Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.
By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before.
There is so much love in your heart that you could heal the planet.
You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life.
So long as you are still worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself.
From the very beginning you are being told to compare yourself with others. This is the greatest disease; it is like a cancer that goes on destroying your very soul because each individual is unique, and comparison is not possible. I am just myself and you are just yourself. There is nobody else in the world you can be compared with.
Baby girl you need to stop it, all that pride and self esteem got you angry bout this girl I'm wit in all them magazines.
Self-esteem is different than conceit. Conceit is the weirdest disease in the world. It makes everyone sick except the one who has it.
Scarcity of self value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention or influence.
One can mistrust one's own senses, but not one's own belief.
Two things were falling apart, my personal life, my professional life. And I realized that all those things were supposed to make me happy, but nothing could fill me up except myself. So I went into analysis. I went to see a doctor, to talk about my lack of self-esteem. I don't know how to say it better: my lack of self-esteem, my insecurity, and how these things were not going to fill me up. And I'd better fix myself and then find out what I liked. For me, therapy was the greatest gift I could ever give myself. There's nothing I could have done for myself that would've been better.
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.
Self-justification, therefore, is not only about protecting high self-esteem; it's also about protecting low self-esteem if that is how a person sees himself.
There is a direct relationship between self-discipline and self-esteem.
Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
People always want to ask me about my drug problem - I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem problem!
Self-esteem must be earned! When you dare to dream, dare to follow that dream, dare to suffer through the pain, sacrifice, self-doubts, and friction from the world, you will genuinely impress yourself.
I know of no case where a man added to his dignity by standing on it.
You are younger today than you will ever be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow.
God heard us. He sent help. He sent you.
Sports can do so much. It's given me confidence, self-esteem, discipline, and motivation.
To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility - these are marks of maturity and graciousness.
Never take advice from someone you wouldn't trade places with.
Sports can do so much. They've given me a framework: meeting new people, confidence, self-esteem, discipline, motivation. All these things I learned, whether I knew I was learning them or not, through sports.
Girls playing sports is not about winning gold medals. It's about self-esteem, learning to compete and learning how hard you have to work in order to achieve your goals.
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