If we esteem them too highly, good works can become the greatest idolatry. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-brake on. — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
I know of no case where a man added to his dignity by standing on it. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Your life is important. Fight for it. Honour your highest potentials. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Love without esteem cannot go far or reach high. It is an angel with only one wing. — Alexandre Dumas-fils Copy Share Image
The esteem of good men is the reward of our worth, but the reputation of the world in general is the gift… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Friendship, compounded of esteem and love, derives from one its tenderness and its permanence from the other. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Don?t back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for your beliefs builds self-confidence and self-esteem. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate. — Harry Stack Sullivan Copy Share Image
Writers want recognition, audience, some corroboration that all those hours at the desk and in daydreams add up to something in the… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
The picture you have of yourself, your self-esteem, will have a profound effect on the way you see the world and the… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Your self-esteem won't come from body parts. You need to step away from the mirror every once in a while, and look… — Stacy London Copy Share Image
When members of a society wish to secure that society's rich heritage they cherish their arts and respect their artists. The esteem… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
For our children, you want them to build their own self-esteem and their own self-confidence. For your own child. You don't want… — John Calipari Copy Share Image
Dr. Bonar once said that he could tell when a Christian was growing. In proportion to his growth in grace he would… — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
Your choices have psychological consequences. The way you choose to deal with reality, truth, facts - your choice to honor or dishonor… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
This, perhaps, goes to show that conditional self-esteem, as I have said for many years, is an insidious, real sickness, so much… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
A life of fulfillment is one in which we put urgency in its place and remember that the ultimate target is to… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Knowing His will is more valuable than all the treasures we could ever have, and we must always esteem knowing His will… — Rick Joyner Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, we didn't have this super-skinny, flawless image to compete with. I find it unfortunate that young women… — Kellee Stewart Copy Share Image
Narcissism is actually a clever guise adopted to mask its exact opposite, which is a deep well of self-loathing, a well of… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
O how far remov'd, Predestination! is thy foot from such As see not the First Cause entire: and ye, O mortal men!… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
I find that goal setting, when done this way, leads to goal achieving. The chronic failure to achieve goals lowers self-esteem. Show… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The more you surrender to the fear of someone's disapproval, the more you lose face in your own eyes, and the more… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
“We are delighted when a Minister awards us a decoration, even when we have no claim to be thus honoured, but if… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Women should be respected as well! Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
Stressing the practice of living purposefully as essential to fully realized self-esteem is not equivalent to measuring an individual's worth by his… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Transgression of any kind is always accompanied by a loss of self-esteem. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Only make decisions that support your self-image, self-esteem, and self-worth. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
“Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.” — Dorothy M. Neddermeyer Copy Share Image
“oh God! what am I to do if I love nothing but fame and men's esteem?” — Leo Tolstoy-Aylmer Maude translator Copy Share Image
