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Self-Esteem Quotes.

Collection of famous self-esteem quotes.


When we appreciate the true nature of self esteem, we see that it is not competitive or comparative. It is not about making myself higher by making you lower. It has nothing to do with you. It is joy in my own being.- Nathaniel Branden

The single most critical factor in self esteem is physical appearance. - Dr Joyce Brothers


The strongest single factor in prosperity consciousness is self-esteem. Believing you can do it, believing you deserve it, believing you will get it. - Jerry Gillies


To establish true self esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives. - Denis Waitley


The most important key to the permanent enhancement of self esteem is the practice of positive self talk. - Denis Waitley


We are unhappy because we no longer have our self esteem. We are unhappy, because we no longer believe we are a special miracle, a special creation of God. We have lost faith in ourselves. - Og Mandino


Most humans, in varying degrees, are already dead. In one way or another they have lost their dreams, their ambitions, their desire for a better life. They have surrendered their fight for self esteem and they have compromised their great potential. They have settled for a life of mediocrity, days of despair and nights of tears. They are no more than living deaths confined to cemeteries of their choice. They need not remain in that state. They can be resurrected from their sorry condition. They can come back from the dead. - Og Mandino


Low self esteem is like driving through life with your hand brake on. - Maxwell Maltz


Criticism is a destroyer of self worth and esteem. - H. Burke Peterson


Even the strongest self esteem is weakened by jealousy. - Dr Joyce Brothers


Self-esteem is not a universal solution. It just may be a universal foundation for a multitude of solutions - Bobbe Sommer


For real self esteem is not derived from the great things you've done, the things you won. The mark you've made - but an appreciation of yourself for what you are. - Maxwell Maltz


Of all the 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". - Maxwell Maltz


We judge ourselves, and measure ourselves, not against our own "norm" or "par" but against some other individual's norm. - Maxwell Maltz


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"To have an incredible increase in self esteem, all you have to do is start doing some little something. You don't have to do spectacularly dramatic things for self esteem to start going off the scale. Just make a commitment to any easy discipline. Then another one and another one." - Jim Rohn


A quality such as self-esteem is a result of practicing good human relations. - Robert J Ringer


Self worth cannot be verified by others. You are worthy because you say it is so. If you depend on others for your value it is other-worth. - Wayne Dyer


People seemed to stop punishing others or themselves only when they gained some faith in their own unique, intrinsic worth. - Gloria Steinem


Self esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it. - Gloria Steinem


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Of all the judgments you make in life, none is as important as the one you make about yourself. The difference between low self esteem and high self esteem is the difference between passivity and action, between failure and success. - Nathaniel Branden


The people who become offended the easiest, have the lowest self-esteem. - Author Unknown


There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self esteem, the more likely one will treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity. People who do not experience self-love have little or no capacity to love others. - Nathaniel Branden


So much is a man's worth as he esteems himself. - Franïcois Rabelais


Persons of high self esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else. - Nathaniel Branden


Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish. - Sam Walton


Lack of self worth is bound up in dark memories from the past. - Deepak Chopra


People who have good self esteem have a clearly differentiated self concept. When people know themselves they can maximize outcomes because they know what they can and cannot do. - Franken


Self-esteem is a sickness if it gives me approval for good acts but condemns me if I fail. - Albert Ellis


Having a low opinion of yourself is not "modesty". It's self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not "egotism". It's a necessary precondition to happiness and success. - Bobbe Sommer


Everyone stamps his own value on himself. - Friedrich von Schiller


The best things in life are yours, if you can appreciate yourself. - Dale Carnegie


You really have to look inside and find your inner strength, and say, "I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself." - Mariah Carey


Accept everything about yourself, I mean everything. You are you and that is the beginning and the end, no apologies, no regrets. - Clark Moustakas


High self-esteem comes from feeling like you have control over events not that events have control over you. - Tony Robbins


Tell me how a person judges his or her self esteem and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in love, in sex, in parenting, in every important aspect of existence - and how high he or she is likely to rise. The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life. - Nathaniel Branden


Our level of self esteem affects virtually everything we think, say, and do. It affects how we see the world and our place in it. It affects how others in the world see and treat us. It affects the choices we make - choices about what we will do with our lives and with whom we will be involved. It affects our ability to both give and receive love. And, it affects our ability to take action to change things that need to be changed." - Linda Tschirhart Sanford and Mary Ellen Donovan


"As you grow in self esteem, your face, manner, way of talking and moving will tend naturally to project the pleasure you take in being alive." - Nathaniel Branden




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