Personal Growth Quotes 101 Not Caring Quotes To Boost Your Self-Esteem And Confidence 37 min read 9 2,897 A collection of amazing not caring quotes that will teach you to stop seeking approval, stop caring so much about what others people think about you, stop worrying about the small things and start living a happier and richer life. 1. Before you ask yourself WHY someone hates you, ask yourself why you even care what they think. 2. If you are willing to look at another person’s behavior toward you as a reflection of the state of their relationship with themselves rather than a statement about your value as a person, then you will, over a period of time cease to react at all. – Yogi Bhajan 3. It takes courage to be different. It takes courage to not compromise. People will try to make you feel weak because you don’t go with the majority. The truth is you’re not weak, you’re strong. – Joel Osteen 4. There’s always going to be something that can bother you, if you let it. ― Michael A. Singer 5. Your destiny is too important to spend it with people that are not making you better. Who are you allowing to influence you? Are they inspiring you, challenging you, pushing you forward? – Joel Osteen 6. Let other people’s comments of you wash right off. Their opinions belong to them, not you. Don’t bring it into your self-concept. ― Simeon Lindstrom 7. Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny. ― Steve Maraboli 8. Confidence is not: “They will like me”. Confidence is: “I’ll be fine if they don’t”. 9. Don’t ruin a good today by thinking about a bad yesterday. Let it go. 10. Do not let anything that happens in life be important enough that you’re willing to close your heart over it. ― Michael A. Singer 11. Sometimes the people closest to you will be the least supportive. Here’s the key: don’t get distracted fighting battles that don’t matter, trying to prove to them who you are, trying to convince them to like you. You don’t need their approval; you have Almighty God’s approval. – Joel Osteen 12. If you want to be happy, you have to let go of the part of you that wants to create melodrama. ― Michael A. Singer 13. When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness. ― Dale Carnegie 14. Don’t let the expectations and opinions of other people affect your decisions. It’s your life, not theirs. Do what matters most to you; do what makes you feel alive and happy. ― Roy T. Bennett 15.Worrying won’t stop the bad stuff from happening. It just stops you from enjoying the good. 16.We fight too many battles that don’t matter. If that battle is not between you and your destiny, then it’s a distraction. You have to learn to let things go. 17. People treat you with as much, or as little respect as you allow them to. ― Rachel Hollis 18. Life is too short to live at odds, contentious, arguing over things that don’t matter. Be an eagle and rise above it. – Joel Osteen 19. Our job is not to control life. Our job is to experience it fully. ― Henri Junttila 20. We fight too many battles that don’t matter. If that battle is not between you and your destiny, then it’s a distraction. You have to learn to let things go. – Joel Osteen 21. When you’re 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you’re 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you’re 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life. — Winston Churchill 22. Some things are better left unsaid. You don’t have to win every argument or comment on every situation. Just bite your tongue and let it go. 23. It takes courage to be different. It takes courage to not compromise. People will try to make you feel weak because you don’t go with the majority. The truth is you’re not weak, you’re strong. 24. Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others– it only changes yours.” ― Shannon L. Alder 25. It’s entirely within our power to determine how we think about and talk about our problems. They can be a nuisance or a stepping stone. They can hold us down or lift us up. ― Gary John Bishop 26. Some things are better left unsaid. You don’t have to win every argument or comment on every situation. Just bite your tongue and let it go. – Joel Osteen 27. There is no shame in expressing your authentic feelings. Those who are at times described as being a ‘hot mess’ or having ‘too many issues’ are the very fabric of what keeps the dream alive for a more caring, humane world. Never be ashamed to let your tears shine a light in this world. ― Anthon St. Maarten 28. There is nothing more beautiful than seeing a person being themselves. Imagine going through your day being unapologetically you. ― Steve Maraboli 29. Love people, use things, because the opposite never works. 30. Be yourself! Everyone else is already taken. – Oscar Wilde 31. I put zero weight into anyone’s opinion about me because I know exactly who I am. ― Gary Vaynerchuk 32. Your opinion of me is none of my business. ― Judy Ford 33. You and everyone you know are going to be dead soon. And in the short amount of time between here and there, you have a limited amount of fucks to give. Very few, in fact. And if you go around giving a fuck about everything and everyone without conscious thought or choice—well, then you’re going to get fucked. ― Mark Manson 34. Don’t let the expectations and ideas of others limit who you are. If you let others tell you who you are, you are living their reality — not yours. ― Roy T. Bennett 35. To try to avoid pain is to give too many fucks about pain. In contrast, if you’re able to not give a fuck about the pain, you become unstoppable. ― Mark Manson 36. Let them judge you. Let them misunderstand you. Let them gossip about you. Their opinions aren’t your problems. You stay kind, committed to love, and free in your authenticity. No matter what they do or say. Don’t you dare doubt your worth or the beauty of your truth. Just keep shining like you do. 37. Reminder: Your most important relationship is with YOURSELF. 