There are too many books. The books are terrible. And this is because you have been taught to have self-esteem. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“As a young girl, I allowed my self-esteem to be determined by others’ opinions, and I devoted incredible energy tuning into how… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
Just trying to do something - just being there, showing up - is how we get braver. Self-esteem is about doing. — Joy Browne Copy Share Image
God wants us to prosper. Our need, however, is to evaluate things as they should be evaluated - to esteem earthly things… — Kenneth E. Hagin Copy Share Image
Virtue is everywhere that which is thought praiseworthy; and nothing else but that which has the allowance of public esteem is called… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Low self-esteem is not possible when you understand the nature of everything. Depression is not possible. The universe is absolutely friendly. — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us. — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
If you feel inadequate to face challenges, unworthy of love or respect, untitled to happiness, and fear assertive thought, wants, or needs-… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
We prefer people who are trying to imitate us more than those who are trying to equal us. This is because imitation… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
I think fashion is repulsive. The whole idea that someone else can make clothing that is supposed to be in style and… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The promotion of "self-esteem" in our schools has been so successful that people feel free to spout off about all sorts of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The misfortune is that many people, men and women, think that the perfect face has no flaws, no pores in the skin;… — Douglas Kirkland Copy Share Image
Self esteem is not the same as being self centered, self absorbed or selfish. Self esteem is also not complacency or overconfidence,… — Glenn R. Schiraldi Copy Share Image
Disciples of Jesus Christ understand that compared to eternity, our existence in this mortal sphere is only “a small moment” in space… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem, and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
At thirty years a woman asks her lover to give her back the esteem she has forfeited for his sake; she lives… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions… He will always be attracted to the woman… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To meet someone who really hurts you is to meet a rare and precious treasure. Hold that person in high esteem, and… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Men may be very learned, and yet very miserable; it is easy to be a deep geometrician, or a sublime astronomer, but… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
A God who chastises our lack of faith, our vices, the little esteem in which we hold dignity and the civic virtues.… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
I think my weight-training proved to me more than anything that I can do anything in life if I really put my… — Aaron Tippin Copy Share Image
People with high self esteem are risk takers, but more importantly, they are achievers. — Rick Pitino Copy Share Image
There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken… — Brian Andreas Copy Share Image
Feeling essentially superior to other people is as sure a sign of poor self-esteem as feeling essentially inferior. — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
Self-esteem is like a difficult-to-cultivate flower. It requires frequent nurturing that occurs when you keep your word and follow through on your… — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
High self-esteem comes from feeling like you have control over events not that events have control over you. — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
I used to be self conscious about my height, but then I thought, f*** that, I'm Harry Potter. — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
To be born again means that we must be changed from a negative to a positive self-image - from inferiority to self-esteem,… — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The prettiest girl could have low self-esteem because self-esteem is based on what SHE thinks of herself and not what others think. — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
“ "Friendship is no plant of hasty growth, Though planted in esteem's deep-fixed soil, The gradual culture of kind intercourse Must bring it… — Isabella Mary Beeton Copy Share Image
Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
It is always so, I guess, validating when you meet somebody that you esteem -- and then they turn out to be… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
“Your level of emotional health and self-esteem will always attract others who are in the same category.” — Debra Fileta Copy Share Image
Common men should esteem learning as silver, noble men prize it as gold, and princes as jewels. — Pope Pius II Copy Share Image
I think, head up and shoulders back. Not only does it make you look taller and thinner but it gives you confidence… — Shelley Long Copy Share Image
I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would… — Confucius Copy Share Image