Argue for your limitations and you get to keep them. You deserve better and should acknowledge that you are capable of doing what anyone else can. How you perceive yourself becomes a massive part of how others will perceive you meaning you're not beneath anyone unless you put yourself there.

IllusionsRichard Bach

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. It's the willingness to push beyond the boundaries of your comfort zone, to keep going when others would quit, that ultimately defines success.

On Write: A memoir of the CraftStephen King

Do you really have time to be looking down; Nothing is stopping you from taking the next step. People who work hard won’t always succeed but the people who succeed always work hard.

HaiykuuHaruichi Furudate

People declare themselves experts, entrepreneurs, inventors, innovaters, mavericks, and coaches without any real-life experience. And they do this not because they actually think they are greater than everybody else; they do it because they feel that they need to be great to be accepted in a world that broadcasts only the extraordinary. The key to a good life is not giving a fk about more; it's giving a fk about less, giving a fk about only what is true and immediate and important.

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a FckMark Manson

It’s terrifying how easy it is to lose yourself in the idea of being what other people want you to be. The hardest thing is to keep hold of who you are in the face of all the expectations, all the noise.

An Absolutely Remarkable ThingHank Green