Esteem Quotes
1206 Esteem quotes by 749 unique authors
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Never underestimate the power of temptation to disarm your better senses. Throughout the ages good people surrendered their honor for the empty promise that wealth…
— Michael Josephson
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If we love God, do His will, and fear His judgment more than men's, we will have self-esteem.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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It's all about self-esteem now. Build the kids' self-esteem, make them feel good about themselves. If everybody grows up with high self-esteem, who's gonna dance…
— Greg Giraldo
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My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school.
— Elinor Lipman
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I had low self-esteem.
— Jennifer O'Neill
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I was called fat and ugly in the press almost my entire life. I understand that being judged by others comes with the territory, but…
— Kelly Osbourne
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Lust, Pride, Sloth, and Gluttony, or, as we call them these days, "getting in touch with your sexuality," "raising your self-esteem," "relaxation therapy," and "being…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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My esteem in this country has gone up substantially. It is very nice now when people wave at me, they use all their fingers.
— Jimmy Carter
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When you're connected to a source and to each other through conversation, through making love, through meditation, playing games with your kids, all that stuff,…
— Jack Canfield
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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 five years. And…
— Cat Power
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The thing that drives me crazy is when comics say 'I have low self-esteem.' No you don't. You're standing on stage asking people to pay.…
— Colin Quinn
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The false pride of perennial celebration, of wearing flag lapel pins while betraying the values that the flag stands for, is like the self-esteem curriculum…
— Anne-Marie Slaughter
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I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I…
— Katey Sagal
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Someone once said that the most important knowledge is knowledge of our own ignorance. Our schools are depriving millions of students of that kind of…
— Thomas Sowell
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I am convinced that what has the greatest meaning for us is what we uncover for ourselves.
— Elizabeth O'Connor
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When our emotional health is in a bad state, so is our level of self-esteem. We have to slow down and deal with what is…
— Jess C Scott
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If I had my child to raise all over again,I'd finger paint more, and point the finger less.I'd do less correcting, and more connecting.I'd take…
— Diana Loomans
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When you are insulted by someone or humiliated, guard against angry thoughts, lest they arouse a feeling of irritation, and so cut you off from…
— Maximus the Confessor
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He who devoutly strives to attain wisdom and is on his guard against the invisible powers, should pray that both natural discrimination - whose light…
— Maximus the Confessor
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I was a kid who didn't have a lot of self-esteem.
— Melanie Lynskey
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Prior to being bullied, I was a very footloose sixth-grader. You know, I was quirky, I was creative - I really felt good in my…
— Carolyn Mackler
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So soon as the possession of property becomes the basis of popular esteem, therefore, it becomes also a requisite to that complacency which we call…
— Thorstein Veblen
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We are more than our problems. Even if our problem is our own behavior, the problem is not who we are-it's what we did. It's…
— Melody Beattie
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If you have high self-esteem, you might still know times of emotional suffering, but less often and with faster recovery-your resilience is greater.
— Nathaniel Branden
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One who has self-esteem esteems oneself because one knows the value of one's being as a singular yet universal expression of the highest value in…
— Yasuhiko Kimura
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