennis
229. “As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.”
230. “Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself. ” — Maxwell Maltz
231. “The dreaming has to be backed up by the doing. ” — Carrie Wilkerson
232. “When you shift your attention to yourself, there are countless opportunities to explore.” ~ Nitin Namdeo
233. “The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.”
234. “There’s only one investment that will never go down — an investment in yourself. ”― Frank Sonnenberg
235. “When you focus on yourself, and love yourself, some relationships have to go.” – Adrian Micahel
236. “If you prioritize yourself, you are going to save yourself. ”
237. “There is no challenge more challenging than the challenge to improve yourself. ” ― Michael F. Staley
238. “Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals.” — LL Cool J
239. “To gain self-respect, you need to put yourself first.”
240. “How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?” — Seth Godin
241. “Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-improvement. ” — Baltasar Gracian
242. “Real change will come when you focus on yourself. ”
243. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress. ” - Frederick Douglass
244. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!”
245. “Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.”
246. “One of the best times for figuring out who you are & what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up.”
247. “The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that do.” ~ Steve Jobs
248. “Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.”
249. “Never say never because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion. ”
250. “Nothing ever comes to one that is worth having except as a result of hard work.”
251. “Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” – Helen Keller
252. “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. ” ― Babe Ruth
253. “Whatever you are, be a good one.”
254. “Action is the foundational key to all success.”
255. “Forget yourself and start to work.”
256. “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” – Anne Lamott
257. “For every mountain there is a miracle.”
258. “Don’t focus on the competition, focus on ways to make yourself better.”
259. “You get the benefits of both giving and receiving compassion when you offer it to yourself.” – Rick Hanson
260. “The path to success is to take massive determined action.”
261. “Decisions decide destiny, there is no action without decision. ”
262. “In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.”
263. “I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.”
264. “May you live every day of your life.”
265. “Be kind to the person you are now.” – iambrilliyant
266. “The merit in action lies in finishing it to the end.”
267. “For the moment I’m just focusing on my own stuff.”
268. “Choose, everyday, to forgive yourself. You are human, flawed, and most of all worthy of love.” – Alison Malee
269. “I only want to do better work. That’s the focus of my life.”
270. “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” - Pablo Picasso
271. “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts” - Marcus Aurelius
272. “I do what I do, and I do it well, and focus and take it one moment at a time.”
273. “He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior. ” ― Confucius
274. “A master lives in the world of transformation, not the world of loss and gain.”
275. “Words kill, words give life; they’re either poison or fruit, you choose.” – Proverbs 18:21
276. “If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.”
277. “Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on. ”
278. “For though I fall, I will rise again.” – Micah 7:8
279. “The biggest temptation is to settle for too little.”
280. “There are more important things to focus on in life than how you look.”
281. “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure. ” – Paulo Coelho
282. “If you don’t separate yourself from your distractions, your distractions will separate you from your goals.”
283. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
284. “The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits. ”
285. “Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up. ” – Rocky Balboa
286. “Their opinions are not your oxygen.” – Curtis Tyrone Jones
287. “Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly.”
288. “Curiosity improved the cat. ” ― Brandon Nankivell
289. “If you are heartbroken, still leave your heart open, so pain can find an exit.” – Alexandra Vasiliu
290. “The more you are like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique. ”
291. “Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness. ” – Deborah Day
292. “Our greatest battles are that with our own minds.”
293. “My mind is focused and I have clarity in all that I do at work. I do not succumb to distractions. ” —Anonymous
294. “Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive”.
295. “Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”
296. “In the journey of finding love I focus on having a great relationship with myself first. ”
297. “Choose to put yourself first and make you a priority. It’s not selfish, it’s necessary.”
298. “It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.”
299. “You ain’t gotta like me. I like me.” – Kanye West
300. “When walking, walk. When eating, eat.”
301. “Those who seek a better life must first become a better person. ” — Jim Rohn
302. “Be who you are and say what you feel because those mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. ”
303. “The man who moved a mountain was the one who began carrying away small stones.”
304. “There is only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.”
305. “You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. ”
306. “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. ” ― Jim Rohn
307. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
308. “Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself. ” – Joseph Campbell
309. “Focus on doing the right things instead of a bunch of things.”
310. “Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better.” ~ Bohdi Sanders
311. “I loved you at your darkest.” – Romans 5:8
312. “The greatest pleasure in life is in doing what people say you cannot do”. Walther Bageholt
313. “Big goals amazing experiences more happiness less pain healthy relationships stay focused on what matters. ”
314. “Successful people never worry about what others are doing. ” Anonymous
315. “Change equals self-improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before. ” ―Pat Summitt
316. “Stop caring so much about what people think. Focus on you and on becoming the best version of yourself.”
317. “You can never be happy living someone else’s dream. Live your own.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
318. “A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. ” —Arthur Golden
319. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodor Roosevelt
320. “When you focus on yourself and love yourself, some relationships have to go. ” Adrian Michael
321. “See things the way they are not worse than they are. ”
322. “I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.”
323. “Sometimes you have to focus on yourself for the greater good for others.” – Jawed Abid
324. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. ” — George Bernard Shaw
325. “We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.”