38. What other people think about you has nothing to do with you and everything to do with them. ― Jen Sincero 39. Everything worthwhile in life is won through surmounting the associated negative experience. Any attempt to escape the negative, to avoid it or quash it or silence it, only backfires. The avoidance of suffering is a form of suffering. The avoidance of struggle is a struggle. The denial of failure is a failure. Hiding what is shameful is itself a form of shame. ― Mark Manson 40. It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it. ― Dale Carnegie 41. You must first accept that while there are things that have happened in your life that you had no say in, you are 100 percent responsible for what you do with your life in the aftermath of those events. Always, every time, no excuses. ― Gary John Bishop 42. This is the most simple and basic component of life: our struggles determine our successes. ― Mark Manson 43. Always believe in yourself and never give up. 44. You can’t take life too seriously. At the end of the day, no matter how badly you mess up or how gloriously you succeed, we’re all headed to the same place. – Andrew Ferebee 45. Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. ― Dale Carnegie 46. Go against the grain, refuse to conform, take the road less traveled instead of the well-beaten path. Laugh in the face of adversity, and leap before you look. Dance as though EVERYBODY is watching. March to the beat of your own drummer. And stubbornly refuse to fit in. ― Mandy Hale 47. The more you tell yourself how hard something is, the harder it will actually seem. ― Gary John Bishop 48. Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving. ― Dale Carnegie 49. Being cool has nothing to do with age; it has to do with how solid your identity is. ― Gary Vaynerchuk 50. Fear is the Biggest dream stealer. It never goes away. But, you can change your relationship to it by conditioning yourself to act in the face of it. DO THIS and you won’t have regrets in life. 51. All your fears, insecurities and self-doubts are all in your head. You must condition your mind to be free of all those dis-empowering thoughts. DO THIS and you will be able to acomplish more than you can possibly imagine. 52. Life will try to make you feel like you’re not worthy. Despite what thoughts are telling you, despite who said you weren’t good enough, you have to remind yourself, “I am worthy. I am a masterpiece, I am wonderfully made.” – Joel Osteen 53. Do the right thing when it’s hard, keep a good attitude when people are not treating you right, go the extra mile when nobody is watching. – Joel Osteen 54. Who you are is defined by what you’re willing to struggle for. ― Mark Manson 55. Never apologize for who you are. It lets the whole world down. ― Jen Sincero 56. Do the things YOU enjoy and NEVER compete with other people over success. 57. Comparing what you have or have acomplished with other people will always make you feel like a failure because someone is always doing better than you. 58. You must choose to be happy, grateful, and fulfilled. If you make that choice every single day, regardless of where you are or what’s happening, you will be happy. ― Rachel Hollis 59. Why make yourself miserable saying things like, “Why do we have such bad luck? What has God done to us? What have we done to deserve this?” – all of which, if you understand reality and take it completely into your heart, are irrelevant and unsolvable. They are just things that nobody can know. Your situation is just an accident of life. ― Richard Feynman 60. You, and only you, are ultimately responsible for who you become and how happy you are. ― Rachel Hollis 61. Friends and family who suffer the lack of abundance, joy, love, fulfillment and prosperity in their own lives really have no business imposing their self-limiting beliefs on your reality experience. ― Anthon St. Maarten 62. Imagine what our world would be like if everyone loved themselves so much that they weren’t threatened by other people’s opinions or skin colors or sexual preferences or talents or education or possessions or lack of possessions or religious beliefs or customs or their general tendency to just be whoever the hell they are. ― Jen Sincero 63. Serenity of mind is achieved when one shows friendship towards those who are happy, compassion for those who suffer, delights towards the rightous and indifference towards the wicked. – Yoga Sutras of Patanjali 64. Draw stick figures. Sing off key. Write bad poems. Sew ugly clothes. Run slowly. Flirt clumisly. Play video games on easy. You do NOT need to be good at something to enjoy the act. Talent is overrated. Do things you like doing. It’s OK to suck! 65. You’re going to die anyway. Things are going to happen anyway. Why shouldn’t you be happy? You gain nothing by being bothered by life’s events. It doesn’t change the world; you just suffer. ― Michael A. Singer 66. Life is essentially an endless series of problems. The solution to one problem is merely the creation of another. ― Mark Manson 67. Promise Yourself to forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. – Christian D. Larson 68. Never surrender your hopes and dreams to the fateful limitations others have placed on their own lives. The vision of your true destiny does not reside within the blinkered outlook of the naysayers and the doom prophets. ― Anthon St. Maarten 69. you are in control of your own life. You get one and only one chance to live, and life is passing you by. Stop beating yourself up, and dang it, stop letting others do it too. Stop accepting less than you deserve. Stop buying things you can’t afford to impress people you don’t even really like. Stop eating your feelings instead of working through them. Stop buying your kids’ love with food, or toys, or friendship because it’s easier than parenting. Stop abusing your body and your mind. Stop! Just get off the never-ending track. ― Rachel Hollis 70. Being BAD at something is the first step towards being GOOD at something. 