Blaise Pascal Quotes

Bring the child to the consciousness of his own dignity and he will feel free.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

If you're taking care of yourself, then what can somebody else tell you?

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

I really don't mind what people assume about me. I really think that my brain is my private thing. I don't need the approval of people. I don't need people to think I'm intelligent. And I'm not that intelligent.

My mind's my kingdom.

Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever.

I know what I can do so it doesn't bother me what other people think or their opinion on the situation.

Unlike a lot of people, I don't need the affirmation or anything.

No matter what happens to you, you can maintain your own control about what you believe and who you are.

There will always be some people who think for themselves, even among the self-appointed guardians of the great mass who, after having thrown off the yoke of immaturity themselves, will spread about them the spirit of a reasonable estimate of their own value and of the need for every man to think for himself.

I feel a little stronger than people perceive me.

I made a decision as a child that I would never let anyone tell me that I was invalid or inauthentic, or that my experiences were.

Nothing in your past is in your present making you do anything you don't choose to do. You are not your past history! You are not your past failures! You are not how others have at one time treated you! You are only who you are and what you do now in this moment.

You can never satisfy other people, I learned. End of the day, it's extremely important that you know yourself better than anybody else, and if you can do that, it doesn't matter what anybody thinks about you, good or bad.

It takes a lot for you to find your confidence, but you shouldn't let someone else be the person to find it for you.

I couldn't care what people are saying or not saying because I have my own life. I know who I am, I know who is Joanna Jedrzecjzyk. And I know who I want to be.

I just want people to understand that regardless of what it is that you do - whether you're a teacher, whether you are a doctor, a single mother, a college student, a big sister - that you have strength within you, and I want people to be inspired to walk in their own superhero regardless of what it is that they do.

I've just never really gotten caught up in what people think about me, because I can't control that.

At the end of the day, the way I go about it is don't let somebody else's opinion of you define who you are. Don't let other people's thoughts or whatever it is be true.

Never let anyone make you feel inferior for being who you are. When you live the life you were meant to live, in freedom and dignity

Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet.

To assign unanswered letters their proper weight, to free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, the singular power of self-respect. Without it, one eventually discovers the final turn of the screw: one runs away to find oneself, and finds no one at home.

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.

Self-esteem is the result of recognizing our personal power; awe and wonder come from recognizing our lack of it. Both are true, and in an exceptional life there is no conflict between them.