Nathaniel Branden Quotes About Self Esteem

Quotes about: Self Esteem

• Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Motivational, Self Esteem, Self Respect

  Nathaniel Branden (2011). “How to Raise Your Self-Esteem: The Proven Action-Oriented Approach to Greater Self-Respect and Self-Confidence”, p.28, Bantam

• Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

• There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Inspirational, Confidence, Teacher

• Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Depression, Self Esteem, Acceptance

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “A Woman's Self-Esteem: Struggles and Triumphs in the Search for Identity”, Jossey-Bass

• Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Self Confidence

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “A Woman's Self-Esteem: Struggles and Triumphs in the Search for Identity”, Jossey-Bass

• Your choices have psychological consequences. The way you choose to deal with reality, truth, facts - your choice to honor or dishonor your own perceptions - registers in your mind, for good or for bad, and either confirms and strengthens your self-esteem or undermines and weakens it.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Self Esteem, Reality, Choices

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

• If you feel inadequate to face challenges, unworthy of love or respect, untitled to happiness, and fear assertive thought, wants, or needs- if you lack basic self trust, self-respect, and self-confidence- your self-esteem deficiency will limit you, no matter what other assets you possess.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Self Esteem, Self Confidence, Self Respect

• Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Self Esteem, Expression, Accomplishment

• The more you surrender to the fear of someone's disapproval, the more you lose face in your own eyes, and the more desperate you become for someone's approval. Within you is a void that should have been filled by self-esteem. When you attempt to fill it with the approval of others instead, the void grows deeper and the hunger for acceptance and approval grows stronger. The only solution is to summon the courage to honor your own judgment, frightening though that may be in the beginning.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Self Esteem, Eye, Acceptance

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

• As you grow in self-esteem, your face, manner, way of talking and moving will tend naturally to project the pleasure you take in being alive.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Self Esteem, Moving, Talking

  Nathaniel Branden (2011). “How to Raise Your Self-Esteem: The Proven Action-Oriented Approach to Greater Self-Respect and Self-Confidence”, p.158, Bantam

• Our motive is not to prove our self-worth, but to live up to our possibilities.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Self Esteem, Self Worth, Possibility

• To attain "success" without attaining positive self-esteem is to be condemned to feeling like an imposter anxiously awaiting exposure.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Self Esteem, Feelings, Exposure

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “A Woman's Self-Esteem: Struggles and Triumphs in the Search for Identity”, Jossey-Bass

• Positive self-esteem operates as, in effect, the immune system of the consciousness, providing resistance, strength, and a capacity for regeneration. When self-esteem is low, our resilience in the face of life's adversities is diminished. We crumble before vicissitudes that a healthier sense of self could vanquish. We tend to be more influenced by the desire to avoid pain than to experience joy. Negatives have more power over us than positives.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Pain, Self Esteem, Adversity

  Nathaniel Branden (1992). “Power of Self Esteem”

• If we do have realistic confidence in our mind and value, if we feel secure within ourselves, we tend to experience the world as open to us and to respond appropriately to challenges and opportunities.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Confidence, Self Esteem, Pride

  "Power of Self Esteem".

• The higher our self-esteem, the stronger the drive to express ourselves, reflecting the sense of richness within. The lower our self-esteem, the more urgent the need to "prove" ourselves or to forget ourselves by living mechanically and unconsciously.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Self Esteem, Stronger, Needs

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “A Woman's Self-Esteem: Struggles and Triumphs in the Search for Identity”, Jossey-Bass

• It would be hard to name a more certain sign of poor self-esteem than the need to perceive some other group as inferior.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Self Esteem, Names, Groups

  "The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem". Book by Nathaniel Branden, 1994.

• High self esteem people can surely be knocked down by an excess of troubles, but they are quickerto pick themselves up again.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Self Esteem, People, Excess

• Stressing the practice of living purposefully as essential to fully realized self-esteem is not equivalent to measuring an individual's worth by his or her external achievements. We admire achievements-in ourselves and others-and it is natural and appropriate for us to do so. But that is not the same thing as saying that our achievements are the measure or grounds of our self-esteem. The root of our self-esteem is not our achievements but those internally generated practices that, among other things, make it possible for us to achieve.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Self Esteem, Stress, Practice

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

• To trust one's mind and to know that one is worthy of happiness is the essence of self-esteem.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Confidence, Self Esteem, Essence

• Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Powerful, Self Esteem, Self Respect

  Nathaniel Branden (1992). “Power of Self Esteem”

• The desire for self-esteem without integrity is like the desire for wealth without effort-a longing for the unearned.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Integrity, Self Esteem, Effort

• Of all the judgments you make in life, none is as important as the one you make about yourself. The difference between low self-esteem and high self-esteem is the difference between passivity and action, between failure and success.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Self Esteem, Differences, Important

• To accept struggle as part of life, to accept all of it, even the darkest moments of anguish; to be motivated by love rather than fear, by confidence rather than insecurity: these are the benchmarks of high self-esteem. The wish to avoid fear and pain is not the motive that drives the lives of highly evolved men and women; rather, it is the life force within them, thrusting toward its unique form of expression-the actualization of personal values.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Pain, Self Esteem, Struggle

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

• 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.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Life, Self Esteem, Opposites

  Nathaniel Branden (2001). “The Psychology of Self-Esteem: A Revolutionary Approach to Self-Understanding that Launched a New Era in Modern Psychology”, Jossey-Bass

• If you have high self-esteem, you might still know times of emotional suffering, but less often and with faster recovery-your resilience is greater.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Self Esteem, Recovery, Emotional

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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