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
It is painful to face the self we know we have never had the integrity to honor and assert. — 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
What is guilt? It is moral self-reproach-I did wrong when it was possible to have done otherwise. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
One of the hardest expressions of self-assertiveness is challenging your limiting beliefs. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Self-respecting men and women think about the consequences of their actions-and are willing to take responsibility for them. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
The greater a child’s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a strong and healthy sense… — 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
To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment… — 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
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
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
If you are an adult, you are responsible for your life and well-being. No one owes you the fulfillment of your needs… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Living consciously is seeking to be aware of everything that bears on our interests, actions, values, purposes, and goals. It is the… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
The feeling that "I am enough" does not mean that I have nothing to learn, nothing further to achieve, and nowhere to… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
It is naive to think that self-assertiveness is easy. To live self-assertively--which means to live authentically--is an act of high courage. 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
It is impressive to see a person who has been battered by life in many ways, who is torn by a variety… — 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
We do not hear the term compassionate applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in their normal… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
In a world in which we are exposed to more information, more options, more philosophies, more perspectives than ever before, in which… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
It is easy enough to say, Be true to your values. But what if your values are irrational? Or what if the… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
To accept struggle as part of life, to accept all of it, even the darkest moments of anguish; to be motivated by… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Positive self-esteem operates as, in effect, the immune system of the consciousness, providing resistance, strength, and a capacity for regeneration. When self-esteem… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself. — 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
A bully hides his fears with fake bravado. That is the opposite of self-assertiveness. — 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
The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life. — 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
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
If you overcome your fear to ask someone for a date, a raise, or help with a project, that is an act… — 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
