Self Esteem Quotes - Page 21

• Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce

  Gavin Newsom

  Art, Kids, Skills

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• Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up.

  Jack Canfield

  Self Respect, Produce, Greater

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• Self-esteem is felt even though you may not have done anything yet, but just feel the capability for it.

  Denis Waitley

  Done, May, Feels

  Denis Waitley (1986). “The Winner's Edge: The Critical Attitude of Success”, Berkley

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• The impact of organizational health goes far beyond the walls of a company, extending to customers and vendors, even to spouses and children. It sends people to work in the morning with clarity, hope, and anticipation and brings them home at night with a greater sense of accomplishment, contribution, and self-esteem. The impact of this is as important as it is impossible to measure.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Morning, Children, Wall

  Patrick Lencioni (2012). “The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business”, p.193, John Wiley & Sons

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• Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better? Why hide deficiencies instead of overcoming them? Why look for friends or partners who will just shore up your self-esteem instead of ones who will also challenge you to grow? And why seek out the tried and true, instead of experiences that will stretch you? The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it’s not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset. This is the mindset that allows people to thrive during some of the most challenging times in their lives.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Passion, People, Challenges

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• Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Motivation

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Powerful, Self Respect, Requirements

  Nathaniel Branden (1992). “Power of Self Esteem”

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• If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.

  Mark Twain

  Humorous, Compliments You, Pay

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• Motivation and inspiration energize people, not by pushing them in the right direction as control mechanisms do but by satisfying basic human needs for achievement, a sense of belonging, recognition, self-esteem, a feeling of control over one's life, and the ability to live up to one's ideals. Such feelings touch us deeply and elicit a powerful response.

  John P. Kotter

  Leadership, Motivation, Powerful

  John P. Kotter (1999). “John P. Kotter on what Leaders Really Do”, p.60, Harvard Business Press

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• Skill to do comes of doing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Educational, Learning, Positive Attitude

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.162, Harvard University Press

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• If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Love, Life, Self Confidence

  Barbara De Angelis (2009). “Real Moments for Lovers: The Enlightened Guide for Discovering Total Passion and True Intimacy”, p.20, Dell

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• Be original. The world will try to fit you into a mold, but carve your own path.

  Jessica Simpson

  Parenting, Trying, Path

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• Own the room. Confidence has nothing to do with what you look like. If you obsess over that, you'll end up being disappointed in yourself all the time. Instead, high self-esteem comes from how you feel in any moment. So walk into a room acting like you're in charge, and spend your energy on making the people around you happy. Giving confidence to others will come back to you and you'll end up feeling better about yourself.

  Marian Seldes

  Inspirational, Feel Better, People

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• Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.

  William Gibson

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.

  Axel Munthe

  Respect, Attitude, Men

  Axel Munthe (1930). “The Story of San Michele”

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• In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.

  Jane Haddam

  Inspirational, Life, Respect

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• Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

  Theodore Parker

  Respect, Individuality, Sacredness

  Theodore Parker (1853). “Two Sermons Preached Before the Twenty-eighth Congregational Society in Boston: On the 14th and 21st of November, 1852, on Leaving Their Old and Entering a New Place of Worship”, p.58

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• Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.

  John Herschel

  Inspirational, Respect, Virtue

  "A Toolbox for Humanity: More Than 9000 Years of Thought". Book by Lloyd Albert Johnson, 2003.

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• When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death-ourselves.

  Eda LeShan

  Single, Loneliness, Being Alone

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• When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance.

  Lee Ann Womack

  Life, Strength, Sad

  Song: I Hope You Dance, Album: I Hope You Dance

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• In life and business, there are two cardinal sins. The first is to act precipitously without thought and the second is to not act at all.

  Carl Icahn

  Business, Mistake, Two

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• Be the person your dog thinks you are.

  John W. Stephens

  Inspirational, Life, Dog

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• Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

  Herbert Otto Gille

  Life, Change, Learning

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• By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before.

  Edwin Bailey Elliott

  Inspirational, Life, Being Yourself

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• There is so much love in your heart that you could heal the planet.

  Louise Hay

  Heart, Planets, Heal

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