326. “Focus on your opinion of yourself and not the opinion others have of you.”
327. “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” ~ Maya Angelou
328. “Never say never because limits, like fears are often just an illusion. ” – Michael Jordan
329. “If you don’t have daily objectives, you qualify as a dreamer.”
330. “Let this be the criteria by which you measure all things: Is this an act of love?”
331. “When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye. ”
332. “We are powerfully imprisoned by the terms in which we have been conducted to think.” - Buckminster Fuller
333. “Life is short. Focus on what matters and let go of what doesn’t.”
334. “I am who I am. Not who you think I am. Not who you want me to be. I am me.” – Brigitte Nicole
335. “No one can make you feel inferior without your own consent.”
336. “Visionary decision-making happens at the intersection of intuition and logic. ” ― Paul O’Brien
337. “No one can make you feel inferior without your own consent. ”
338. “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
339. “Change equals self-improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before. ” ― Pat Summitt
340. “We must become the change we want to see.” — Mahatma Gandhi
341. “Don’t let the bad days make you think you have a bad life.” – Unknown
342. “If you don't behave as you believe, you will end by believing as you behave.”
343. “Do your best, and be a little better than you are. ” — Gordon B. Hinckley
344. “Be the type of person you want to meet. ” ― Tom McCallum
345. “Stop competing with others. Start competing with yourself.”
346. “Bring the sun over my heart, I want to bloom.” – Alexandra Vasiliu
347. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
348. “You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha
349. “You were born to be real, not to be perfect.”
350. “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” – Oprah Winfrey
351. “Improvement begins with I. ” ― Arnold H. Glasow
352. “It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
353. “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”- Zig Ziglar
354. “Be healthy and take care of yourself, but be happy with the beautiful things that make you, you. ”
355. “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”
356. “Stay focused on self-direction and personal growth and away from finger-pointing. ” — Nina Atwood
357. “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
358. “Real difficulties can be overcome; It is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.”
359. “After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge.”
360. “Focus on the possibilities for success, not on the potential for failure.” ~ Napoleon Hill
361. “Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.” ~ Lao Tzu
362. “Anything in life worth having is worth working for.”
363. “You are too blessed to be stressed. Stop focusing on the negatives. Only embrace the positives. ” —Anonymous
364. “To gain self-respect, you need to put yourself first. ”
365. “Screw it, let’s do it – Just get on with it and do it. ”
366. “Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment. ” – Lao Tzu
367. “Who is the only person in your life who is available 24/7 to provide you with care and kindness? You.”
368. “Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.”
369. “Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.”
370. “What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?” Robert Schuller
371. “Do something today that your future self will thank you for. ” ― Sean Patrick Flanery
372. “Don’t focus on the competition, focus on ways to make yourself better. ”
373. “My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused on a few things. ”
374. “When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful. ” ― Malala Yousafzai
375. “Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.”
376. “Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself.
377. “Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned. ” ― Oscar Auliq Ice
378. “When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful. ” - Malala Yousafzai
379. “I’d rather have the whole world against me than my own soul.”
380. “Take five minutes to center yourself in the morning – set your intention every day.” Oprah Winfrey
381. “I don’t focus on what I’m up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.”*
382. “The most powerful relationship you will ever have, is the relationship with yourself.” – Steve Maraboli
383. “You have to choose yourself, even when others refuse to.” – R. H. Sin
384. “Always putting others first creates deep resentment, destroys your happiness, and is unsustainable.”
385. “Focus on loving yourself, instead of loving the idea of other people loving you.”
386. “Sometimes our best is simply not enough. We have to do what is required.”
387. “Genuine relationships depend first on healthy relationships with ourselves.”
388. “It only takes one person to change your life – you.”
389. “It is not as much about who you used to be as it is about who you choose to be. ” ― Sanhita Baruah
390. “Value yourself first and only then you can learn to value others.”- Charlyn Khater.
391. “Always think, ‘what’s the worst that can happen’ and have some kind of strategy to deal with it. ”
392. “When you shift your attention to yourself, there are countless opportunities to explore.” – Nitin Namdeo
393. “Be healthy and take care of yourself, but be happy with the beautiful things that make you, you.” – Beyonce
394. “Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own. ” — Bruce Lee
395. “The expert in anything was once a beginner.” – Helen Hayes
396. “Seek to be whole, not perfect.” – Oprah
397. “If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate.”
398. “Just look at yourself in the mirror and focus on what you need to do to get better. ” Choo Freeman
399. “Your life is the fruit of your own doing.”
400. “To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.”
401. “We are all born so beautiful the greatest tragedy is being convinced we are not.” – Unknown
402. “A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.”
403. “You have to be odd to be number one.” – Dr. Seuss
404. “You are enough just as you are.”
405. “You were born to be real, not to be perfect.” – Unknown
406. “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it”
407. “All relationships are a reflection of your relationship with yourself.” – Deepak Chopra
408. “In order to have influence, you have to be influenced. ”
409. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. ” ― Warren Buffett
410. “Your life is controlled by what you focus on.”- Tony Robbins.
411. “I don’t focus on what I’m up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.” ~ Venus Williams
412. “Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.”
