Esteem Quotes - Page 33

• When you are in the grips of low self-esteem, it’s painful, and it certainly doesn’t feel like pride. But I believe that this is the dark, quieter side of pride — thwarted pride.

  Edward T Welch

  Self Esteem, Believe, Pride

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• The solution to low self-esteem is to get over yourself and get a higher purpose.

  Marianne Williamson

  Self Esteem, Over You, Purpose

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• We like to look for patterns and find connections in unrelated events. This way we can explain them to ourselves. Life seems neater, or at least less messy. We need to feel we are in control: it is integral to our self-esteem. We also know, though we deny it, that we are not in control. So we settle for the illusions of control. What if we stopped fooling ourselves?

  Jessica Zafra

  Self Esteem, What If, Patterns

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• Everything that you do or say that raises the self-esteem of another raises yours as well.

  Brian Tracy

  Self Esteem, Raises, Wells

  Brian Tracy (1998). “The Gift of Self-Confidence”, p.40, Jaico Publishing House

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• There is one prevailing key to success. Do what you resolve to do. Then you'll be a success. If you can discipline yourself to follow through on your promises to yourself, your self-esteem goes up. Persistence is self-discipline in action. Self-discipline is the foundation of self-confidence .

  Brian Tracy

  Self Esteem, Self Confidence, Persistence

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• The greatest step toward success is self confidence. The greatest builder of self confidence is self esteem, and self esteem comes from doing the daily things you know you should do. Your self esteem will start to soar when you make some critical decisions - decisions to walk a new road, to start a new direction, to start a new discipline.

  Jim Rohn

  Self Esteem, Self Confidence, Critical Decisions

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• Our words reveal our thoughts; our manners mirror our self-esteem; our actions reflect our character; our habits predict the future.

  William Arthur Ward

  Self Esteem, Character, Mirrors

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• There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.

  Fred Rogers

  Self Esteem, Self Confidence, Self Love

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.17, Penguin

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• Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be.

  Fanny Brice

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Self Esteem

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

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• Love without esteem cannot go far or reach high. It is an angel with only one wing.

  Alexandre Dumas-fils

  Angel, Wings

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• Humility is not about having a low self-image or poor self-esteem. Humility is about self-awareness.

  Erwin McManus

  Self Esteem, Humility, Awareness

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2006). “Uprising: A Revolution of the Soul”, p.47, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem,above all other sciences,is
  that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable,while those of all
  other sciences are to some extent debatable and in constant danger of being
  overthrown by newly discovered facts.

  Albert Einstein

  Law, Special, Facts

  Albert Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking (2007). “A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion: The Essential Scientific Works of Albert Einstein”, p.249, Running Press

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• With emotional abuse, the insults, insinuations, criticism, and accusations slowly eat away at the victim’s self-esteem until he or she is incapable of judging a situation realistically. He or she may begin to believe that there is something wrong with them or even fear they are losing their mind. They have become so beaten down emotionally that they blame themselves for the abuse.

  Beverly Engel

  Self Esteem, Believe, Emotional

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• For workaholics, all the eggs of self-esteem are in the basket of work.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Self Esteem, Eggs, Workaholic

  Judith M. Bardwick (1988). “The plateauing trap: how to avoid today's #1 career dilemma”, Bantam

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• It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Confidence, Fear, Light

  A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

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• I wish I could show you...the astonishing light of your own being.

  Hafez

  Confidence, Self Esteem, Light

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• Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.

  Tim Ferriss

  Self Esteem, Self Confidence, Insecure

  "The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich". Book by Tim Ferriss, 2007.

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• Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Confidence, Fear, Insecure

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• The sad truth is that among today's evangelicals it is not loving and esteeming God but self-love and self-esteem that are presented as the pressing need!

  Dave Hunt

  Self Esteem, Self Love, Needs

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• Whenever you get one inch above the ground in your own esteem, you are that inch too high!

  Charles Spurgeon

  God, Christian, Religious

  Spurgeon, Charles H. “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 41: Sermons 2394-2445”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• It is a mistake to look at someone who is self assertive and say, "It's easy for her, she has good self-esteem." One of the ways you build self-esteem is by being self-assertive when it is not easy to do so. There are always times when self-assertiven ess requires courage, no matter how high your self-esteem.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Mistake, Self Esteem, Matter

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• The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.

  Patrick Stewart

  Knights, Astonishment, Theater

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• If you want to save capitalism there is only one type of argument that you should adopt, the only one that has ever won in any moral issue: the argument from self-esteem. Check your premises, convince yourself of the rightness of your cause, then fight for capitalism with full, moral certainty.

  Ayn Rand

  Self Esteem, Fighting, Issues

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• The path to self-esteem lies in getting over yourself. There is nothing to esteem about our smaller dramas; it's our commitment to something beyond ourselves that is truly estimable to ourself and others.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Drama

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Apr 16, 2013

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• The lies most devastating to our self-esteem are not so much the lies we tell as the lies we live.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Self Esteem, Lying, Self

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