Self Esteem Quotes - Page 26

• 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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• The societal pursuit of high self-esteem for everyone may literally end up doing considerable harm.

  Roy Baumeister

  May, Ends, Harm

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• Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Perfection, Doe, Body

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• There are a lot of young black girls who I meet in my travels who don't have a lot of self-esteem. So if I communicate to them that they're beautiful, no white person should find fault in that. It doesn't mean that young white girls aren't beautiful, because they are just as beautiful.

  Lauryn Hill

  Beautiful, Girl, Mean

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• A person's self-esteem has nothing to do with how she looks.

  Halle Berry

  Confidence, Personality, Self Respect

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• Self-esteem should have nothing to do with what you look like – if you exude genuine confidence, people will be swept into it. You have to be able to hold yourself.

  Gillian Anderson

  Should Have, People, Able

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• The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams from generation to generation. We all bear the cost of keeping it running. Illiteracy is its linchpin.

  Carl Sagan

  Running, Dream, Ignorance

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.464, Ballantine Books

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• You have to know that your real home is within.

  Quincy Jones

  Real, Home, Self Awareness

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• You can't compare an apple to an orange. It will cause a lot of self esteem issues.

  Craig Sheffer

  Apples, Orange, Issues

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

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• Love is something you and I must have. We must have it because our spirit feeds upon it. We must have it because without it we become weak and faint. Without love our self-esteem weakens. Without it our courage fails. Without love we can no longer look out confidently at the world.

  Chief Dan George

  Love Is, Looks, World

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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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• 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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• Your mental diet largely determines your character and your personality and almost everything that happens to you in life. When you feed your mind with positive affirmations, information, books, conversations, audio programs, and thoughts, you develop a more positive attitude and personality. You become more influential and persuasive. You enjoy greater confidence and self-esteem.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Attitude, Book

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Dec 14, 2013

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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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• I wonder why it is that we so often imprison ourselves in the opinions of other people. There can be no punishment worse than conspiring in our own diminishment.

  Dawna Markova

  Punishment, People, Opinion

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• There's a treasury full of jade and jewels; It is in you. Don't go searching far from home for it-it's here.

  Gautama Buddha

  Home, Jewels, Self Respect

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• Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.

  Barbara Sher

  Resentment, Weak, Self

  Barbara Sher (2010). “I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It”, p.190, Dell

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• The best way to achieve self-esteem is to do something worthy of esteem.

  Todd G. Buchholz

  Way, Achieve, Worthy

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