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“That people do judge themselves so harshly reflects low self-esteem, not low achievement. Self-esteem, we must realize, is the quality of self-respect that is…

— Gabor Maté

“No man with an inkling of self-respect can abide for a moment the feeling that he is a failure. It is extremely destructive of…

— H. Paul Honsinger

“man equate their self-esteem with accomplishment”

— Barbara De Angelis

Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think... The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own…

— Ayn Rand

“the supreme manifestation of all his self-perceived shortcomings”

— Chuck Palahniuk

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“To realize that self-esteem is just that: esteem fulfilled by one’s self, not with the assistance of some other person, action, or object.”

— Robin Phipps Woodall

“The satisfactions of manifesting oneself concretely in the world through manual competence have been known to make a man quiet and easy. They seem…

— Matthew B. Crawford

“Healthy self-esteem is an internal sense of worth that pulls one neither into “better than” grandiosity nor “less than” shame. But the essence of…

— Terrence Real

When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.

— Simone de Beauvoir

“The declining of responsibility for the self can also be hidden behind a pseudo-objectivity. A patient may make astute observations about himself and give…

— Karen Horney

Feeling essentially superior to other people is as sure a sign of poor self-esteem as feeling essentially inferior.

— Harriet Lerner