413. “I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.”
414. “Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” – J.K. Rowling
415. “Change is your friend, not your foe; change is a brilliant opportunity to grow. ” — Simon T. Bailey
416. “Focus on your opinion of yourself and not the opinion others have of you. ”
417. “No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.”
418. “What we think, we become.” – Buddha
419. “Success is a journey, not a destination.”
420. “Finding is reserved for the searchers, we don’t find what we need, we find what we search for. ”
421. “Well-being comes from meeting our needs, not denying them.” – Rick Hanson
422. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”
423. “Focus is a matter of deciding what things you’re not going to do.”
424. ... my success began the day I started focusing on developing who I am as a person.
425. “Never expect a thing you do not want, and never desire a thing you do not expect.”
426. “What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters to what lies within us.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
427. “Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
428. “Always putting others first creates deep resentment, destroys your happiness, and is unsustainable. ”
429. “I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side.” – Dr. Maya Angelou
430. “When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’”
431. “Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job. ” – Jim Rohn
432. “Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness. ” – Jean Vanier
433. “Focus on yourself, your goals, and your dreams; the rest will figure itself out.” – K. Azizian
434. “The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.”
435. “Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself. ”
436. “Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.”
437. “Focus on your opinion of yourself and not the opinion others have of you.” – Winnie Harlow
438. “Every morning starts a new page in your story. Make it a great one today. ” ― Doe Zantamata
439. “The difference between being mediocre and achieving excellence is you. ” — Stephen Richards
440. “I am all for changing, even if mistakes are made in the process. Mistakes do not matter. ” ― Jiddu Krishnamurti
441. “Where there is love there is life.”
442. “May you live all the days of your life.”
443. “Who is a true seeker grows, learns and discovers that he is the only one responsible for what happens.”
444. “Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.”
445. “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”
446. “Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.”
447. “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
448. “Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven’t planted.”
449. “We must become the change we want to see.”
450. “Life tried to crush her, but only succeeded in creating a diamond.” – John Mark Green
451. “Sometimes you just need to focus on you.”
452. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
453. “The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do.” – Swati Sharma
454. “When you want something bad enough, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” - Paulo Coelho
455. “Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
456. “Change is your friend not your foe; change is a brilliant opportunity to grow. ” —Simon T. Bailey
457. “If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself. ”
458. “The things that make me different are the things that make me me. ”
459. “Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.”
460. “I would like to think that all of my successes in life are really just the fruit of my failures. ” - Yvie Oddly
461. “The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. ”
462. “Flowers grow back even after the harshest winters, you will too.” – Jennae Cecilia
463. “The only limits in our life are those we impose on ourselves. ” – Bob Proctor
464. “To love is to be vulnerable.” – Brene Brown
465. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
466. “Everyone must choose one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. ” ― Jim Rohn
467. “Never neglect an opportunity for self-improvement. ” — Unknown
468. “A bad day for your ego is a great day for your soul. ” – Jillian Michaels
469. “A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power. ”
470. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.”
471. “You are your choices.”
472. “Love yourself more, you’ll never regret it.” – Ann Marie Molina
473. “We don’t know who we are until we see what we can do. ” — Martha Grimes
474. “What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.”
475. “Real change will come when you focus on yourself.” ~ Ritu Ghatourey
476. “Let all that you do be done in love.” – 1 Corinthians 16:14
477. “We are what we frequently do.”
478. “The swiftest way to triple your success is to double your investment in personal development. ” ― Robin Sharma
479. “It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not. ” ― Denis Waitley
480. “Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.”
481. “I’ve always tried to go one step past wherever people expected me to end up.”
482. “We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
483. “Leap and the net will appear.”
484. “I learned that focus is key. Not just in your running a company, but in your personal life as well.”
485. “Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become. ” – Eli Cohen
486. “It doesn’t matter what others are doing. It matters what you are doing. ” Anonymous
487. “Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”
488. “Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.”
489. “Be the change that you wish to see in the world. ”
490. “Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.”
491. “In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard.”
492. “You’re always one decision away from a totally different life.” – Unknown
493. “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. ” —Aristotle Onassis
494. “Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do.”
495. “That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.”
496. “Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.”
497. “The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.”
498. “Accepting yourself only as long as you look a certain way isn’t self love, it’s self destruction.” – Laci Green
499. “If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.” – Dr. Maya Angelou
500. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ” – Aristotle
501. “People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”
502. “Flowers need time to bloom. So do you.” – Unknown
503. “Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love” – Buddha
504. “God has entrusted me with myself. ”
505. “Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.”
506. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. ” ― Amelia Earhart
507. “Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
508. “All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.”
509. “The best investment you can make is in yourself.”
510. “I am unapologetically myself.” – Unknown
511. “To move the world we must first move ourselves.”
512. “Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead. ”
513. “Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.” – Louise L. Hay
514. “It is not the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. ” — William Shakespeare
515. “Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals.
516. “You alone are enough, you have nothing to prove to anybody.” – Dr. Maya Angelou
517. “Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. ” ― Niccolo Machiavelli
518. “Don’t compare yourself to others. Compare yourself to the person from yesterday. ” ― Jordan Peterson
519. “I don’t count the days, I make the days count!”
