To get back to the person I am, I had to reject so much of…

I reject the idea that when young women make choices with which we disagree, they are acting without autonomy.

— Roxane Gay

“When we shut down certain feelings, it's easy to lose our natural relationship with them. But having feelings is an essential part of being…

— Allyson Dinneen

“A person who really likes himself or herself has high self-esteem and therefore a positive self-concept. When you really like yourself in a particular…

— Brian Tracy

You control the direction of your life. Only your self-concept limits you from achieving your fullest capacity. Since changes in behavior generally precede changes…

— Nate

The greatest barrier to achievement and success is not lack of talent or ability but rather the feeling that achievement and success, above a…

— Nathaniel Branden

We have each had the experience of others reacting to us; often there seems to be no logic to it. But in fact, people…

— Stuart Wilde

Just as friction between certain types of rocks produces sparks of light, so it is the friction of our individualities rubbing against each other…

— Rev Rowland C Croucher

“Do you consider yourself valuable? Do you value yourself less than or more than other people? Describe your self-esteem and how you exhibit self-love.…

— Tennie McCarty

Here's a memonic device that I feel teaches how we can properly cope with failure. Forget about your failures; don't dwell on past mistakes…

— Steve Largent

Books seek us out. They slip themselves into our hands just at the time we are ready for a new self-concept.

— Hugh Prather

The self of which you speak, whether it is the great self or the small self, is only a concept that does not correspond…

— Gautama Buddha

It is that the individual has within him or herself vast resources for self-understanding, for altering the self-concept basic attitudes, and his or her…

— Carl Rogers

How anybody dresses is indicative of his self-concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their…

— S. I. Hayakawa

Through dance, people meet demons, ward off death, shake off sin and evil, come to terms with life crises, mediate paradoxes, resolve conflict, revitalize…

— Judith Lynne Hanna

In the quiet moments of your day, what do you think and do? When you are with your Self and no one else, how…

— Neale Donald Walsch