Esteem Quotes

1206 Esteem quotes by 749 unique authors

Is self-esteem a sickness? That's according to the way you define it. In the usual way it is defined by people and by psychologists, I'd… — Albert Ellis
This, perhaps, goes to show that conditional self-esteem, as I have said for many years, is an insidious, real sickness, so much so that even… — Albert Ellis
The societal pursuit of high self-esteem for everyone may literally end up doing considerable harm. — Roy Baumeister
Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will. — St. Catherine of Siena
What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves. — Seneca the Younger
What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate-and immediately forget we… — Friedrich Nietzsche
One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher. — Friedrich Nietzsche
You never exist quite so much as when you are not thinking — Friedrich Nietzsche
When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
We all place ourselves at various levels, and we are constantly falling from these heights. It is the falls we are ashamed of. Self-esteem is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Imagination builds the image of the self, and thought then functions within its shadows. From this self-concept grows the conflict between what is and what… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
And it is impossible to treat human beings as human beings if you label them, if you term them, if you give them a name… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
But inwardly we are as corrupt as the person who sits in an office and plans war-because, we want to be somebody in the family,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
These 'philosophers', etc., seem unaware, to give a specific example, that by teaching and preaching 'identity', which is empirically non-existent in this actual world, they… — Alfred Korzybski
Riches I need not, nor man's empty praise. — Alfred Korzybski
Titles are like a magicians wand which circumscribe human facility and prevent us from living the lives of man. — Thomas Paine
Self-control is the chief element in self-respect and self-respect is the chief element in courage. — Thucydides
Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours. — Epictetus
The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is nothing in life so difficult that it cannot be overcome. This faith can move mountains. It can change people. It can change the… — Norman Vincent Peale
Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits — Robert Breault
When one is out of touch with oneself, one cannot touch others. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Measure yourself by your best moments, not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression. — Robert Johnson
Don't be afraid of your own strength. — Diane von Furstenberg

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