Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
Oprah Winfrey

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
Oprah Winfrey

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

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

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

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

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

One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn' t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
Lucille Ball

I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
Lucille Ball

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
Plutarch

Neither blame or praise yourself.
Plutarch

It's all false pressure; you put the heat on yourself, you get it from the networks and record companies and movie studios. You put more pressure on yourself to make everything that much harder.
John Belushi

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