How would your life change if your self-esteem improved? ~ Caroline Myss, Self Esteem: Your Fundamental Power, 2002
Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent. ~ Sophia Loren, Official Website
You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it. ~ Barbra Streisand
Never follow the crowd. ~ Bernard M. Baruch
I never stop to wonder why I'm not like other people. They mystery to me is why more people aren't like me. ~ Florynce Kennedy
Take your work seriously, but never yourself. ~ Dame Margot Fonteyn
Love yourself. Respect yourself. Never sell yourself short. Believe in yourself regardless of what people think. You can accomplish anything, absolutely anything, if you set your mind to it. ~ Marcus Allen, Kids' Little Instruction Book, 1996
Should we say the self, once perceived, becomes the soul? ~ Theodore Roethke
A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Accept no one’s definition of your life; but rather define yourself. ~ Harvey Fierstein
You will make a lousy anybody else, but you are the best you in existence. You are the only one who can use your ability. It is an awesome responsibility. ~ Zig Ziglar
You too are a work of art. ~ Bernie S. Siegel