Lao-tzu

He who overcomes others has force; he who overcomes himself is strong.

Topic: Self, Strength
Location: Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin

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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

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Confidence Self

Action Expectations

New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings. — Lao-tzu

Adversity Change Pain

When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

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Affirmation Destiny

Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her. — Lao-tzu

Acceptance Belief Self

One who believes in himself has no need to convince others.

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Belief Confidence Persuasion

He who does not trust enough, will not be trusted.

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Trust

When there is silence one finds the anchor of the universe within oneself.

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Listening Self

Leadership

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My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. — Thomas Paine

Freedom Purpose Solitude

Adversity Misfortune Mistakes

We lost because we told ourselves we lost. — Leo Tolstoy

Affirmation Belief Communication

Better to suffer than to die: that is mankind’s motto. — Jean de La Fontaine

Goals Preparation Purpose Service Society Time

You're never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. — C. S. Lewis

Goals

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To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Acceptance Self

In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

› Viktor Frankl

Life Responsibility Self

Man's mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. — Oliver Wendell Holmes

Awareness Perception Self Thinking

There is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it. — George Eliot

Power Self Society Strength

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

› Carl Jung

Awareness Knowledge Self

Only when he has ceased to need things can a man truly be his own master and so really exist. — Anwar Sadat

Self

A man would rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be known. — Samuel Johnson

Honesty Self Truth

Confidence is unleashed as soon as you begin to trust your self. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Confidence Self Solitude Trust

Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves. — Nathaniel Branden

Reputation Self Self-esteem

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. — Mohandas Gandhi

Customer Service Discovery Self Service

I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me. — Anwar Sadat

Self Self-esteem

Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. — William James

Action Self

I respect my boundaries. I insist that others respect them, too. — Louise L. Hay

Respect Self

Acceptance Belief Self

In reading lives of great people, I found the first victory won was over themselves.

› Harry Truman

Self Victory

No man can become the master of anything or anyone until he becomes the master of his own ego. — Napoleon Hill

Leadership Self

He who knows others is wise; He that knows himself is enlightened. — Lao-tzu

Awareness Life Perception Self Wisdom

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. — Oscar Wilde

Love Self Self-esteem

Laugh at yourself, not in ridicule but with objectivity and acceptance of self. — C. W. Metcalf

Acceptance Confidence Laughter Self

Who you define yourself as wins. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Confidence Courage Self Self-esteem

It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

› Thomas Sowell

Intelligence Self Thinking

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks about changing him or herself. — Leo Tolstoy

Change Self Thinking

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Goals Purpose Self Self-esteem Society

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. — George Bernard Shaw

Integrity Self

If we all can persevere, if we can in every land and office look beyond our own shores and ambitions, then surely the age will dawn in which the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved.

› John F. Kennedy

Ambition Freedom Perseverance Strength

I came, I saw, I conquered. — Julius Caesar

Strength

Action Courage Decision Strength

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one. — Bruce Lee

Prayer Strength

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

› John Ruskin

Society Strength

Old age is no place for sissies.

› Bette Davis

Adventure Adversity Age Strength

You have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. — Harriet Tubman

Change Passion Patience Strength

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. — Abraham Lincoln

Character Justice Leadership Strength

Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.

› Ann Landers

Acceptance Belief Strength

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

› Kahlil Gibran

Kindness Strength