Being honest with yourself is the highest form of self-respect. If you're not feeling something, don't do it.

DailyZen

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

Albert Einstein

Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be; if you think yourself strong, strong you will be.

Swami Vivekananda

A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.

Ramsey Clark

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

Zora Neale Hurston

Be honest about where you are at so that you can get to where you want to be.

Joyce Meyer