Self Esteem Quotes - Page 21

Lend, by your imperfections, self-esteem to others, and you will be invited everywhere.

You can't build joy on a feeling of self-loathing.

The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the heads of rising women, for them to emulate.

Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they will be, as they have been, twice as good.

Once a depressed person becomes active and hopeful, self-esteem always improves. Bolstering self-esteem without changing hopelessness, without changing passivity, accomplishes nothing.

We're here to make people feel like a million dollars, not two cents.

If you don't like yourself, you're going to have a really hard time getting along with anyone else.

Low self-esteem causes me to believe that I have so little worth that my response does not matter. With repentance, however, I understand that being worth so much to God is why my response is so important. Repentance is remedial work to mend our minds and hearts, which get bent by sin.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.

If only corporal punishment cured low self-esteem.

We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem.

There's a treasury full of jade and jewels; It is in you. Don't go searching far from home for it-it's here.

The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.

Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them. Love is the most impregnable refuge of self-esteem, and we hate the eye that reaches to our nakedness. Edith Wharton ~ The Touchstone

You don't have to say you love me, just be close at hand. You don't have to stay for ever, I will understand.

There are so many more important things to worry about than how you're perceived by strangers.

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 will respond.

Your failures and misfortunes don't threaten other people. . .It's your assets and your successes that are problems for people who derive their self-esteem from being superior.

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 are neurologically training future generations in the pathological identifications found in the 'mentally' ill or maladjusted.

People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not.

People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-esteem, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning.

I think if you exercise, your state of mind - my state of mind - is usually more at ease, ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

Self-esteem is an inner feeling: Sometimes it corresponds with outer reality, and sometimes it doesn’t.