Our motive is not to prove our self-worth, but to live up to our possibilities. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
The dangers of low self-esteem are more extensive than most of us realize. — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
There is nothing so lowering to one's self-esteem as the affectionate contempt of a beloved cat. — Monica Edwards Copy Share Image
Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like a dish… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious. — John Milton Copy Share Image
If men wish to be held in esteem, they must associate with those only who are estimable. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
It's probably unfair to expect the world at large, or even most people, to see us for all we are. It is… — Victoria Moran Copy Share Image
To truly esteem oneself means that one must be capable of feeling shame or self-disgust when one does not live up to… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and… — Joe Baca Copy Share Image
Positive self-esteem is the quality of simply saying thank you and accepting any value that is attributed to you by others. — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
And I can't even go to the grocery store without some ones that's clean and a shirt with a team/It seems we… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
Imagination builds the image of the self, and thought then functions within its shadows. From this self-concept grows the conflict between what… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
By creating so many illusory images of physical perfection, whether on store aisles or storefronts ads, magazine covers or TV show, we… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
Wisdom and virtue are by no means sufficient, without the supplemental laws of good-breeding, to secure freedom from degenerating into rudeness, or… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The sincere teachers of their youth should be met, not with an intention to dictate to them, but to give additional force… — Joseph Lancaster Copy Share Image
Material esteem is not self esteem. One allows A person to feel good because of earthly possessions. The other allows a person… — Terrance Battle Copy Share Image
There are some who esteem that it is a naivety to believe that a moral regeneration may be possible ("soit possible", Fr.);… — African Spir Copy Share Image
“The key to valuing something is to lose it and then realize how rare it was—after which you pray like mad to… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
There is no country in which so absolute a homage is paid to wealth. In America there is a touch of shame… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Which is more worthwhile earning: a large fortune or the esteem and gratitude of the nation? This question is prompted anew by… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Two things were falling apart, my personal life, my professional life. And I realized that all those things were supposed to make… — Sherry Lansing Copy Share Image
We get off track. Capitalism takes us off track. You get off the "real" and get on the "wheel." The "wheel" becomes… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
In our rough and rugged individualism, we think of gentleness as weakness, being soft and virtually spineless. Not so! Gentleness includes such… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Those who can't do, teach. And, as Woody Allen says, those who can't teach, teach gym. And, as I say, those who… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
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