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Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be.

— Swami Vivekananda
Self & Identity Wisdom

I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.

— William Ernest Henley
Self & Identity Courage & Strength

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

— A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Self & Identity Life

The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper performance of one's duties in life.

— Rabindranath Tagore
Self & Identity Wisdom

बुरा जो देखन मैं चला, बुरा न मिलिया कोय। जो मन खोजा आपना, मुझसे बुरा न कोय।

— कबीर Hindi
Self & Identity Wisdom

जब मैं था तब हरि नहीं, अब हरि हैं मैं नाहिं। सब अँधियारा मिट गया, जब दीपक देख्या माहिं।

— कबीर Hindi
Self & Identity Faith & Religion

Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.

— Judy Garland
Self & Identity

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
Self & Identity Life

Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!

— Mark A. Cooper
Self & Identity Inspirational Life Positive Thinking

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

— Mahatma Gandhi
Self & Identity Courage & Strength Positive Thinking

Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself.

— Roy T. Bennett
Self & Identity Inspirational Life Faith & Religion Positive Thinking

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self & Identity

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

— Bruce Lee
Self & Identity Wisdom

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

— Friedrich Nietzsche
Self & Identity

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters

— Albert Einstein
Self & Identity Truth

World quotes adapted from the Abirate/english_quotes dataset (CC BY 4.0). Indian-figure and Hindi/Urdu quotes are a curated compilation of widely-attributed public sayings.