Self-esteem Quotes

Be self-indulgent, and those who are also self-indulgent will like you. Tear your neighbor to pieces...

Maybe just being me was enough to be loved. I wasn't giving myself any credit.Now I knew that I h

Remember who you are. This creature wants to take it from you. Do not let him.

That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for w...

When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you ar...

My first strike was marrying a guy without a college degree. My second and third were getting pregna...

Once Ed said to me, "For a very long time I didn't like myself." It was not said in self-pity but si...

Just be yourself -- it's the only way it can work.

He was lovable the way a child is lovable, and he was capable of returning love with a childlike pur...

When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable.

But now that she had achieved knighthood, and thought and acted as she wanted and decided, for one h...

I’m fifteen and I feel like girl my age are under a lot of pressure that boys are not under. I know ...

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.

If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a po...

Love me or hate me, i swear it won't make or break me.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

Forgive me, Bertrand, for having on that day loved in you a beauty in which your self-esteem could t...

III. I have often wondered how it should come to pass, that every man loving himself best, should mo...

For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond meas...

You have tremendous gifts to give; God sent them with you when you came to this earth. And while you...

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you...

The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.

Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.

The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognize your own worth.

You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Not only have people stopped trying to be attractive when they are out among other people, but they ...

It's not really my problem if they think I'm weird.

I will never attend an anti-war rally; if you have a peace rally, invite me.

If you can not do great things, Do small things in a great way.

You’ve got to be sure of yourself beforeYou can ever win a prize.

While self-esteem touches virtually every aspect of our existence, there are two aspects to which it...

Most people do not erode their self-esteem over big issues but over small ones, little acts of betra...

The first act of honoring the self is the assertion of consciousness: the choice to think, to be awa...

It is naive to think that self-assertiveness is easy. To live self-assertively--which means to live ...

A bully hides his fears with fake bravado. That is the opposite of self-assertiveness.

One of the great self-deceptions--and one of the great foolishnesses--is to tell yourself, Only I wi...

We are parts of one universe, true enough. We stand within an almost infinite network of relationshi...

The idea of original sin--of guilt with no possibility of innocence, no freedom of choice, no altern...

Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by t...

If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abju...

The challenge for people today--and it is not and easy one--is to maintain high personal standards e...

It is humiliating to realize that when you drive yourself underground, when you fake who you are, of...

One of the hardest expressions of self-assertiveness is challenging your limiting beliefs.

Out of fear, out of the desire for approval, out of misguided notions of duty, people surrender them...

It sounded, I told him, as if he had never learned to balance projecting goals into the future with ...

Genuine self esteem – please understand this – genuine self esteem is not competitive or comparative...

Self-discipline is the ability to organize your behavior over time in the service of specific goals.

Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. ...

It is a mistake to look at someone who is self assertive and say, "It's easy for her, she has good s...

The opposite of self-assertiveness is self-abnegation--abandoning or submerging your personal values...

In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is...

All positive interactions with other human beings involve, to some degree, the experience of visibil...

It is painful to face the self we know we have never had the integrity to honor and assert.

To honor the self is to be willing to think independently, to live by our own mind, and to have the ...

Integrity is congruence between what you know, what you profess, and what you do.

Chances are, when you were young, you were told, in effect, "Listen, kid, here is the news: life is ...

Sometimes the path to higher self-esteem is lonely and frightening. We cannot fully know in advance ...

Of all the judgements we pass, none is as important as the one we pass on ourselves.

Our liabilities pose the problem of inadequacy; our our assets, the challenge of responsibility. Our...

The higher our self-esteem, the more likely we are to be creative in our work, which means the more ...

In the inner courtroom of my mind, mine is the only judgment that counts.

Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

Some people stand and move as if they have no right to the space they occupy. They wonder why others...

The greater a child’s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a ...

Every time I move I squash something said Loathesome.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in you...

Don't back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for yourself builds self confidence and self est...

What I find powerful is a person withthe confidence to be her own self.

The self-esteem one acquires and a well-earned feeling of one's strength are the only consolation in...

Dont try to be useful. Try to be yourself; that is enough, and that makes all the difference.

You almost have to step outside yourself and look at you as if you were someone else you really care...

The problem nowadays is that children have become too much the center of attention. Their parents, t...

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

Why all this deference to Alfred, and Scanderbeg, and Gustavus? Suppose they were virtuous; did they...

If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people. -- Lazarus Long.

[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.

If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem...

If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem...

If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem...

If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem...

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as...

Leading means running fast enough to keep ahead of your people

What defines you isn't how many times you crash but the number of times you get back.

The important thing to remember, ... is that you are a human being and worthy of respect.

Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine.

for once, you believed in yourself. you believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world...

I'd been through so much, falling short again and again, and only recently had found a place where w...

Okay listen, you think I'm so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthi...

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

You have to understand your best. Your best isn't Barrymore's best or Olivier's best or my best, but...

You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, ...

It is unpleasant and disturbing to be rejected. It is deeply satisfying to be accepted.

Perhaps the most extraordinary popular delusion about violence of the past quarter-century is that i...

If "Manners maketh man," as someone saidThen he's the hero of the dayIt takes a man to suffer ignora...

The different people are not like other people, but being different is nothing to be ashamed of. Bec...

Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions ... Do your thing, and don't care if they like it.