Self Esteem Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Self Esteem
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Related topics: Values Motivational Life Human-Nature Psychology Favorite-Quotes Self Self-Confidence
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie 
Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
Inferiority Complex:
a name for not loving yourself enough.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
So your father, or your mother,
never thought you were good enough - SO WHAT?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect
and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance,
as is every other life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
Insult comes not from the mouth,
but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No amount of self-improvement can make up
for a lack of self-acceptance.
- Anonymous
If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter
Once you respect yourself, there is no longer
any reason to disrespect anyone else.
Once you are confident of your own worthiness,
the worthiness of others ceases to be an issue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Loneliness is not what it seems.
One does not feel lonely because one is alone,
but because of a feeling of lack -
a feeling that something is missing.
Loneliness is essentially independent
of how many other humans are around.
It has much more to do with one's self-esteem -
one's sense of inherent worth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
While it is natural to feel some degree of
need for the approval of others, be careful.
If you find yourself unwilling to
take actions that others disapprove of,
you have lost control of your own life
and have given your destiny to others.
An excessive need-for-approval
is a sign of low self-esteem,
and in severe cases, a condition termed co-dependency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A working definition of Honor is,
"respect or esteem that has been earned."
Contemplate that for a moment.
It would be very special to earn the respect and esteem
of our family, our friends, our co-workers, our community, wouldn't it?
If anything, it is of even more moment to honor yourself.
Those who are successful and happy earn their own
self-respect and self-esteem.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Self-honor (self-respect) is in no way selfish.
Before I can give to others,
I must have something to give.
Only by first creating
my own self-esteem and happiness,
do I possess the resources to
contribute anything meaningful to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.
- George Carlin
Self Quotes and Sayings
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
Listen to the compass of your heart.
All you need lies within you.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
- Arthur Ashe
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The way to develop self-confidence
is to do the thing you fear
and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
- William Jennings Bryan
Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I sail the seas of life as the MASTER of my ship.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a man loses his reverence for any part of life,
he will lose his reverence for all of life.
- Albert Schweitzer
What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
- Helen Keller
The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
When I'm trusting and being myself...
everything in my life reflects this
by falling into place easily, often miraculously.
- Shakti Gawain
Believe in yourself,
in your vision for your future
and in your ability to take a small step
each day toward achieving your vision.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare
What you are comes to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Your informed, "no," to a particular service
allows another to offer their
gifted and unreserved, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Weariness comes, on some days, from lack of service to self.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
Nothing is at last sacred, but the integrity of your own mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
You can't be everything to everyone.
- Bill Cosby
Freedom is the right to live as we wish.
- Epictetus
Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies
It is by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- Joseph Campbell
The minority is always stronger than the majority,
because the minority is generally formed by those
who really have an opinion.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The whole world can gossip about you,
and if you don't take it personally you are immune.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Reputation is what other people know about you.
Honor is what you know about yourself.
- Lois McMaster Bujold
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,
while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- e. e. cummings
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb
What we call human nature in actuality is human habit.
- Jewel
With realization of one's own potential and
self-confidence in one's ability,
one can build a better world.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
You either do it completely and utterly,
or you should stop doing it.
- Bono (paraphrase)
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important
as what you become by achieving your goals.
- Henry David Thoreau
Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Society is a masked ball,
where every one hides his real character,
and reveals it by hiding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
Your life belongs only to you.
- Ayn Rand
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