Motivational Quotes

Self-esteem

The highest in God's esteem are the lowest in their own.

- Kempis, Thomas

Best Quotes about Self-esteem

The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.

Twain, Mark

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

You're not what you think you are; you're not what others think you are; you're what you think others think you are!

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Rohn, Jim

Whatever your job, it is important if it is what God wants you to do.

Jacobsen, Henry

I am as my creator made me and since He is satisfied, so am I.

Smith, Minnie

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

Locke, John

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

Tracy, Brian

Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.

Maltz, Maxwell

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The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

Tracy, Brian

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There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not anymore what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

Fowles, John

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Women who set a low value on themselves make life hard for all women.

Mcclung, Nellie

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It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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Our value is the sum of our values.

Batten, Joe

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You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance.

Garrick, David

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I have often wondered how it is everyone loves himself more than the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than the opinions of others.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Freud, Sigmund

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In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect... and no.

Haddam, Jane

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The highest in God's esteem are the lowest in their own.

Kempis, Thomas

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We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.

Tracy, Brian

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Seriously, I do not think I fit for the presidency.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

Hoffer, Eric

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Acknowledgment -- If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Until you value yourself you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Peck, M. Scott

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I will give thanks to thee for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are Thy works, and my soul knows it very well. [Psalms 139:14]

Bible

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While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Milton, John

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Blessed are they who heal us of self-despising. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious.

White, William Hale

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All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

Johnson

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SELF-ESTEEM controls PERFORMANCE REALITY which stimulate SELF-TALK which reinforces SELF-ESTEEM. This cycle can work positively or negatively and is greatly influenced by the self-talk (I knew I wasn't good at -X vs. next time I'll practice and do better at -X).

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Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Gracian, Baltasar

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If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

Alexander The Great

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Before everyone stands a image of what he ought to be. So long as he is not that his peace is not complete.

Ruckett

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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A person's worth is contingent upon who he is, not upon what he does, or how much he has. The worth of a person, or a thing, or an idea, is in being, not in doing, not in having.

Hilton, Alice Mary

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The greatest success, is successful self acceptance.

Sweet, Ben

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I'll always be number 1 to myself.

Malone, Moses

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One is rated by others as he rates himself.

Proverb, French

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To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem.

Branden, Nathaniel

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To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

Waitley, Denis