Our motive is not to prove our self-worth, but to live up to our possibilities. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
We tend to feel most comfortable, "most at home", with people whose self esteem level resembles our own. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
I have to respect other's opinions even if I don't agree with them. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
To trust one's mind and to know that one is worthy of happiness is the essence of self-esteem. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
“Self-discipline is the ability to organize your behavior over time in the service of specific goals.” — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
“The opposite of self-assertiveness is self-abnegation--abandoning or submerging your personal values, judgment, and interests. Some people tell themselves this is a virtue.… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
High self esteem people can surely be knocked down by an excess of troubles, but they are quickerto pick themselves up again. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
To attain "success" without attaining positive self-esteem is to be condemned to feeling like an imposter anxiously awaiting exposure. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect,… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
If we do have realistic confidence in our mind and value, if we feel secure within ourselves, we tend to experience the… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
One of the most significant characteristics of healthy self esteem is that it is the state of one who is not at… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
“Instead of seeking self-esteem through consciousness, responsibility, and integrity, we may seek it through popularity, material acquisitions, or sexual exploits.” — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is… — Nathaniel Branden 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
It is a mistake to look at someone who is self assertive and say, "It's easy for her, she has good self-esteem."… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
“Most people do not erode their self-esteem over big issues but over small ones, little acts of betrayal and hypocrisy forgotten (repressed)… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
“One of the great self-deceptions--and one of the great foolishnesses--is to tell yourself, Only I will know. Only you will know that… — Nathaniel Branden 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
Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by… — Nathaniel Branden 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
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
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
“If I respect myself and require that others deal with me respectfully, I send out signals and behave in ways that increase… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
“Genuine self esteem – please understand this – genuine self esteem is not competitive or comparative. Genuine self esteem isn’t expressed by… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
The lies most devastating to our self-esteem are not so much the lies we tell as the lies we live. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Your life is important. Fight for it. Honour your highest potentials. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health, self-esteem, not its cause — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
The desire for self-esteem without integrity is like the desire for wealth without effort-a longing for the unearned. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
“It is humiliating to realize that when you drive yourself underground, when you fake who you are, often you do so for… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
If you have high self-esteem, you might still know times of emotional suffering, but less often and with faster recovery-your resilience is… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
It would be hard to name a more certain sign of poor self-esteem than the need to perceive some other group as… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Where we see self esteem, we see self acceptance. High self esteem individual tend to avoid falling into an adversarial relationship with… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share
A commitment to lifelong learning is a natural expression of the practice of living consciously. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share
What a great teacher, a great parent, a great psychotherapist and a great coach have in common is a deep belief in the potential… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share
If we are happy within ourselves, we don't accept or demand that our partner should fulfill every need. We need to be comfortable with… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share
Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health, self-esteem, not its cause — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share
Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. When man rejects reason as… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share
In the nature of our existence, we must act to achieve values. And in order to act appropriately, we need to value the beneficiary… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share
I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The desire to… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share
Suppose you feel you cannot accept some fact about yourself. Then own your refusal to accept. Own the block. Embrace it fully. And watch… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share
“Out of fear, out of the desire for approval, out of misguided notions of duty, people surrender themselves--their convictions and their aspirations--every day. There… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share
If you overcome your fear to ask someone for a date, a raise, or help with a project, that is an act of self-assertiveness.… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share
It would be hard to name a more certain sign of poor self-esteem than the need to perceive some other group as inferior. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share
When we bury our feelings, we also bury ourselves. It means we exist in a state of alienation. We rarely know it, but we… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share
