Self Esteem Quotes - Page 15

Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.

You have to believe in yourself in spite of what other people believe.

People used to say, "Ignorance is no excuse." Today, ignorance is no problem. After all, you have "a right to your own opinion" - and self-esteem to boot.

Be the winner in your life!

Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.

From the very beginning you are being told to compare yourself with others. This is the greatest disease; it is like a cancer that goes on destroying your very soul because each individual is unique, and comparison is not possible. I am just myself and you are just yourself. There is nobody else in the world you can be compared with.

Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.

Do not compare yourself to others. You have a unique destiny and mission that only you can accomplish.

I have never understood the importance of having children memorize battle dates. It seems like such a waste of mental energy. Instead, we could teach them important subjects such as How the Mind Works, How to Handle Finances, How to Invest Money for Financial Security, How to be a Parent, How to Create Good Relationships, and How to Create and Maintain Self-Esteem and Self-Worth. Can you imagine what a whole generation of adults would be like if they had been taught these subjects in school along with their regular curriculum?

Early intervention programs enrich adverse family environments. The largest effects of the early intervention programs are on noncognitive traits. Now, what do I mean by that? I mean perseverance, motivation, self-esteem, and hard work.

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

There is one prevailing key to success. Do what you resolve to do. Then you'll be a success. If you can discipline yourself to follow through on your promises to yourself, your self-esteem goes up. Persistence is self-discipline in action. Self-discipline is the foundation of self-confidence .

If rejection destroys your self-esteem, you're letting others hold you as an emotional hostage.

You're a no good heartbreaker, you're a liar, and you're a cheat. I don't know why I let you do these things to me.

I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.

Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.

In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.

Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.

Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from actually seeing women. It does not, contrary to its own professed ideology, stimulate and gratify sexual longing. In suggesting a vision in place of a woman, it has a numbing effect, reducing all senses but the visual, and impairing even that.

Be an artist at whatever you do. Even if you are a street sweeper, be the Michelangelo of street sweepers.

I love myself for I am a beloved child of the universe and the universe lovingly takes care of me now.

We're always too skinny, or too fat. Too tall, or too short. We're shaming each other, and we're shaming ourselves, and it sucks.

Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable, and you are worth the effort.