Esteem Quotes

It is important to ask yourself why you’re doing what you’re doing and what purpose it serves in the big picture.

I attribute my ability to maintain cool to God, self-esteem, and knowing my purpose in life. It can't be based on anything material or external.

You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

Avoid negative people at all costs. They are the greatest destroyers of self-confidence and self-esteem.

We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.

Do you know how powerful you are?

Repect yourself... The rest will follow.

Low self esteem is rooted in many things. One of them is not spending time to appreciate the gifts we've been given.

You are already That which you seek.

The biggest secret of self-esteem is this: Begin to appreciate other people more; show respect for any human being merely because he is a child of God and therefore a thing of value.

The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother or his wife or God, to give him that confidence.

We shall never see much change for the better in our churches in general till the prayer meeting occupies a higher place in the esteem of Christians.

Integrity is congruence between what you know, what you profess, and what you do.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

Most people don't know there are angels whose only job is to make sure you don't get too comfortable & fall asleep & miss your life.

Too many young girls have eating disorders due to low self-esteem and distorted body image. I think it's so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully.

There is always room in your life for thinking bigger, pushing limits and imagining the impossible.

He is the richest man in the esteem of the world who has gotten the most. He is the richest man in the esteem of Heaven who has given the most.

If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.

The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

The clearer the rules and the limits enforced by parents, the higher the child's self-esteem. The more freedom the child had, the lower his self-esteem.

You can never enslave somebody who knows who he is.

In yourself right now is all the place you've got.

The greater a child’s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a strong and healthy sense of self.

Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired.

Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Only when one is connected to one's own core is.

Greatness exists like an ocean within you. Why do you want to act like a fish out of water, wriggling on the sand under the scorching sun? Look! The water is just one millimeter away! Jump in!

The voice inside your head is not the voice of god. It just sounds like it thinks it is.

Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body. Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his body; deprive him of self-respect and you kill his spirit.

You are younger today than you will ever be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow.

Confidence is preparation in action.

Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.

How few young men realize that their success in life depends more upon what they are than upon what they know. It is self-esteem that has brought the race this far.

There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by myself.

Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their fellows.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

Learning to deal with setbacks, and maintaining the persistence and optimism necessary for childhood's long road to mastery are the real foundations of lasting self-esteem.

I feel like our future is our confidence and self-esteem.

Self-esteem comes from the self, not from acquisitions and approval.

Hold prayer in high esteem. It is the foundation of all the virtues, and the source of all grace needed to sanctify ourselves and to discharge the duties of our employment.

Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.

If I am not I, who will be?

A self-esteem issue doesn't change whether you're considered beautiful or not because it's about what's inside you.

For my part, I sincerely esteem the Constitution, a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests.

When you acquire enough inner peace and feel really positive about yourself, it's almost impossible for you to be controlled and manipulated by anybody else.

Yours is the energy that makes your world. There are no limitations to the self except those you believe in.

It really is all about believing in yourself: 80 per cent mental, 20 per cent physical.

Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.