Self Esteem Quotes

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The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves. — William Hazlitt
The highest in God's esteem are the lowest in their own. — Thomas a Kempis
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image. — Brian Tracy
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives. — Brian Tracy
The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation. — Woodrow Wilson
The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves. — Mark Twain
It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth. — Mark Twain
About all you can do in life is be who you are. — Rita Mae Brown
We should praise the qualities we would like to see in others, declare that others possess them already, and then watch how quickly these persons… — Catherine Ponder
Attempts to help humans eliminate all self-ratings and views self-esteem as a self-defeating concept that encourages them to make conditional evaluations of self. Instead, it… — Albert Ellis
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

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