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To attain success without attaining positive self-esteem is to be condemned to feeling like an imposter anxiously awaiting exposure.

To attain "success" without attaining positive self-esteem is to be condemned to feeling like an imposter anxiously awaiting exposure.

Nathaniel Branden
Self Esteem, Feelings, Exposure
Nathaniel Branden (1998). “A Woman's Self-Esteem: Struggles and Triumphs in the Search for Identity”, Jossey-Bass

You have a right to your feelings. Your feelings are there to tell you something, but they are not infallible guides to behavior.

Nathaniel Branden
Feelings, Behavior, Guides
Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.399, Simon and Schuster

The greatest barrier to achievement and success is not lack of talent or ability but rather the feeling that achievement and success, above a certain level, are outside our self-concept-our image of who we are and what is appropriate to us.

Nathaniel Branden
Self, Achievement, Feelings
Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. When man rejects reason as his standard of judgement, only one alternative standard remains to him: his feelings. A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition. Faith is the equation of feelings with knowledge

Nathaniel Branden
Commitment, Judgement, Feelings
Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden (1965). “The virtue of selfishness: a new concept of egoism”

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