Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves. — 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
Every day, it's important to ask and answer these questions: "What's good in my life?" and "What needs to be done?" — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Your life is important. Fight for it. Honour your highest potentials. — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender -not a surrender… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
If you bring five percent more awareness to your work tomorrow, or to your most important relationship, what might you do differently?… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Your life is important. Whether you achieve what you want in life matters. Whether you are happy matters. Honor and fight for… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Even when our life is most difficult, it is important to remember that something within us is keeping us alive- the life… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Of all the judgments you make in life, none is as important as the one you make about yourself. The difference between… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
How do we keep our inner fire alive? Two things, at minimum, are needed: an ability to appreciate the positives in our… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
There is no value-judgment more important to a man--no factor more decisive in his psychological development and motivation--than the estimate he passes… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
I cannot remember a time when the question of why people behave as they do was not intensely interesting to me. The… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
For children mastery entails struggle. This means they must be permitted to struggle. If parents inappropriately step in to "help"-out of impatience… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
I believe that earning your living doing something you enjoy is one of the very best ways to nourish yourself. But even… — 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