520. “Never underestimate the fact that loving others is a choice but loving yourself is a responsibility.”
521. “If you want to become successful, seek to become a person of value. ”
522. “My life is constantly under construction. There’s always something to improve. ” ― Unknown
523. “Stay focused on your ultimate sacred goal
524. “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. ” ― Thomas Jefferson
525. “Every moment of one’s existence, one is growing into more or retreating into less. ” ― Norman Mailer
526. “If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.
527. “Comparison is an act of violence against the self.” – Iyanla Vanzant
528. “If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.” ~ Unknown
529. “A man’s true delight is to do the things he was made for. ” – Marcus Aurelius
530. “Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves.” – Pema Chodron
531. “The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.”
532. “When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself. ”
533. “When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.”- Oprah Winfrey
534. “Breathe darling, this is just a chapter. It’s not your whole story.” – S.C. Laurie
535. “Doing acts of mercy gets me out of myself. It gets my focus off of me and onto other people.” Rick Warren
536. “You’ve sacrificed too much for others. Now do the same for yourself. ”
537. “Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.”
538. “Unconditional self love is all the really matters in life. It’s where real life begins.” – Anonymous
539. “Work on yourself more than you do on your job. ” ― Jim Rohn
540. “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. ”
541. “Focus on what you want to do.” – Rachel Singleton
542. “Permit yourself to change your mind when something is no longer working for you. ” - Nedra Glover Tawwab
543. “Whoever values peace of mind and the health of the soul will live the best of all possible lives.”
544. “Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement.”
545. “You’ve sacrificed too much for others. Now do the same for yourself.”
546. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress. ” ― Frederick Douglass
547. “Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people.”
548. “Learn to work harder on yourself than on your job.” - Jim Rohn
549. “If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
550. “Don’t waste your energy trying to change opinions…Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.” ~ Tina Fey
551. “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
552. “The best thing I ever did was become more low-key and focus on myself.”
553. “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”
554. “Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness. ” ― Jean Vanier
555. “Your life is controlled by what you focus on.”
556. “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. ” ― Maya Angelou
557. “You are not your mistakes. They are what you did. Not who you are.” – Lisa Lieberman-Wang
558. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. ” ― Albert Einstein
559. “You were born to be real, not to be perfect.” – Ralph Marston
560. “Don’t rush into a relationship. Focus on finding yourself first.”
561. “I think everybody’s weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it. ”
562. “Success equals goals … all else is commentary.”
563. “Knowledge without transformation is not wisdom. ”
564. “Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.”
565. “Talk to yourself like you would someone you love.”
566. “No man is ever whipped until he quits — in his own mind.”
567. “To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.”
568. “There’s no personal growth to be had by focusing on what others did wrong. ” —Alan Robert Neal
569. “Be healthy and take care of yourself, but be happy with the beautiful things that make you, you.” – Beyonce.
570. “We must fall in love with yourselves. I don’t like myself. I’m crazy about myself. ”
571. “We can’t become what we want to be by remaining what we are. ” – Max DePree
572. “Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.”
573. “Gratitude, compassion, and kindness are pillars to make you a better person. ” — Invajy
574. “The easiest person to deceive is one’s own self.”
575. “Just look at yourself in the mirror and focus on what you need to do to get better.”
576. “Thoughts frame your portrait, action paints it. ” ― Charles F. Glassman
577. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you have imagined. ” — Henry David Thoreau
578. “I dream my painting and then I paint my dream.” - Vincent Van Gogh
579. “When you focus on yourself, and love yourself, some relationships have to go.” ~ Adrian Michael
580. “Your life is controlled by what you focus on. ”
581. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
582. “The health of your brain is much more about your actions than your age. ” —Dr. Daniel Amen
583. “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.”
584. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. ” – Albert Einstein
585. “Start healing your heart and you will look beautiful.” – Alexandra Vasiliu
586. “If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.” Napoleon Hill
587. “Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement. ” ― Anthony J. D’Angelo
588. “Where you hang your feelings is where you hang your focus.”
589. “When you focus on yourself, you create more self-worth.” ~ Nitin Namdeo
590. “Focus on yourself and be positive. ” Anonymous
591. “You are never too old to reinvent yourself.” ~ Steve Harvey
592. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
593. “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.”
594. “If you don’t value yourself, you’re not going to draw valuable things into your life.”
595. “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
596. “The most important relationship you’ll ever have is the one you have with yourself.”
597. “Know your worth. Don’t ask for it. State it once and never accept anything less.” – Unknown
598. “Focus on the benefits, not the difficulties, of attaining your goal. ” —Anonymous
599. “I am thankful for all of those who said no to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself.” – Albert Einstein
600. “We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us. ”
601. “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. ” - Maya Angelou
602. “Do not fear to be your true self, for everything you want, wants you.” - Genevieve Behrend
603. “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.” – Mark Twain
604. “Don’t waste your energy trying to change opinions…Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it. ”
605. “We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.”
606. “The way to gain a good reputation, is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.”
607. “The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits.”
608. “Change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.”
609. “Improvement starts within you and depends on your efforts. So, make the effort. ” ― Remez Sasson
610. “Being a leader is living life on your terms not getting followers. ”
611. “Real change will come when you focus on yourself.”
