Flannery O'Connor Quotes

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.

I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad.

When you do your best you learn to accept yourself

Every day you must try to make your own self-image grow; this you can do.

You look at yourself and you accept yourself for who you are, and once you accept yourself for who you are you become a better person.

I like this idea of becoming fully realised.

I'm happy with the man I'm becoming.

I just want to figure out me and grow within myself.

Everything you do tends to make you accomplish another step on the road to complete yourself.

Improving yourself is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others.

So i learned both to accept myself and to aim beyond myself

The greatest step toward success is self confidence. The greatest builder of self confidence is self esteem, and self esteem comes from doing the daily things you know you should do. Your self esteem will start to soar when you make some critical decisions - decisions to walk a new road, to start a new direction, to start a new discipline.

Love yourself and watch - Today, tomorrow, always. To straighten the crooked You must first do a harder thing - Straighten yourself.

Love yourself. KNOW thyself. And be mindful of your thoughts.

Love and respect yourself and never compromise for anything. And then you will be surprised how much growth starts happening of its own accord.. as if rocks have been removed and the river has started flowing.

Loving yourself has nothing to do with being selfish, self-centered or self-engrossed. It means that you accept yourself for what you are. Loving yourself means that you accept responsibility for your own development, growth and happiness.

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.

I don't want to be better than you or her or him - I want to be better than I am right now

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

When you're younger, you think you're in competition with everyone. You think everyone's success is a threat to you, and this is a thing you grow out of. You get older and you suddenly realize the only person you're in competition with is yourself.

Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.

It really is the relationship you have with your self that presents the key to the “kingdom”, so to speak... Fighting is good, but not when it is fighting yourself. Changing the world is good but first one has to start inside and concurrently make that place right. The strife and the ugliness in the world is the outward manifestation of this troubled relationship we have within on a whole.

Love yourself and realize that whatever you attempt to achieve in Life is a direct reflection of you.

Do you. Just focus on being the best version of yourself that you can be every day, and don't compare yourself to anyone else or worry about what they're doing.

Each of you is perfect the way you are ... and you can use a little improvement.