Why You Need To Think For Yourself

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“To find yourself, think for yourself.”- Socrates

Don’t worry about what other people are saying about you. They are irrelevant. What really counts is what you think about yourself. How you see yourself. What you say to yourself. Yes, it is okay to listen to people (good and bad people), but don’t let what they are saying about you engulf or prevents you from enjoying your life.

Think for yourself. Make your own critical decisions. Don’t delegate your personal decisions to anyone. They are not qualified to handle them. The only person who is ready to handle your personal decision is YOU.

Remember, no matter what you do (good or bad), people will always have negative or positive things to say about you. Don’t let that distract you. Don’t let that prevent you from enjoying yourself. Don’t let that hold you back from achieving your dreams.

You must think for yourself. If you want happiness in your life, you must think for yourself. If you want to grow, you must learn to think for yourself. If you want to build positive relationships, you must think for yourself. If you want to change your life, you must think for yourself. If you don’t, people will think for you. And when they do, you are not going to be happy with what you will get. But you can change it by thinking for yourself. It requires confidence. It requires courage. It requires hope. It requires compassion. It requires focus.

Focus on your own business. Focus on your life. It matters. It is all you have.  Stay away from people who want to tear you down. To do that, you must be able to think for yourself.

16 Uplifting Samuel Johnson Quotes On How To Gain Confidence In Life

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Confidence is the key to success. It is what you need to break barriers in your life. It is what you need to take great action. If you don’t believe in yourself, don’t give up. It takes time to build self-confidence. According to E.E. Cummings, “Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or experience that reveals the human spirit.” And if you want to do it, try to do something that really scares you.

Here are 16 uplifting quotes that will help build your own self-confidence:

“The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.”- Samuel Johnson

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.”- Samuel Johnson

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.”- Samuel Johnson

“Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.”-

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“A man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.”- Samuel Johnson

“All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.“- Samuel Johnson

“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.”- Samuel Johnson

“Attack is the reaction; I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.”- Samuel Johnson

“A man of genius has been seldom ruined by himself.”- Samuel Johnson

“Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.”- Samuel Johnson

“Hope is itself a species of happiness…”- Samuel Johnson

Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.”- Samuel Johnson

“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.”- Samuel Johnson

“The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something to-morrow which I never saw before.”- Samuel Johnson

“Nothing… will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.”- Samuel Johnson

“Hope is necessary in every condition.“- Samuel Johnson