Self Esteem Quotes - Page 25

• There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.

  Thomas Merton

  People, Shining, Self Respect

  Thomas Merton (2009). “Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander”, p.155, Image

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• There is a Hindu myth about the Self or God of the universe who sees life as a form of play. But since the Self is what there is and all that there is and thus has no one separate to play with, he plays the cosmic game of hide-and-seek with himself. He takes on the roles and masks of individual people such as you and I and thus becomes involved in exciting and terrifying adventures, all the time forgetting who he really is.

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Dream, True Identity, Games

  "Games Zen Masters Play: Writings of R. H. Blyth".

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• I am my own heaven and hell!

  Friedrich Schiller

  Self Respect, Heaven, Hell

  Robert David MacDonald, Friedrich Schiller (2005). “Schiller: Volume One”, p.140, Oberon Books

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• Everything starts with yourself-with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life.

  Tony Dorsett

  Self Respect, Mind, Making Up

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• Each person is a V.S.P. (a Very Special Person) because we are each created in the image of God.

  Desmond Tutu

  Self Respect, Special, God Image

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• To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything.

  Joan Didion

  Confidence, Self Respect, Self

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Nov 10, 2013

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• Don't let anything morph you or push you around or have you be something you're not.

  Christina Aguilera

  Esteem

  "Christina Aguilera Tells Justin Bieber: Step Away From The Spotlight" by Madison Vanderberg, www.obsev.com. March 21, 2013.

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• The clearer the rules and the limits enforced by parents, the higher the child's self-esteem. The more freedom the child had, the lower his self-esteem.

  Martin Seligman

  Children, Parent, Limits

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• 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.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Stronger, Needs, Forget

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “A Woman's Self-Esteem: Struggles and Triumphs in the Search for Identity”, Jossey-Bass

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• 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.

  Elliot Aronson

  Lows, Self Justification, Persons

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• There is a direct relationship between self-discipline and self-esteem.

  Brian Tracy

  Discipline, Direct, Self

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• Action will destroy your procrastination.

  Og Mandino

  Clever, Procrastination, Action

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• Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.

  Saint Augustine

  Lying, Believe, Sin

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• We may have failed to teach our children right from wrong, but we've done a great job of teaching self-esteem!

  Roy Moore

  Jobs, Children, Teaching

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• You are not mature if you have a high esteem of yourself. He who boasts in himself is but a babe in Christ, if indeed he be in Christ at all. Young Christians may think much of themselves. Growing Christians think themselves nothing. Mature Christians know that they are less than nothing. The more holy we are, the more we mourn our infirmities, and the humbler is our estimate of ourselves.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Thinking, Growing

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• Hypocrisy can plunge the mind of a man into a dark abyss, when he believes his own self-flattery instead of God's verdict.

  John Calvin

  Believe, Dark, Men

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• It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Reading, Dull

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “On Reading: From "Walden"”, p.9, Princeton University Press

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• Most people don't know there are angels whose only job is to make sure you don't get too comfortable & fall asleep & miss your life.

  Brian Andreas

  Jobs, Fall, Angel

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• Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.

  Thomas Paine

  Fighting, People, Enemy

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• It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Average, Shame

  Mark Twain (2016). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.324, Mark Twain

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• About all you can do in life is be who you are.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Being Yourself, Love Yourself, Loving Yourself

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• We should praise the qualities we would like to see in others, declare that others possess them already, and then watch how quickly these persons will respond.

  Catherine Ponder

  Quality, Watches, Praise

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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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• Is self-esteem a sickness? That's according to the way you define it. In the usual way it is defined by people and by psychologists, I'd say that it is probably the greatest emotional disturbance known to man and woman.

  Albert Ellis

  Men, Emotional, People

  Albert Ellis (2005). “The Myth of Self-esteem: How Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy Can Change Your Life Forever”

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• This, perhaps, goes to show that conditional self-esteem, as I have said for many years, is an insidious, real sickness, so much so that even Buddhists carelessly sneak it in and sometimes encourage their clients to achieve it.

  Albert Ellis

  Buddhist, Real, Years

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