Esteem Quote by Janet Macunovich

Self-esteem is like a difficult-to-cultivate flower. It requires frequent nurturing that occurs when you keep your word and follow through on your promises.

— Derrick Bell

A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Guilt stirs me, but only to self-pity.

— Mason Cooley

Pride and resentment are not indigenous to the human heart; and perhaps it is due to the gardener's innate love of the exotic that…

— Hope Mirrlees

Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force.

— Gloria Steinem

“Self-esteem—the sense that “I’m not afraid to confront this problem and I think I can solve it”—doesn’t come from abundant resources.”

— Clayton M. Christensen

The human capacity for guilt is such that people can always find ways to blame themselves

— Stephen Hawking

Guilt can stop us from taking healthy care of ourselves.

— Melody Beattie

Unfortunately, of course, guilt is an artifact of agricultural-age religion and is designed specifically to prevent humans from thinking and operating on a collective…

— Timothy Morton

Sooner or later every gardener must face the fact that certain things are going to die on him. It is a temptation to be…

— Eleanor Perenyi

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves.

— Peter McWilliams

I am fully and intensely aware that plants are conscious of love and respond to it as they do to nothing else.

— Celia Thaxter