Quotes on Self Esteem

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.

Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.

Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body. Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his body; deprive him of self-respect and you kill his spirit.

Self-approval and self-acceptance in the now are the main keys to positive changes in every area of our lives.

You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.

Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

Today you are you! That is truer than true!

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.

It is a mistake to look at someone who is self assertive and say, "It's easy for her, she has good self-esteem." One of the ways you build self-esteem is by being self-assertive when it is not easy to do so. There are always times when self-assertiven ess requires courage, no matter how high your self-esteem.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

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.

Only make decisions that support your self-image, self-esteem, and self-worth.