Self-Esteem Quotes.

Collection of famous self-esteem quotes.

"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

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

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

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. - François 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

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

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

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