Quotes on Self Esteem

Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.

To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other.

The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind. Such a man is not malleable; he may be mistaken, he may be fooled in a given instance, but he is inflexible in regard to the absolutism of reality, i.e., in seeking and demanding truth.

To be born again means that we must be changed from a negative to a positive self-image - from inferiority to self-esteem, from fear to love, from doubt to trust.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.

Your failures and misfortunes don't threaten other people. . .It's your assets and your successes that are problems for people who derive their self-esteem from being superior.

The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.

If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves. It needs subordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others.

If your self-esteem really does depend on how you look you're always going to be insecure. There's no way you can get around it because you are going to age. Even if you get that perfect body you're going to get older and older and older. You can't avid it. So you have to somehow, at some point, take control and sift the focus and decide who you are, what you can contribute to the world, what you do and say, is so much more important than how you look.

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.