Self Esteem Quotes - Page 19

• If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.

  John Atkinson Grimshaw

  Inspirational, Funny, Running

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• Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.

  James M. Beggs

  Life, Smile, Laughter

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• 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.

  Drake

  Girl, Baby, Humble

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• No matter who you are, where you've come from, what you've been through... You can make a difference in this world.

  Demi Lovato

  Inspirational, Bad Ass, Differences

  Twitter post from Sep 28, 2013

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• There is always room in your life for thinking bigger, pushing limits and imagining the impossible.

  Tony Robbins

  Attitude, Thinking, Self Love

  Twitter post from Dec 28, 2016

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• Doubt is a virus that attacks our self-esteem, productivity and confidence. Faith that you and your life are perfectly unfolding is the strongest vaccine.

  Sean Stephenson

  Positivity, Vaccines, Doubt

  FaceBook post by Sean Stephenson from Jan 11, 2011

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• Those with a high level of confidence may have as many or more weaknesses than those with low self-esteem. The difference is this; instead of dwelling on their handicaps, they compensate for them by dwelling on their strengths.

  Alan Loy McGinnis

  Courage, Fear, Differences

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• The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unobtainable, envy takes the place of greed.

  Eric Hoffer

  Bullying, Envy, Greed

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• There is nothing so lowering to one's self-esteem as the affectionate contempt of a beloved cat.

  Monica Edwards

  Cat, Beloved, Affectionate

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• The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one's self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate self-awareness is honest acknowledgment of the existence of hidden emotions, motives and tendencies in the mind without immediately suppressing them.

  Bhikkhu Analayo

  Honesty, Deception, Mind

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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, Mean, Judging

  You! magazine, June/July 1996.

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• If your self-esteem really does depend on how you look you're always going to be insecure. There's no way you can get around it because you are going to age. Even if you get that perfect body you're going to get older and older and older. You can't avid it. So you have to somehow, at some point, take control and sift the focus and decide who you are, what you can contribute to the world, what you do and say, is so much more important than how you look.

  Portia de Rossi

  Insecure, Avid, Perfect

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• The desire for self-esteem without integrity is like the desire for wealth without effort-a longing for the unearned.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Integrity, Effort, Desire

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• You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks you're any good.

  Dorianne Laux

  Thinking, Editors, Admire

  Kim Addonizio, Dorianne Laux (2010). “The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry”, p.196, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Persecutors fear loss of control. Rescuers fear loss of purpose. Rescuers need Victims-someone to protect or fix-to bolster their self-esteem.

  David Emerald Womeldorff

  Fear, Loss, Needs

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• When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.

  Abraham Maslow

  Pain, Stress, People

  Abraham Harold Maslow (1999). “Toward a psychology of being”, Wiley

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• People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-esteem, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Motivation, Learning, People

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• Experts say that if children can't read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more likely to enter the juvenile justice system.

  Dirk Kempthorne

  Children, Self Confidence, Justice

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• I have had the experience common to many women, of needing to define myself and to find my self-esteem as a person, not simply as somebody's wife or mother.

  Hazel Hawke

  Mother, Women, Wife

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• Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.

  Chris Evert

  Personality, Fame, Dangerous

  "A Separate Peace" by Steve Friedman, www.elle.com. August 17, 2011.

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• Friends broaden our horizons. They serve as new models with whom we can identify. They allow us to be ourselves-and accept us that way. They enhance our self-esteem because they think we're okay, because we matter to them. And because they matter to us-for various reasons, at various levels of intensity-they enrich the quality of our emotional life.

  Judith Viorst

  Friendship, Emotional, Thinking

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• The players have no real self-esteem when it comes to putting the best image out there in a real competitive fashion.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Fashion, Real

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• Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Play, Training, Identity

  Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.91, Institute of GS

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

  Robert Holden

  Acceptance, Self Improvement, Amount

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

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• Attempts to help humans eliminate all self-ratings and views self-esteem as a self-defeating concept that encourages them to make conditional evaluations of self. Instead, it teaches people unconditional self-acceptance.

  Albert Ellis

  Acceptance, Views, People

  Albert Ellis (1990). “The essential Albert Ellis: seminal writings on psychotherapy”, Springer Publishing Company

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