71. The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel. – Steven Furtick 72. Only you can take inner freedom away from yourself, or give it to yourself. Nobody else can. ― Michael A. Singer 73. Every morning empty out the worry, empty out the guilt, empty out the bitterness. Keep your heart pure. If you’ll do this, you’ll have more strength, more creativity, more favor. You will rise to new levels and become everything you were created to be. – Joel Osteen 74. You’re sitting on a planet spinning around in the middle of absolutely nowhere. Go ahead, take a look at reality. You’re floating in empty space in a universe that goes on forever. If you have to be here, at least be happy and enjoy the experience. ― Michael A. Singer 75. It’s scary to jump into the unknown. That’s why many people would rather keep attending seminars, reading books, and pretending to make changes. Ultimately it’s up to you to take responsibility for your life. ― Henri Junttila 76. The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are. ― C.G. Jung 77. When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity. ― Dale Carnegie 78. Because if you base your self-worth on what everyone else thinks of you, you hand all your power over to other people and become dependent on a source outside of yourself for validation. Then you wind up chasing after something you have no control over, and should that something suddenly place its focus somewhere else, or change its mind and decide you’re no longer very interesting, you end up with a full-blown identity crisis. ― Jen Sincero 79. You are perfect. To think anything less is as pointless as a river thinking that it’s got too many curves or that it moves too slowly or that its rapids are too rapid. ― Jen Sincero 80. You are responsible for what you say and do. You are not responsible for whether or not people freak out about it.” ― Jen Sincero 81. Someone who doesn’t respect your boundaries deserves no place in your life, but they should respect those boundaries because they want to, not because you tell them to. ― Simeon Lindstrom 82. There is more to life than pleasing people. There is much more to life than following others’ prescribed path. There is so much more to life than what you experience right now. You need to decide who you are for yourself. ― Roy T. Bennett 83. The true measure of who you are won’t be found in your circumstances but rather the way in which you respond to them. ― Gary John Bishop 84. You’ll realize that when you’re willing to do what it takes, nothing else matters. You won’t put off the things you’re truly willing to do. You won’t neglect the responsibilities you took on because you will feel the strong sense of willingness to do them. Willingness. It’s the lifeblood of the new, the infinite well of possibility and potential, a state where new futures arise and a whole new you can begin. ― Gary John Bishop 85. You’ll learn, as you get older, that rules are made to be broken. Be bold enough to live life on your terms, and never, ever apologize for it. ― Mandy Hale 86. The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you. ― Peter Shaffer 87. So, you have $86,400 in your account and someone stole $10 from you. Would you be upset and throw all of the $86,390 away in hopes of getting back at the person that took your $10? Or move on and live? Right, move on and live. See, we have 86,400 seconds in every day so don’t let someone’s negative 10 seconds ruin the rest of the 86,390. Don’t sweat the small stuff, life is bigger than that. 88. Bad news is: You cannot make people like, love, understand, validate, accept, or be nice to you. Good news is: It doesn’t matter. 89. Do NOT be disappointed if people refuse to help you. Remember the words of Einstein: “I am thankful to all those who said NO, because of them I did it myself.” 90. Life is too short to be unhappy. You have to take the good with the bad, smile when you should, love what you got and always remember what you had. Always forgive but never forget. Learn from your mistakes but never regret. People change and things go wrong. But always remember life goes on. 91. I don’t hold grudges. You just become irrelevant. 92. Realize that you’ve got one shot at life. Do as many different things as possible. Experience life from extreme to another. Laugh and cry, love and hate, kiss and fight. Live wildly or quietly. Make your life a hell of a ride. 93. There’s only so much money a man really needs. The rest is just for showing off. – Forrest Gump 94. Not caring what people think is incredibly difficult. But if you don’t get to that mindset, you will always be a slave to other people’s judgement. 95. Often people will judge you because they lack the confidence to truly be themselves. 96. When x amount of people judge you, the same amount of people respect you more for being yourself 97. We are at the center of the galaxy only in our own tortured minds. 98. Live your life for yourself, because nobody else cares like you do. 99. You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. ― Olin Miller 100. Some people will dislike you, but there will be others that like you for being you. But you can’t find those amazing people unless you start living authentically. – YoAntoNeo 101. I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, and yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others. – Marcus Aurelius 102. No one is keeping track of your mistakes. So just keep going. 103. Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner. – Lao Tzu 104. All things will eventually be reduced to dust and forgotten no matter how great or terrible. Nothing really matters. So, don’t worry about it. 105. A wolf doesn’t concern itself with the opinions of sheep. 106. Promise Yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. – Christian D. Larson