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  One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

  Arthur Ashe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Don?t back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for your beliefs builds self-confidence and self-esteem.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Confidence, Self Esteem, Belief

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• Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

  William Cobbett

  War, Men, May

  William Cobbett (1820). “Cobbett's Political Register”, p.497

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• It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.

  W. C. Fields

  Inspirational, Confidence, Self Esteem

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• I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Children, Self Esteem, Book

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• A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.

  Henry Winkler

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Responsibility

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• Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

  J. Paul Getty

  Book, Reading, Age

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

  Thomas a Kempis

  God, Self Esteem, Self Respect

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• No amount of self-improvement can make up for any lack of self-acceptance.

  Robert Holden

  Self Esteem, Acceptance, Self Improvement

  Robert Holden (2009). “Be Happy: Release the Power of Happiness in You”, p.55, Hay House, Inc

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• We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Literature, Treats, Capable

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1631, Delphi Classics

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• We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

  Plato

  Children, Plato, Parenting

  Plato (2005). “The Republic”, p.82, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable.

  Anthony Trollope

  Long, Passionate, Lasts

  Anthony Trollope (1861). “The Bertrams: a novel”, p.303

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• I believe that a life of integrity I the most fundamental source of personal worth. I do not agree with the popular success literature that says that self-esteem is primarily a matter of mind set, of attitude-that you can psych yourself into peace of mind. Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.

  Stephen Covey

  Attitude, Integrity, Self Esteem

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.298, Simon and Schuster

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• Seriously, I do not think I am fit for the Presidency.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Self Esteem, Thinking, Self Respect

  "The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln".

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• If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Trust, Illinois, People

  Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

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• I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

  Mae West

  Love, Self Esteem, Way

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• Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem. We cannot draw to ourselves more than we think we are worth.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Self Esteem, Believe, Self Worth

  "Bamboolizing Black America: Classified". Book by E. Malcolm Wise, 2013.

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• Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Honesty, Ambition

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

  Jonathan Swift

  Love, Cold, Capricious

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• Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.

  Moliere

  Preference

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• What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Motivation

  Thomas Paine (2011). “Thomas Paine on Liberty: Including Common Sense and Other Writings”, p.80, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.

  Thomas Paine

  Appreciation, Pain, Democracy

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• The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.

  Ron Paul

  Rights, Rejection, Historical

  Ron Paul (1987). “Freedom Under Siege”, p.38, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Wise, Buddhist

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• I don't entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I'm me. God knows, I'm me.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Self Esteem, Done, Self Determination

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

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