Esteem Quotes - Page 22

• One possible sign of low self-esteem is suppressing parts of yourself so you can fill someone else's expectations of what you should be. You try to fill someone else's (or your own) prescription of perfection, instead of being yourself and embracing your originality.

  Robin Meade

  Being Yourself, Self Esteem, Expectations

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• Often Satan injects pride into the believer's spirit, evoking in him an attitude of self-importance and of self-conceit. He causes him to esteem himself a very outstanding person, one who is indispensable in God's work. Such a spirit constitutes one of the major reasons for the fall of believers.

  Watchman Nee

  Attitude, Fall, Pride

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.555, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• We decided that humility was defined not by self-deprecating behavior or attitudes but by the esteem with which you regard others... Generally, you can be humble only if you feel really good about yourself - and you want to help those around you feel really good about themselves, too.

  Clayton Christensen

  Attitude, Humble, Humility

  Clayton M. Christensen (2017). “How Will You Measure Your Life? (Harvard Business Review Classics)”, p.14, Harvard Business Review Press

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• Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.

  Stephen Covey

  Strength, Self Esteem, Emotional

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.133, Mango Media Inc.

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• I don't feel like my money or my success defines me. I've always been very happy just bein' me.

  Lauryn Hill

  Self Esteem, Self Respect, Very Happy

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• Never take advice from someone you wouldn't trade places with.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Self Esteem, Advice, Trade

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• Go where you are wanted and stray from where you aren't. Surround yourself with positive people and environments.

  Demi Lovato

  Stay Strong, Self Esteem, People

  Demi Lovato (2013). “Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year”, p.9, Macmillan

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• Being right is one more good reason for not succeeding

  Nicolas Gomez Davila

  Self Esteem, Succeed, Reason

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• Charm is that extra quality that defies description.

  Alfred Lunt

  Self Esteem, Quality, Charm

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• The assumption being that if high-risk children could be made to 'feel good about themselves,' these epidemics could be mitigated. ... This prescription, unfortunately, has proven to be yet another in a long list of nouveau homilies that haven't lived up to their promises.

  John Rosemond

  Children, Self Esteem, Epidemics

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• Don't ever, ever quit. Recognize that stopping now, regrouping to try a new approach isn't quitting. If you quit you'll regret it forever

  Rudy Ruettiger

  Regret, Self Esteem, Forever

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• What I point out to you is only that you shouldn't allow yourselves to be confused by others. Act when you need to, without further hesitation or doubt. People today can't do this... what is the affliction? Their affliction is their lack of self-confidence. If you do not spontaneously trust yourself sufficiently, you will be in a frantic state, pursuing all sorts of objects, unable to be independent.

  Kelly Lin

  Confused, Self Esteem, Independent

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• Be yourself. No one can ever tell you you're doing it wrong.

  James Leo Herlihy

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Self Esteem

  James Leo Herlihy (1971). “The season of the witch”

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

  Marion D. Hanks

  Self Esteem, Two, People

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• Each of us has great gifts, but many of us severely limit ourselves with negative attitudes about our potential.

  Gene R. Cook

  Attitude, Self Esteem, Negative

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• Criticism is a destroyer of self-worth and esteem.

  H. Burke Peterson

  Self Esteem, Self Worth, Criticism

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• Hang on the walls of your mind the memory of your successes. Take counsel of your strength, not your weakness. Think of the good jobs you have done. For whenever excellence is recounted, it is increased.

  Sterling W Sill

  Jobs, Wall, Memories

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• We shall never see much change for the better in our churches in general till the prayer meeting occupies a higher place in the esteem of Christians.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Prayer, Church

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• Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.

  William James

  Success, Self Esteem, Congratulations

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• The only thing I pay attention to with free throws is what a guy does in the final four minutes of a game. If you can improve players' self-esteem and confidence, get them to relax, teach visualization and routine, they will shoot as well, or better, with the pressure on.

  John Calipari

  Basketball, Self Esteem, Player

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• The more you lose, the more positive you have to become. When you're winning, you can ride players harder because their self-esteem is high. If you are losing and you try to be tough, you're asking for dissension.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Self Esteem, Winning

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

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Self Esteem, Feel Good

  Rick Pitino (1997). “Success is a Choice: Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life”, Broadway

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• I would be very proud if, one day, I'm held in the same esteem as George Best or Beckham. It's what I'm working hard towards.

  Cristiano Ronaldo

  Inspirational, Sports, One Day

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

  Ayn Rand

  Love, Selfish, Self Esteem

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.41, Penguin

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• I am in no position to judge other women, you know. But I mean, why did she get pregnant? It's not good for women to go through the procedure of abortion and have something living sucked out of their bodies. It belittles women. Even though some women say, 'Oh, I don't mind to have one,' every time a woman has an abortion, it just crushes her self-esteem smaller and smaller and smaller.

  Dolores O'Riordan

  Crush, Self Esteem, Mean

  You! magazine, June/July 1996.

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