612. “Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.”
613. “I wish I could make everyone understand how important this statement is: go where you are wanted.” – S. McNutt
614. “Improve in private. Surprise everyone. ” ― Unknown
615. “To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness. ”
616. “Make a success of living by seeing the goal and aiming for it unswervingly.”
617. “Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic.”
618. “People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going.”
619. “A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.”
620. “Enthusiasm spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.”
621. “You must have a level of discontent to feel the urge to want to grow. ” – Idowu Koyenikan
622. “Success will be within your reach only when you start reaching out for it.”
623. “No human being is ever going to love you more than you love yourself. ”
624. “If you don’t value yourself, you’re not going to draw valuable things into your life. ”
625. “If you aren’t making any mistakes, it’s a sure sign you’re playing it too safe.”
626. “Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.”
627. “Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
628. “No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.”
629. “Stay focused on self direction and personal growth and away from finger pointing.” – Nina Atwood
630. “The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.”
631. “Ask yourself if what you’re doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow.” ~ Unknown
632. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” — George Bernard Shaw
633. “Nothing can stop you from being happy except yourself. Focus on positive thoughts.” ~ Lailah Gifty Akita
634. “The power of imagination makes us infinite. ” - John Muir
635. “Your inner strength is your outer foundation. ” – Allan Rufus
636. “In the journey of finding love I focus on having a great relationship with myself first.”
637. “Love yourself. Be clear on how you want to be treated. Know your worth. Always.” – Maryam Hasnaa
638. “If you know what to do to reach your goal, it’s not a big enough goal. ” ― Bob Proctor
639. “Over the years, I’ve learned, focus on the job at hand, and opportunities will open after.”
640. …setting goals is essential when it comes to personal development. Thibaut Meurisse, Goal Setting
641. “Follow your honest convictions, and stay strong.”
642. “When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment. ” – Ryan Reynolds
643. “You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.”
644. “Treat yourself as if you were someone that you are responsible for helping.” ~ Jordan Peterson
645. “I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly. ”
646. “I’ve got a theory that if you give 100% all the time, somehow things will work out in the end. ” - Larry Bird
647. “Behold the turtle. He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out.” James Bryant Conant
648. “Beauty begins the moment you decided to be yourself.” – Coco Chanel
649. “Yes, I am weird, weird is good. Normal is overrated. ”
650. “Where focus goes, energy flows. ” —Tony Robbins
651. “Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.” Author Uunknown
652. “Real change will come when you focus on yourself. ” Ritu Ghatourey
653. “I would like to think that all of my successes in life are really just the fruit of my failures. ” ― Yvie Oddly
654. “I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.”
655. “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
656. “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”
657. “You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
658. “Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are.”
659. “Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”
660. “It’s a beautiful day to say no to almost everything.” – Jack Butcher
661. “Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.” - Earl Nightingale
662. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” — Bruce Lee — Focus Quotes
663. “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. ” - Babe Ruth
664. “Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.”
665. “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
666. “We must fall in love with yourselves. I don’t like myself. I’m crazy about myself.”
667. “Fate and self-help share equally in shaping our destiny.” Indian Proverb
668. “Every moment of one’s existence, one is growing into more or retreating into less. ” ―Norman Mailer
669. “Don’t allow yourself to think that toxic love is the best love you can ever have.” – Khalilah Velez
670. “It is in the deconstruction of ourselves that we begin to build our lives. ” – Delora Argiro OBrien
671. “Insist on yourself. Never imitate.”
672. “The longest journey is the journey inward. ”- Dag Hammarskjold
673. “Our focus is our future and what we focus on will multiply in our life.” — David DeNotaris
674. “The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination. ”
675. “Don’t dream it. Be it!”
676. “Sometimes life is about risking everything for a dream that no one can see except you.” ~ Unknown
677. “Self care is how you take your power back.” – Lalah Delia
678. “What we think, we become. ” ― Buddha
679. “Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things, then it happens to you.”
680. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. ” - Warren Buffett
681. “Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.” – Joseph Campbell
682. “Just look at yourself in the mirror and focus on what you need to do to get better. ”
683. “Never underestimate the fact that loving others is a choice but loving yourself is a responsibility. ”
684. “What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. ” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
685. “Self-love seems so often unrequited. ”
686. “Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do. ”
687. “Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better.”
688. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. ” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
689. “Don’t focus on the competition, focus on ways to make yourself better.” ~ Nopal Green
690. “If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.” – Charles Bukowski
691. “Don’t go expecting Plato’s Republic; be satisfied with even the smallest progress.”
692. “Loving you is the easiest way to do it. ”
693. “Any idea, plan or purpose can be put into my mind through repetition in thought.”
694. “Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person we become.”
695. “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha
696. “Always bear in mind that our own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.”
697. “Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.”
698. “One advantage of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. ”
699. “Always remember, your focus determines your reality. ”
700. “Keep taking time for yourself until you’re you again.” – Lalah Delia
701. “Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go.”
