Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it
Adams, James Truslow

We visit others as a matter of social obligation. How long has it been since we have visited with ourselves?
Adler, Morris

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself
Alda, Alan

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not
Amiel, Henri-Frederic

When an archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself.  Failure to hit the bull’s-eye is never the fault of the target.  To improve your aim, improve yourself
Arland, Gilbert

Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery
Arnold, Matthew

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as you mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.
Ash, Mary Kay

Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway.
Ash, Mary Kay

There is no saint without a past, and no sinner without a future.
Babaji, Shri Haidakhan

We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, someone with a wizard's power to melt stone to sunlight, who can bring us happiness in spite of trials, who can face our dragons in the night, who can transform us into the soul we choose to be. Just yesterday I found that magical Someone is the face we see in the mirror: It's us and our homemade masks
Bach, Richard

Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours.
Bach, Richard

No man is such a conqueror as the man who has defeated himself.
Beecher, Henry Ward

We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin
Berthiaume, André

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
Boetcker, William J. H

He who knows himself best esteems himself least
Bohn, Henry George

The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

An example from the monkey: The higher it climbs, the more you see of its behind.
Bonaventure, Saint

They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.
Bovee, Christian Nestell

The tragedy is that so many people look for self-confidence and self-respect everywhere except within themselves, and so they fail in their search
Branden, Dr Nathaniel

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?
Brice, Fanny

Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.
Brooks, Van Wyck

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
Brown, Les

Only those who haven't got the wit to speak for themselves would ever want their clothes to do it for them.
Burchill, Julie

There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.
Chesterfield, Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of

We are all worms. I believe I am a gloworm.
Churchill, Sir Winston Leonard Spencer