I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.” 
― Charlotte Brontë


“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.” 
― Michel de Montaigne

“We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.” 
― Jane Austen


“Never let the thoughts of self-unworthiness re-arrange your prepared passion for failure. You can do it even if others say you can't. But you cannot do it if you tell yourself you can't.” 
― Israelmore Ayivor