“I began to understand that self-esteem isn’t everything; it’s just that there’s nothing without it.” — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
“If a child is roughly treated and not respected and not shown love, the child will have problems with self-esteem” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
You can't let someone else lower your self-esteem, because that's what it is - self-esteem. You need to first love yourself before… — Winnie Harlow Copy Share Image
[L]et us work to rid ourselves of our attacks of over-zealousness especially when it offends against respect, esteem, and charity. — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Don't workout because you think you 'need' to, do it because your body deserves love, respect and healthy attention. — Demi Lovato Copy Share Image
The Black family of the future will foster our liberation, enhance our self-esteem, and shape our ideas and goals. — Dorothy Height Copy Share Image
You don't have to do anything especially worthy to create or deserve self-esteem; all you have to do is turn off that… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
I do still see that my nature is not to be quite conquered, but will esteem pleasure above all things, though yet… — Samuel Pepys Copy Share Image
There are some surely whom you like and whom you dislike, for whom you entertain esteem and for whom you feel contempt?… — Paul Bourget Copy Share Image
After my second-to-last record, 'The Greatest', I had gone on tour for a while, and I didn't play an instrument for about… — Cat Power Copy Share Image
Once a depressed person becomes active and hopeful, self-esteem always improves. Bolstering self-esteem without changing hopelessness, without changing passivity, accomplishes nothing. — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
I suffered from low self-esteem for much of my life. And now to feel like maybe something that I'm projecting or saying… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
Looking for honest ways to lift one another would . . . be more beneficial to our own self-esteem, for we would… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Success is not something that can be measured or worn on a watch or hung on a wall. It is not the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Confidence is silent, humble self-assurance. Moving one step past a healthy self-esteem, confidence projects an air of authority, trust, and respect—a commanding,… — Susan C. Young 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
If you are a woman, if you're a person of color, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
People who believe that they are going to be excommunicated and shamed, or whatever other dark things may happen to them, are… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Perhaps what I am about to say will appear strange to you gentlemen, socialists, progressives, humanitarians as you are, but I never… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
I have a sense that God is unfair and preferentially punishes his weak, his dumb, his fat, his lazy. I believe he… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Throughout the world there is an awakening to the fact that, just as a human being cannot hope to realize his or… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
What I’d like to teach my daughter about self-image and self-esteem is that you’re beautiful on the inside and the outside, and… — Dara Torres Copy Share Image
We are become Middle Men, of the Twilight, but with memory of other things. For as the Rohirrim do, we now love… — Faramir Copy Share Image
I have a giant ego and terrible self-esteem, so I need to hit the re-set button fairly regularly - to get into… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
When you offer a vibration, the Universal forces are working in concert with each other in order to satisfy you. You really… — Esther Hicks 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
Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think. — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people have worries. They just don't let these feelings stop them. — T. Harv Eker Copy Share Image
Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable. — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
“Let each of you esteem and look upon and be concerned for not [merely] his own interests, but also each for the… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Learn more about yourself! Make a self-esteem collage using pictures of other people you wish you were. — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
We measure minds by their stature; it would be better to esteem them by their beauty. — Joseph Joubert 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
Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect. — Horace Copy Share Image
Well, we all know that self-esteem comes from what you think of you, not what other people think of you. — Gloria Gaynor Copy Share Image
Everything starts with yourself-with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. — Tony Dorsett Copy Share Image
Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome. — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice. — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image