702. “An education is not so much about making a living as making a person. ”― Tara Westover
703. “If you don’t take care of your body, Where then will you live?” - Jim Rohn
704. “Loving yourself isn’t vanity. It’s sanity. ”
705. “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
706. “It’s never too late to be what you might have been.” George Eliot
707. “The mind is just like a muscle – the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand.”
708. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. ” - Amelia Earhart
709. “People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”
710. “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. ” — Aristotle
711. “It’s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.”
712. “In our struggle for freedom, truth is the only weapon we possess. ” – The Dalai Lama
713. “Just look inside you, and you will realize that there is no competition, just life.”
714. “Whatever we think about and thank about, we bring about.”
715. “Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends. ” ― Brian Tracy
716. “If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.”
717. “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. ” - Edith Wharton
718. “Don’t go through life, grow through life. ” - Eric Butterworth
719. “If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old. ” — Lord Chesterfield
720. “You must have a level of discontent to feel the urge to want to grow. ” ― Idowu Koyenikan
721. “What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?”
722. “See it better than it is or you have no future, without vision there is no possibility of improvement. ”
723. “Let us cultivate our garden. ” ― Voltaire, Candide
724. “Focus on you, until the focus is on you. ” Anonymous
725. “A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still. ” — Dale Carnegie
726. “I do not believe in taking the right decision, I take a decision and make it right. ” ― Muhammad Ali Jinnah
727. “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
728. “I love the person I’ve become because I fought to become her.” – Kaci Diane
729. “Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.”
730. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing … that’s why we recommend it daily.”
731. “What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. ” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
732. “Focus on and remind yourself daily of your why.” – Steve Cook
733. “Self-compassion provides the same benefits as high self-esteem without its drawbacks.”
734. “Talent comes from experience and failure. ”
735. “Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.”
736. “I can bounce back from adversity and reinvent my life – it’s possible. ”
737. “Focus on the possibilities for success, not on the potential for failure.” — Napoleon Hill
738. “Other people’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.” - Les Brown
739. “Those at the top of the mountain didn’t fall there.”
740. “Success in life is not for those who run fast, but for those who keep running and always on the move.”
741. “She remembered who she was
742. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” ~ Oscar Wilde
743. “When you shift your attention to yourself, there are countless opportunities to explore. ”
744. “You must have a level of discontent to feel the urge to want to grow.”
745. “When you say ‘yes’ to others make sure you are not saying ‘no’ to yourself.” ~ Paulo Coehlo
746. “You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.”- Diane Von Furstenberg
747. “Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it. ”
748. “Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission. ” – Zig Ziglar
749. “Make yourself a priority. At the end of the day, you’re your longest commitment.” – Unknown
750. “We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.”
751. “I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me. ”
752. “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. ” ― Edith Wharton
753. “Focus on remedies, not faults.”
754. “The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.”
755. “You cannot fix what you will not face. ”
756. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” Theodore Roosevelt
757. “Life is too short to spend another day at war with yourself.” – Rita Ghatourey
758. “No human being is ever going to love you more than you love yourself.”
759. “Choose to put yourself first and make you a priority. It’s not selfish, it’s necessary. ”
760. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.”
761. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ” — Will Durant
762. “Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your inner voice.”
763. “Focus on your opinion of yourself and not the opinion others have of you.” ~ Winnie Harlow
764. “It is never too late to be who you might have been. ” ― George Eliot
765. “We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it. ” ― Rick Warren
766. “And now I’ll do what’s best for me. ” Anonymous
767. “We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.” - Earl Nightingale
768. “Love, connection, and acceptance are your birthright. To claim them you need only look within yourself.”
769. “The dreaming has to be backed up by the doing. ” —Carrie Wilkerson
770. “At the very moment when people underestimate you is when you can make a breakthrough. ”
771. “Every kid, every minority kid can be so successful if they focus on their education.”
772. “If you are going through hell, keep going.”
773. “If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, then make that change. ” ― Michael Jackson
774. “It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.”
775. “If you add the value, you will become the brand. Find a way to add more value than anyone else does. ”
776. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting up every time we do.”
777. “She will rise. With a spine of steel and a roar like thunder, she will rise.” – Nicole Lyons
778. “Life improvement begins with self-improvement. ” ― ATGW
779. “Make happiness your priority and be gentle with yourself in the process.” – Bronnie Ware
780. “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
781. “Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.”
782. “When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn’t healthy.” – Kim McMillen
783. “Repeat anything often enough, and it will start to become you. ” — Tom Hopkin
784. “Be the change you want to see in the world.”
785. “A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”
786. “We can not become what we need to by remaining what we are.” Oprah Winfrey
787. “The only journey is the journey within.”
788. “Talk to yourself like you would someone you love. ”
789. “Progress comes with practice, and practice comes with purpose. Know your “why. ”” – Melissa Steginus
790. “You are of more value than many sparrows.” – Luke 12:7
791. “Be brave to stand for what you believe in even if you stand alone.”
792. “You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.”
793. “Though war break out against me, even then I will be confident.” – Psalm 27:3
794. “Energy and persistence conquer all things.”
795. “Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment. ”
796. “I am both the comforter and the one in need of comfort.”
797. Taking care of yourself helps you stay motivated and focused
798. “The difference between success and mediocrity is all in the way you think.”
