#self

Some are young people who don't know who they are, what they can be or even want to be. They are afraid, but they don't know of what. They are angry, but they don't know at whom. They are rejected and they don't know why. All they want is to be somebody. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#self #teenagers #youth #leadership

Under a bad leadership Serbs are capable of committing the most terrible atrocities; under good leaders we can do great deeds. It's like a field - if it's not cared for, the weeds will take over. But if you tend it, water and feed the seeds, you will read a bountiful harvest. Serbs are lazy, we lack discipline and have no capacity for self-criticism." With Their Backs to the World ↗

— Åsne Seierstad

#leadership #self-criticism #serbs #leadership

Leaders are not known by their positions; they are known by their roles in those position. You have many gifts as a leader, but your dominant gift is what you will use to lead. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#dominant #dominant-gift #dominate #dominion #food-for-thought

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#amuse #children #instruction #like #live

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. ↗

— May Sarton

#frightening #however #may #ourselves #prove

If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#life #self-determination #life

He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#identity #life #self #life

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#self-actualization #unrealized-potential #life

If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it? ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#image #self-image #life

Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#self-determination #life