Motivational Quotes

Self-esteem

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Self-esteem

Our value is the sum of our values.

Batten, Joe

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Rohn, Jim

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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).

I'll always be number 1 to myself.

Malone, Moses

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

One is rated by others as he rates himself.

Proverb, French

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

Johnson

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

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

Garrick, David

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

Locke, John

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

Jacobsen, Henry

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

Mcclung, Nellie

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Tracy, Brian

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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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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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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!

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

Tracy, Brian

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

Milton, John

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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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If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

Alexander The Great

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

Smith, Minnie

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

Kempis, Thomas

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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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Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The greatest success, is successful self acceptance.