33 quotes
“Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.”
— Jack Canfield
“Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-brake on.”
— Maxwell Maltz
“Your dignity can be mocked, abused, compromised, toyed with, lowered and even badmouthed, but it can never be taken from you.”
— Shannon L. Alder
“The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.”
— Robert Hand
“The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”
— Mark Twain
“I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.”
— Madonna
“If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.”
— Barbara De Angelis
“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”
— William James
“The moment you know yourself you have known the most precious thing in existence.”
— Osho
“Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
— Christopher Robin
“It isn't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”
— W.C. Fields
“I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.”
— Michel de Montaigne
“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”
— Marilyn Monroe
“Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.”
— Louise Hart
“Our self-respect tracks our choices. Every time we act in harmony with our authentic self and our heart, we earn our respect.”
— Dan Coppersmith
“Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.”
— Ram Dass
“Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be.”
— Avril Lavigne
“You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are.”
— Yogi Bhajan
“To thine own self be true.”
— William Shakespeare
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim.”
— Harvey Fierstein
“Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.”
— M. Scott Peck
“I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.”
— Henry James
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”
— Rumi
“To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.”
— Denis Waitley
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.”
“Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.”
— Nathaniel Branden
“Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your handbrake on.”
“Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions. Do your thing, and don't care if they like it.”
— Tina Fey
“Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.”
“One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.”
— Michael J. Fox
“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.”
— Frederick Douglass
“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.”
— Sir Edmund Hillary
“The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.”
— Rita Mae Brown
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