Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school. — Elinor Lipman Copy Share Image
Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the esteem of others,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Most people don't know there are angels whose only job is to make sure you don't get too comfortable & fall asleep… — Brian Andreas Copy Share Image
“Self-esteem—the sense that “I’m not afraid to confront this problem and I think I can solve it”—doesn’t come from abundant resources.” — Clayton M. Christensen Copy Share Image
I have strong sentiments toward Iran, since I distinguish between the Iranian regime and the Iranian people. I highly esteem Iranian music… — Moshe Katsav Copy Share Image
“The self-esteem one acquires and a well-earned feeling of one's strength are the only consolation in this world. Income, after all, most… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
What kind of people are these with such low self-esteem that they need a war to feel better about themselves? — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
“We may well value our minds and esteem our brainpower. But let us respect our feet as well. They might be down-to-earth… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
The loveliest, sweetest flower that bloomed in paradise, and the first that died, has rarely blossomed since on mortal soil. It is… — Elizabeth Fry Copy Share Image
I lost a world the other day. Has anybody found? You'll know it by the rows of stars around it's forehead bound.… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The false pride of perennial celebration, of wearing flag lapel pins while betraying the values that the flag stands for, is like… — Anne-Marie Slaughter Copy Share Image
I esteem it above all things necessary to distinguish exactly the business of civil government from that of religion and to settle… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Go where you are wanted and stray from where you aren't. Surround yourself with positive people and environments. — Demi Lovato Copy Share Image
Basically, it is your self-esteem that shapes the choice of your job, female, friends, and how you take care of yourself (health/hygiene/hobby's)! — Mika Copy Share Image
If another person only had in his storehouse of deserved self-esteem what you had put there, what would he have to draw… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up. — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
I do not care to listen; obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Self-control is the chief element in self-respect and self-respect is the chief element in courage. — Thucydides Copy Share Image
There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Cherish believes that God made her with a special purpose. Like any teenage girl, she has her insecurities, but for the most… — Charlene Tilton Copy Share Image
I approach most things in life with a dangerous level of confidence to balance my generally low self-esteem. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
All my life, my church, my family, my friends have always told me to have high self-esteem... to think well of myself.… — Shawn Bradley Copy Share Image
The self of which you speak, whether it is the great self or the small self, is only a concept that does… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it's… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
I think comedy comes more from a low sense of self-esteem, and I certainly have that. — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“It is crucial for us to understand the origins of our low self-esteem before we can transcend it.” — Kevin Solomons Copy Share Image
All too often we're filled with negative and limiting beliefs. We're filled with doubt. We're filled with guilt or with a sense… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it,… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
It's all about self-esteem now. Build the kids' self-esteem, make them feel good about themselves. If everybody grows up with high self-esteem,… — Greg Giraldo Copy Share Image
Hang on the walls of your mind the memory of your successes. Take counsel of your strength, not your weakness. Think of… — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
With earnest prayers to all my friends to cherish mutual good will, to promote harmony and conciliation, and above all things to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The only equitable manner in my opinion, of judging the character of a man is to examine if there are personal calculations… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Few American presidents are held in higher esteem than Thomas Jefferson. Though historians have scrutinized every phase of his long public career… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
