This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine.

If you put yourself down, others will follow. If you believe in yourself, others will follow.
When you strut your stuff, you’re not being a show-off. You’re making a contribution. Sharing your gifts. It takes courage to get out of your own way and run with your talents. Courage to excel in something. But don’t you owe it to yourself to succeed? To make yourself proud?
Architect Frank Lloyd Wright said, “Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance.”
Don’t be obnoxious. But do be amazing. Marianne Williamson wrote, “We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.”

Step by step, I can move forward.

Goethe wrote, “Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.” Everyone has moments of self-doubt. A person who never suffers from self-doubt may be insufferable. But to constantly second-guess or berate or feel sorry for yourself is not ideal, either. “Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress,” said Oprah Winfrey. “Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.”
Forgive yourself for not being perfect, then strive to shore up your shortcomings. Can you be more considerate, more hard-working? Can you step out from behind the curtain and realize your potential?
Dorothy Parker wrote:
I shall stay the way I am Because I do not give a damn.
Good poem; bad attitude. A little effort goes a long way. And if you start out apathetic, you can wind up pathetic.