Quotes on Esteem

Low self-esteem causes me to believe that I have so little worth that my response does not matter. With repentance, however, I understand that being worth so much to God is why my response is so important. Repentance is remedial work to mend our minds and hearts, which get bent by sin.

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.

It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life,it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life or joys, But the vast shipwreck of my life's esteems; And e'en the dearest--that I love the best-- Are strange--nay, rather stranger than the rest.

Riches I hold in light esteem, And love I laugh to scorn, And lust of fame was but a dream That vanished with the morn. And if I pray, the only prayer That moves my lips for me Is, 'Leave the heart that now I bear, And give me liberty!' Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'Tis all that I implore - In life and death, a chainless soul, With courage to endure.

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.