Self Esteem Quotes
Most popular self-esteem quotes
We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.
Above all things, reverence yourself.
Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.
Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communications is open, and rules are flexible – the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.
It's not what you call me, but what I answer to.
We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.
If we have someone who loves us—I don't mean who indulges us, but who loves us enough to be on our side—then it's easier to grow resilience, to grow belief in self, to grow self-esteem. And it's self-esteem that allows a person to stand up.
Stay in college, get the knowledge, stay there until you are through. If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something of you!
Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.
The ingenuities we practice in order to appear admirable to ourselves would suffice to invent the telephone twice over on a rainy summer morning.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Morale is self-esteem in action.
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
The better we feel about ourselves, the fewer times we have to knock somebody else down to feel tall.
A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Parents need to fill a child's bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can't poke enough holes in it to drain it dry.
Try to say nothing negative about yourself for three days, for forty-five day, for three months. See what happens to your life .
We shall have our manhood.
He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.
Many purchasers of self-help books are grappling with a creeping, leaden feeling that life is passing them by. . . . Why, these purchasers ask, am I not a glittering presence? Why do I not have an ostentatiously large and tastelessly furnished house full of sullen hangers-on?
Psychoanalysis shows the human infant as the passive recipient of love, unable to bear hostility. Development is the learning to love actively and to bear rejection.
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.
Justice is always violent to the party offending, for each man is innocent in his own eyes.
The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without.
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem.
Self-esteem, n. An erroneous appraisement.
Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
Self-esteem = Success divided by Pretensions.
Of all traps and pitfalls in life, self-disesteem is the deadliest, and the hardest to overcome; for it is a pit designed and dug by our own hands, summed up in the phrase, "It's no use—I can't do it."
You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself.
Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.
As the internal-combustion engine runs on gasoline, so the person runs on self-esteem.
Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
The average person thinks he isn't.
Self-esteem is just the reputation that you have with yourself.
