"There comes a time when you have to stand up and shout: THis is me damn it! I look the way I look, think the way I think, feel the way I feel, love the way I love! I am a whole complex package. Take me - or leave me. Accept me - or walk away! Do not try to make me feel like less of a person, just because I don't fit your idea of who I should be and don't try to change me to fit your mold. If I need to change, I alone will make that decision.
When you are strong enough to love yourself 100%, good and bad - you will be amazed at the opportunities that life presents you".
- Stacey Charter
"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent".
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Be yourself, don't take anyone's shit, and never let them take you alive".
- Gerard Way
"It's not your job to like me - it's mine".
- Byron, Katie
"Love yourself, for if you don't, how can you expect anybody else to love you".
- Unknown
"Only as high as I reach can I grow,
Only as far as I seek can I go,
Only as deep as I look can I see,
Only as much as I dream can I be".
- Karen Ravn
"It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not".
- Unknown
"The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do".
- Unknown
"We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies".
- Roderick Thorp, Rainbow Drive
"Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality".
- Les Brown
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself".
- Harvey Fierstein
"If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you fun into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it".
- Michael Jordan
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today".
- William Allen White
"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure".
- George Edward Woodberry
"Believe you can and you're halfway there".
- Theodore Roosevelt
"Change your thoughts and you change your world".
- Norman Vincent Peale
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail".
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings".
- Ralph Blum
"I truly believe that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we want to live. I have seen it happen time and time again".
- Gillian Anderson
"A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do".
- Unknown
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty".
- Sir Winston Churchill
"Adversity brings knowledge, and knowledge wisdom".
- Welsh Proverb
"If you can dream it, you can do it".
- Walt Disney
"Leap, and the net will appear".
- John Burroughs
"Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now".
- Denis Waitley
"Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realise that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way".
- Eileen Caddy
"The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself".
- Mark Caine
"What you do today can improve all your tomorrows".
- Ralph Marston
"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact".
- William James