Quotes on Self Esteem

When you acquire enough inner peace and feel really positive about yourself, it's almost impossible for you to be controlled and manipulated by anybody else.

Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force.

It would be hard to name a more certain sign of poor self-esteem than the need to perceive some other group as inferior.

In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity, those who preserve their self-esteem are likely to be heroic exceptions.

The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying.

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

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

What is greatness? I will answer: it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose, self-esteem.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem. Instead we reflect on them deeply, trying to figure out what went wrong and discern whether there are any patterns to our mistakes.

No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.

If we can find forgiveness in our hearts for those who have caused us hurt and injury, we will rise to a higher level of self-esteem and well-being.

You are the most influential person you will talk to all day.

You your own best thing, Sethe. You are.

He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

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.

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.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.

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.