Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.
Swami Vivekananda

You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.
Mel Brooks

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
Charles Spurgeon

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
Epictetus

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
Epictetus

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Epictetus

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
Epictetus

Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.
Epictetus

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Epictetus

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
Alan Watts

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
Alan Watts

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
Alan Watts

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.
Marianne Williamson

Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse.
Albert Ellis

You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.
James A. Baldwin

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
Rainer Maria Rilke