Esteem Quotes

When you undervalue who you are, the world will undervalue what you do and vice versa.

It is common, to esteem most what is most unknown.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once.

When you lose your hair, it has an impact on confidence and your overall self-esteem whether it affects your career or your love life.

Love of others and love of ourselves are not alternatives. On the contrary, an attitude of love towards themselves will be found in all those who are capable of loving others.

Contrary to popular thinking, being worthy isn't something you earn, it's something you recognize.

If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.

Self-esteem is directly linked to deserving success. You must deserve victory to feel good about yourself.

[There can be no] rational administration of government when good men are held in the same esteem as bad ones.

The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty.

Literacy is the door to knowledge, essential to individual self-esteem and empowerment. Books, in all forms, play an essential role here.

Cats invented self-esteem; there is not an insecure bone in their body.

Honor is self-esteem made visible in action.

I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.

When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.

Surely a good therapist should produce a Dorian Gray-style portrait from under the couch so the patient can see the person they really are.

You are magnificent beyond measure, perfect in your imperfections, and wonderfully made.

Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they will be, as they have been, twice as good.

The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the heads of rising women, for them to emulate.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

Self-esteem is as necessary to the spirit as food is to the body.

Once a depressed person becomes active and hopeful, self-esteem always improves. Bolstering self-esteem without changing hopelessness, without changing passivity, accomplishes nothing.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

You have to know that your real home is within.

All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier.

You don't have to say you love me, just be close at hand. You don't have to stay for ever, I will understand.

The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.

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.

We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem.

Our esteem is apt to be given where we know the least.

When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks.

There are so many more important things to worry about than how you're perceived by strangers.

People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not.

Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.

Confidence is one of the sexiest things.

People settle for so much less because they find their identities in the world's fickle and untrue opinions. God made you royal with His blood. Live.

The foundation of the world lies in the nation. The foundation of the nation lies in the family. The foundation of the family lies in the individual.

Believe in yourself and what you feel. Your power will come from that.

My mom raise me so wonderfully. She gave me self esteem and made me appreciate my flaws, as well as my strengths.

We're here to make people feel like a million dollars, not two cents.

Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself.

You don't have to do anything especially worthy to create or deserve self-esteem; all you have to do is turn off that critical, haranguing, inner voice.

Friendship with oneself is all important.

If you don't like yourself, you're going to have a really hard time getting along with anyone else.

We should praise the qualities we would like to see in others, declare that others possess them already, and then watch how quickly these persons will respond.

I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.

I've never disliked myself, and my weight has had nothing to do with my self-esteem.