Esteem Quotes - Page 31

• You marry at the level of your self-esteem, make sure you have self worth.

  Marie Osmond

  Self Esteem, Self Worth, Levels

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• There is nothing I need so much as nourishment for my Self Esteem

  Alfred Lunt

  Self Esteem, Needs, Nourishment

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• The idols of today are unmistakable -
  self-esteem without achievement,
  sex without consequences,
  wealth without responsibility,
  pleasure without struggle and
  experience without commitment.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Sex, Self Esteem, Struggle

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• Good! Hang in there! It's normal! [Low self-esteem] Often it's a sign of intelligence (but don't let that go to your head haha)

  Patrick Stump

  Self Esteem, Haha, Normal

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• The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Self Esteem, Ideas, Patterns

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1968). “Commentaries on Living: From the Notebooks of J. Krishnamurti”

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• Identity is invariably false to facts.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Self Esteem, Identity, Facts

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• Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Self Esteem, Thinking, Long

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• The loveliest, sweetest flower that bloomed in paradise, and the first that died, has rarely blossomed since on mortal soil. It is so frail, so delicate, a thing, it is gone if it but look upon itself; and she who ventures to esteem it hers proves by that single thought she has it not.

  Elizabeth Fry

  Flower, Looks, Gone

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• Among us, I am happy to say, old age is honorable, and regarded as a blessing from the Lord. It is our duty to desire to live long upon the earth, that we may do as much good as we possibly can. I esteem it a great privilege to have the opportunity of living in mortality. The Lord has sent us here "for a wise and glorious purpose," and it should be our business to find out what that purpose is and then to order our lives accordingly.

  Lorenzo Snow

  Life, Wise, Business

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• RACK, n. An argumentative implement formerly much used in persuading devotees of a false faith to embrace the living truth. As a call to the unconverted the rack never had any particular efficacy, and is now held in light popular esteem.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Truth, Light

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.192, University of Georgia Press

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• Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Men, His Love

  William Butler Yeats (2008). “COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS”, p.527, Simon and Schuster

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• I greet you. Not quite as the world sends greetings, but with profound esteem and with the prayer that for you now and forever, the day breaks, and the shadows flee away.

  Giovanni Giocondo

  Prayer, Profound, Forever

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• Avoid negative people at all costs. They are the greatest destroyers of self-confidence and self-esteem.

  Brian Tracy

  Confidence, Self Esteem, People

  Brian Tracy (1998). “The Gift of Self-Confidence”, p.37, Jaico Publishing House

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• PROJECTILE, n. The final arbiter in international disputes. With the growth of prudence in military affairs the projectile came more and more into favor, and is now held in high esteem by the most courageous.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Courage, Military, Growth

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.172, 谷月社

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• I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.

  Confucius

  Dignity, Confucianism, Virtue

  Confucius (2016). “The Analects”, p.18, Open Road Media

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• Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of her family.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Mom, Husband, World

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• Self-esteem is not a luxury; it is a profound spiritual need.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Spiritual, Self Esteem, Luxury

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• In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity, those who preserve their self-esteem are likely to be heroic exceptions.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Integrity, Self Esteem, Expression

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• 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.

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• I think that giving mindless praise is ridiculous. But I understand why parents do it. They want their kids to feel good about themselves. But parents are never going to teach their children true, positive self esteem by praising everything they do.

  Rosalind Wiseman

  Children, Self Esteem, Kids

  "Queen Bee Moms & Kingpin Dads". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. March 29, 2006.

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• A low self-image is usually not based upon facts; it's mismanaged memory.

  Orrin Woodward

  Memories, Self Esteem, Facts

  Twitter post from Jun 09, 2016

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• Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force.

  Gloria Steinem

  Self Esteem, Blessing, Serious

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem”, p.396, Open Road Media

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• The lower your self-esteem, the more apt you are to believe that someone else holds the key to your happiness.

  Helen Hemphill

  Self Esteem, Believe, Keys

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• With color, for the price of a pot of paint, people can express their own style and individuality. But, as with style, a gift for color has to be developed by experiment. If you don't dare, you are doomed to dullness.

  Shirley Conran

  Self Esteem, Color, People

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• Every man should esteem his neighbor as himself.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Men, Helping, Neighbor

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