799. “Make a pledge to yourself right now, to declare that you are worth your time and energy. ” ― Deborah Day
800. “There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.”
801. “It doesn’t matter what others are doing. It matters what you are doing.”
802. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
803. “Your attitude toward others will always be reflected in their attitude toward you.”
804. “The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
805. “Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”
806. You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously. ― Sophia Bush
807. “The respect you show to others (or lack thereof) is an immediate reflection on your self respect.” – Alex Elle
808. “You can waste your life drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them. ” ― Shonda Rhimes
809. “Loving yourself isn’t vanity. It’s sanity.”
810. “You’re either green and growing, or you’re ripe and rotting. ” — John Addison
811. “Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It’s up to you to choose which you will be.”
812. “Any artist that’s involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do. ”
813. “The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.”
814. “Focus on improving yourself, not proving yourself.”
815. “We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it. ” - Rick Warren
816. “Good things happen when you narrow your focus.”
817. “Your soul will never be fully nourished by anyone’s love but your own.” – Dominee
818. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you’ll be criticized anyway. ”
819. “I praise loudly; I blame softly.”
820. “One must have strategies to execute dreams.”
821. “Follow your dreams with determination and conviction until they become true. — Steven Redhead
822. “Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
823. “Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals. ” —LL Cool J
824. “Only through suffering do you have change and self-improvement. ” — Unknown
825. “Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up. ”
826. “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
827. “If you are really humble you will put yourself first when you need to take care of you.”
828. “Dare to love yourself
829. “If you focus on yourself you will never have time to judge other people. ” Anonymous
830. “The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination. ” – Tommy Lasorda
831. “One of the best ways to elevate your character is to emulate worthy role models.”
832. “The history of the world is the history of a few people who had faith in themselves.”
833. “You don’t need to change the world; you need to change yourself. ” – Don Miguel Ruiz
834. “Improvement starts within you and is dependent on your own efforts. So, make the effort.”
835. “The past has no power over the present moment.”
836. “I will never apologize for being me, but I will apologize for the times that I am not.” – Michael Carini
837. “Be healthy and take care of yourself, but be happy with the beautiful things that make you, you.”
838. “When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.”
839. “How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.” – Rupi Kaur
840. “The only thing I’m focused on right now is bettering myself. ” Anonymous
841. “Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.”
842. “Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.”
843. “Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone’s notable achievements.”
844. “Our essential nature is one of pure potentiality. ”
845. “It’s not about having enough time, it’s about making enough time.”
846. “Never say never because limits, like fears are often just an illusion.” – Michael Jordan
847. “If you have the ability to love, love yourself first. ”
848. “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
849. “What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.”
850. “If you are really humble you will put yourself first when you need to take care of you. ”
851. “Don’t go through life, grow through life. ” ― Eric Butterworth
852. “People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. ” ― Rob Siltanen
853. “It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.”
854. “Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.”
855. “The more you are like yourself, the less you are like someone else, which makes you unique.”
856. “Always remember, your focus determines your reality.” — George Lucas
857. “Be the love you never received.” – Rune Lazuli
858. “Give yourself the love you’re willing to give to others.” – Mahin Ismail
859. “My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused in on a few things.”
860. “Don’t ever compare yourself to others. Stay focused on your own journey and leave footprints behind.”
861. “Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own.” — Bruce Lee
862. “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. ” — Jimmy Johnson
863. “Perfection does not exist – you can always do better and you can always grow. ”
864. “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
865. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
866. “Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are.”
867. “The things that make me different are the things that make me me.”
868. “Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.”
869. “The greatest investment you’ll ever make is investing in you. ”― Wesam Fawzi
870. “In order to love who you are, you cannot hate the experiences that shaped you.” – Andrea Dykstra
871. “To live happily is an inward power of the soul.”
872. “Love yourself so much that when someone treats you wrong, you recognize it.” – Rena Rose
873. “By doing the work to love ourselves more, I believe we will love each other better. ” ― Laverne Cox
874. “I don’t focus on what I’m up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.” — Venus Williams
875. “You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them. ” - Shonda Rhimes
876. “With self-discipline most anything is possible. ” - Theodore Roosevelt
877. “Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.”
878. “Permit yourself to change your mind when something is no longer working for you. ” ― Nedra Glover Tawwab
879. “It is never too late to be what you might have been. ”
880. “Give your life purpose and focus. Position yourself to succeed.” – Karen Waddell
881. “Self confidence is a super power. Once you start to believe in yourself, magic starts happening.” – Unknown
882. “The mind is just like a muscle - the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand.”
883. “People can cry much easier than they can change. ”
884. “It’s not your job to like me…it’s mine!”
885. “How to be successful: Focus on your own life. ” Anonymous
886. “Stay focused on whatever you want to do and don’t doubt yourself. ” Anonymous
887. “A man who finds no satisfaction in himself will seek for it in vain elsewhere.”
888. “The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.”
889. “It is never too late to be who you might have been. ” - George Eliot
890. “I want to grow. I want to be better. You Grow. We all grow. We’re made to grow. ” – Tupac Shakur
891. “The more you are like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique. ” – Walt Disney
892. “Be loud about the things that are important to you.” – Karen Walrond
893. “I am, indeed, a king because I know how to rule myself.” – Pietro Aretino
894. “How hurtful it can be to deny one's true self and live a life of lies just to appease others.”
