„I was blessed with a sense of my own destiny. I have never sold myself short. I have never judged myself by other people’s standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself.“

— Sophia Loren

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„My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.“
— James Brown
„April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of myself. Apathetic, witless, fearful. I have nothing to say to anyone - never.“
— Franz Kafka
„Let them fail; let everybody fail! I made my fortune when I had nothing to start with, by myself and my own ideas. Let other people do the same thing. If I lose everything in the collapse of our financial structure, I will start in at the beginning and build it up again.“
— Henry Ford
„If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.“
— Audre Lorde