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Esteem Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unobtainable, envy takes the place of greed.
- We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in…
- The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. What…
- Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.
- Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.
- There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those…
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