W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

Say yes to your self. Say no to your anti-self.

My care is for myself; Myself am whole and sole reality.

I'm not better than anyone, and I'm not trying to convince people to live by my standards of what's right. I'm trying to convince them to live by their own.

In the end they'll judge me anyway, so whatever.

I've put up with too much, too long, and now I'm just too intelligent, too powerful, too beautiful, too sure of who I am finally to deserve anything less.

People have been telling me I'm a failure and that I'm doing it all wrong for 20 years now. Never trust anybody when they tell you how your story goes. You know your story. You write your own story.

My mind is my own church.

You kind of create your own moral universe. It's like, well, I like myself. If other people don't like me, then whatever. I'm out of here.

If somebody judges me, then they're not my people, and that's all right.

I have a very good relationship with myself. My favourite quote is, "What you think about me is none of my business."

You can't please everyone, so proudly exclude people.

The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.

How can you blame others for disrespecting you when you think of yourself as unworthy of respect?

Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.

Lift your head up high, and scream to the world. I know I am someone, and let the truth unfurl.

I must not be selfless: develop a sense of self. A solidness that can't be attacked.

Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.

It takes years as a woman to unlearn what you have been taught to be sorry for.

If we continue to devalue ourselves we cannot realistically expect respect from others.

If it is something that is right for human beings, then I don't care if other people criticize. You cannot please everyone in the world.

You have to stand up and say, 'There's nothing wrong with me or my shape or who I am; you're the one with the problem!'

What other people think of me is none of my business. One of the highest places you can get to is being independent of the good opinions of other people.

Standing in our power requires us to let go of the need to make others like us & instead stand committed to honoring ourselves.

Learn to trust yourself. That's very vital. ... Just stand with yourself. Remember, in his lifetime, Van Gogh sold only two paintings. I personally sold even fewer.

The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other.