Esteem Quotes

What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate - and immediately forget we have done so.

Whenever I have faced a setback I have dusted myself down and got on with the rest of my life because I believed in myself.

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

Bragging is often merely a ladder we build for ourselves out of words when we are afraid we are not tall enough in the eyes of the world. It is an unwitting confession to low self-esteem.

Prefer diligence before idleness, unless you esteem rust above brightness.

Don?t back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for your beliefs builds self-confidence and self-esteem.

Research has shown over and over again that the more you acknowledge your past successes, the more confident you become in taking on and successfully accomplishing new ones.

The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.

Look around and you will see this world is full of creeps like me.

Be thou what thou singly art and personate only thyself. Swim smoothly in the stream of thy nature and live but one man.

As we open our hearts to others, we begin to discover the truth of our own inner beauty, inner strength and inner light.

There is so much love in your heart that you could heal the planet.

Unless you are happy with yourself, you will not be happy.

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

There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

You will be your best self when you take time to understand what you really need, feel and want.

Make a pledge to yourself right now, to declare that you are worth your time and energy.

Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.

Once a woman parts with her virtue, she loses the esteem even of the man whose vows and tears won her to abandon it.

At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition

Our motive is not to prove our self-worth, but to live up to our possibilities.

He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.

Action will destroy your procrastination.

One can mistrust one's own senses, but not one's own belief.

It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.

I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.

It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.

I've had confidence in myself all along. It was just a matter of getting the pieces back in place.

Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.

To truly esteem oneself means that one must be capable of feeling shame or self-disgust when one does not live up to a certain standard

Fear not. For fear itself is fed by fear, and all fears pass. Did no one tell you so? Come take my hand, my friend, and we will peer into this fear's abyss. And jump! And know.

My family has reduced the effect of my career on my self-esteem. When I'm with them, they make me feel special regardless of how I play.

As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.

The solution to low self-esteem is to get over yourself and get a higher purpose.

Great self esteem comes from inside and feels hot and wonderful.

If your desire is a 10 but your self-esteem is a 5, you'll never perform at the level of a 10. You'll perform as a 5 or lower. People are ever able to outperform their self-image.

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

Always remember, actions speak louder than words. No one's perfect, but we can all strive to be better people.

The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.

Based on our natural heritage as the Divine Light of God, every one of us possesses intuition... defined as the language of the soul.

Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.

Sometimes it just feels so amazing to finally stand up for yourself. I highly recommend it. Life is too short to be taken for granted.

We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.

False glory is the rock of vanity; it seduces men to affect esteem by things which they indeed possess, but which are frivolous, and which for a man to value himself on would be a scandalous error.

If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others.

I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.

Well, we all know that self-esteem comes from what you think of you, not what other people think of you.

As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America.