Jamie Kern Lima Quotes

Self-confidence is the belief in your abilities as a person. Self-worth is the belief in your value as a person.

BEING VULNERABLE IS hard, but I’ve learned that sharing our true, flawed, authentic selves is the only way real connection and love can happen. It’s the only way to step into our full power and purpose in our lives.

One day the people who never believed in you will talk about how they met you. —ANONYMOUS

we just didn’t know what we didn’t know at the time. Sometimes those no’s are actually serendipitous grace, wrapped in a package labeled painful rejection.

In life it’s not our experiences that make us unique, it’s our response to those experiences.

It’s been said many times that you are the culmination of the five or so people you spend the most time with. Think about that for a moment. Aside from your kiddos, of course, if you’re a parent, who are the five or so people you see or talk to most often? Do they sharpen you and help you reach your full potential and live your best life? Do they love you well and inspire you to love greater?

Reshma Saujani, in her book Brave, Not Perfect, writes, “We’ve become conditioned to compromise and shrink ourselves in order to be liked. The problem is, when you work so hard to get everyone to like you, you very often end up not liking yourself so much.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. —PAULO COELHO

I wasn’t there to compete with them. I was there to compete with what God made me capable of.

You can’t fake authenticity.

You didn’t come this far to only come this far. —ANONYMOUS

When you know an employee is toxic to your culture, get rid of them right away. Otherwise, that toxicity will spread in your culture and take over, infecting others.

In life it’s not our experiences that make us unique, it’s our response to those experiences. And to the uncertainty they immerse us in. Where you come from doesn’t have to determine where you’re going, but it definitely shapes the foundation you have to build on.

How we react to times of uncertainty, and whether we make decisions based in love or fear, can change the course of our life. Champions aren’t made when the game is easy. In any area of life.

Make peace with your broken pieces. —R. H. SIN

You’ve always had the power, my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself. —GLINDA THE GOOD WITCH, THE WIZARD OF OZ

You don’t become what you want. You can have the greatest heart desire, and really work so hard, so hard, so hard. But if you don’t believe you are worthy, it will not come. That is the magic formula.