895. “Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.” – Joshua 1:9
896. “Focus on you until the focus is on you.” ~ Unknown
897. “A good criterion for measuring success in life is the number of people you have made happy.”
898. “What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.”
899. “Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.”
900. “Ability may take you to the top, but it takes character to stay there.”
901. “It only takes one person to change your life ― you. ” ― Ruth Casey
902. “Focus on yourself. No one can do it better.” ~ Unknown
903. “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always be where you’ve always been. ” —T. D. Jakes
904. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
905. “It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe. ” – Muhammad Ali
906. “Doubt me, hate me, you’re the inspiration I need.” – Anonymous
907. “The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.”
908. “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.”-Dalai Lama.
909. “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. ” — Carl R. Rogers
910. “Discovering what you really want saves you endless confusion and wasted energy.”
911. “You are enough just as you are. ”
912. “Your task is to stand straight; not to be held straight.”
913. “When you say ‘yes’ to others make sure you are not saying ‘no’ to yourself.” – Paulo Coelho
914. “When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.”
915. “If you’re searching for that one person that will change your life, take a look in the mirror.” – Roman Price
916. “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.”
917. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” ~ George Elliot
918. “Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.” – Eleanor Brown
919. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.” - Aristotle
920. “Focus on making yourself better, not thinking that you are better.”
921. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln.
922. “We see the world, not as it is, but as we are.”
923. “Absorb What Is Useful, Discard What Is Not, Add What Is Uniquely Your Own.”
924. “It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.”
925. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
926. “I’ve never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.”
927. “To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.” – Robert Morely
928. “I can do nothing for you but work on myself… you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!”
929. “ Associate with people who are likely to improve you.”
930. “What you dislike in another, take care to correct in yourself. ” — Thomas Sprat
931. “What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside you.” Wayne Dyer
932. “Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.” – Maya Angelou
933. “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
934. Take action and believe in yourself. Dreams do come true
935. “You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. ” —Mark Twain
936. “People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. ” - Rob Siltanen
937. “No one saves us but ourselves / No one can and no one may.”
938. “Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth.”
939. “Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.”
940. “You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.”
941. “Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love.” – Miguel Angel Ruiz
942. “Do things that make you feel good: mind, body, and soul.” – Robyn Conley Downs
943. “Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better.” – Bohdi Sanders
944. “The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.”
945. “Put yourself first and everyone benefits”- Jim Karas
946. “Don’t go back to less just because you’re too impatient to wait for better.” – Unknown
947. “You were born to be real, not to be perfect. ”
948. “We can’t become what we need to be by remaining what we are. ” - Oprah Winfrey
949. “If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.”
950. “There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth — not going all the way, and not starting.”
951. “The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance. ” —Oprah Winfrey
952. “Know what matters most to you and be unwilling to compromise those priorities at almost any price. ”
953. “To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.”
954. “There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.”
955. “Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.”
956. “To accept oneself completely is to know the truest kind of self-love.” – Anonymous
957. “I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.”
958. “Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.” – Maya Angelou.
959. “We are affected by what we know so get the information. Don’t be lazy in learning. ”
960. “Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. ”
961. “If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.” – Dr. Maya Angelou
962. “There’s always room for improvement. ” — Joey Logano
963. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. ”
964. “Tis’ better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else’s perfectly.”
965. “The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.”
966. “We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.”
967. “Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.” – Brené Brown
968. “Let us cultivate our garden.”
969. “Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy. ”
970. “Investing in your own growth and self-development isn’t selfish. It’s self-care. ” ― Dr. Eric Weis
971. “You are struggling with the walls of resistance that you have built around yourself. ” — Sadhguru
972. “Is is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.”
973. “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” - Albert Einstein
974. “Always remember, your focus determines your reality.” ~ George Lucas
975. “If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.”
976. “The secret of success is consistency of purpose.”
977. “The Golden Rule is a two-way street: we should do unto ourselves as we do unto others.” – Rick Hanson
978. “Starve your distractions. Feed your focus.”
979. “The greatest gift you can give to somebody is your own personal development. ” – Jim Rohn
980. “When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment. ”
981. “Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.”
982. “Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.”
983. “The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.”
984. “To give ourselves compassion, we first have to recognize that we are suffering.”
985. “To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.”
986. “Accept who you are. Unless you’re a serial killer.” – Ellen DeGeneres.
987. “Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.”
988. “We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.”
989. “Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still. ” - Chinese Proverb
990. “Know who you are, and be it. Know what you want, and go out and get it!” – Carroll Bryant
991. “Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.”
992. “It is your attitude, not your aptitude, that determines your altitude.”
993. “What we do now echoes in eternity.” – Marcus Aurelius
994. “I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”
995. “I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.”
996. “Live out your imagination, not your history.”
997. “Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead. ” ―Morihei Ueshiba
998. “The more you focus on you, the better you become. ” Doe Zantamata
999. “The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.”
1000. “The world has slowed so you can rediscover yourself.” – Unknown