Don't be so defensive and afraid to be proven wrong that you miss the opportunity to learn from your mistakes. — Karen E. Quinones Miller Copy Share Image
People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-esteem, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
There's a treasury full of jade and jewels; It is in you. Don't go searching far from home for it-it's here. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I can never tell what I'm doing when I'm in the middle of publication because I have no confidence. I have terrible… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I don't entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I'm me. God knows,… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
I believe that the royal family are a focus of patriotism, of loyalty, of affection and of esteem. That is a rare… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The sad truth is that among today's evangelicals it is not loving and esteeming God but self-love and self-esteem that are presented… — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
Mastery over the body - its impulses, its needs, its size - is paramount; to lose control is to risk beauty, and… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
Human potential is the same for all. Your feeling, "I am of no value", is wrong. Absolutely wrong. You are deceiving yourself.… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Let us not esteem worldly prosperity or adversity as things real or of any moment, but let us live elsewhere, and raise… — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
Early intervention programs enrich adverse family environments. The largest effects of the early intervention programs are on noncognitive traits. Now, what do… — James Heckman Copy Share Image
I am sure the man who powders most, perfumes most, embroiders most, and talks most nonsense, is most admired. Though to be… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You're human. You'll screw up. Denying that is crazy. Forgiving yourself has all the benefits of self-esteem without making you a narcissist… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
Prior to being bullied, I was a very footloose sixth-grader. You know, I was quirky, I was creative - I really felt… — Carolyn Mackler Copy Share Image
When you trust and act on your intuition, you increase your self-esteem, build trust in yourself and experience a profound sense of… — Cheryl Richardson Copy Share Image
Gluttony should be destroyed by self-control; unchastity by desire for God and longing for the blessings held in store; avarice by compassion… — John of Damascus Copy Share Image
He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“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… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
Envy, my children, follows pride; whoever is envious is proud. See, envy comes to us from Hell; the devils having sinned through… — John Vianney Copy Share Image
If a man's esteem and gratitude are ever worth the winning, you have won mine today. If ever the future should bring… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
We all experience problems with self-esteem at certain times in our lives especially during our teens when we're figuring out who we… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
“The notion of self-love or self-esteem is in itself either ridiculous or repellent. No one ascribes his good character or successes in… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
With emotional abuse, the insults, insinuations, criticism, and accusations slowly eat away at the victim’s self-esteem until he or she is incapable… — Beverly Engel Copy Share Image
Never esteem anything as of advantage to thee that shall make thee break thy word or lose thy self-respect. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Be thou what thou singly art and personate only thyself. Swim smoothly in the stream of thy nature and live but one… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Always concentrate on the most valuable use of your time. This is what separates the winners from the losers. Self-esteem is the… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
India.. a perfectly wonderful country, may have been motivated by a lack of self-esteem. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
To listen to critics, pro or con, and take their words to heart is to subcontract your self-esteem to strangers. (from Workbook) — Steven Heighton Copy Share Image
It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. — Dale E. Turner Copy Share Image
The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don't base your self-esteem on their opinions. — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
Groveling for connection from someone who compares you to Hitler is not good for a person's self-esteem. — Amy Dickinson Copy Share Image
Forgetfulness is not to be purchased with a wish; and I cannot bestow my esteem on all who desire it, unless they… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
If we treat ourselves and others with respect, we develop more pride and self-esteem. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that, which we have in others. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
So soon as the possession of property becomes the basis of popular esteem, therefore, it becomes also a requisite to that complacency… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
You are living in a time when opportunities for self-empowerment, expanded awareness and spiritual growth appear to be unlimited. — Barbara Marciniak Copy Share Image
Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The glory of fame isn't in having so many people know you, but in having so many people know you care. Otherwise,… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image