Self Esteem Quotes - Page 35

• I didn't have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager, as I think most teen-agers don't.

  Alanis Morissette

  Thinking, Self, High Self Esteem

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Heaven has no place for the erroneous belief that Christ died because we are worth it. Christ's death in our place had nothing to do with our worth but with the depths of our sin, the demands made by God's justice, and His eternal glory.

  Dave Hunt

  Justice, Heaven, Demand

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• The self of which you speak, whether it is the great self or the small self, is only a concept that does not correspond to any reality.

  Gautama Buddha

  Reality, Doe, Speak

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• The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self.

  Plato

  Lying, Pride, Self Love

  Plato (1984). “Laws”

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• Have confidence in yourself - don't let yourself be used.

  Sakena Yacoobi

  Used, Confidence In Yourself, Have Confidence

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• What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.

  Edgar Friedenberg

  Optimistic, Valuable, Values

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• It's such a profound alienation for a person not to be at home in their own body.

  Marilyn Wann

  Home, Profound, Body

  "Is weight the new race?" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2006.

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• Being on stage is about self esteem and self confidence.

  Jake Miller

  Self Confidence, Stage, Self

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• Trophies should go to the winners. Self-esteem does not lead to success in life. Self-discipline and self-control do, and sports can help teach those.

  Roy Baumeister

  Sports, Discipline, Self Control

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• Self-awareness and self-esteem. Those aren't female issues, those are human issues.

  Curtis Hanson

  Issues, Female, Awareness

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• Forget yourself! Think courage.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Thinking, Forget You, Forget

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2013). “You Can If You Think You Can”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

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• Above all things, reverence yourself.

  Pythagoras

  Reverence, All Things

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