Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rajneesh

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.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I love you, don’t I? And the gods know you are definitely not easy to deal with. (Aimee) Thanks, Aim. By the way I still have a tiny bit of confidence left. Please make sure you stomp on it too while you’re at it. Gods forbid it should actually grow into something called self-esteem. (Fang)

Theodore Kaczynski

Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.

Melissa Etheridge

Believe in yourself and what you feel. Your power will come from that.

Eric Hoffer

The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. What looks like a giving hand is often a holding on for dear life. Take away our holy duties and you leave our lives puny and meaningless. There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.

Eric Hoffer

Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.

Eric Hoffer

There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.

James Allen

The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.

Whoever you are, there is some younger person who thinks you are perfect. There is some work that will never be done if you don't do it. There is someone who would miss you if you were gone. There is a place that you alone can fill.

Helen Fisher

Neither gender is routinely more jealous - although women are more willing to work to win back a lover, while men tend to flaunt their money and status and are more likely to walk out to protect their self-esteem or save face.

Henry David Thoreau

If I am not I, who will be?

P. J. O'Rourke

Lust, Pride, Sloth, and Gluttony, or, as we call them these days, "getting in touch with your sexuality," "raising your self-esteem," "relaxation therapy," and "being a recovered bulimic."

Plato

The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self.

Paula Fox

I was the goldfish that leapt out of the bowl.

Martin Seligman

Self-esteem cannot be directly injected. It needs to result from doing well, from being warranted.

Lauryn Hill

I don't feel like my money or my success defines me. I've always been very happy just bein' me.

James Harvey Robinson

We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposes to rob us of their companionship. It is obviously not the ideas themselves that are dear to us, but our self-esteem, which is threatened.

Friedrich Schiller

I am my own heaven and hell!

Friedrich Schiller

The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Ludwig Wittgenstein

One can mistrust one's own senses, but not one's own belief.

Sherry Argov

It's that a bit of irreverence is necessary to have any self-esteem at all. Not irreverence for people, but rather, for what other people think.

Maya Angelou

Inscribed on the temple of Apollo

Norman Cousins

You are younger today than you will ever be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow.

Miguel de Cervantes

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

John Henry Newman

When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.

John Galsworthy

I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.

John Ortberg

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.

John Mulaney

Maybe I just have high self-esteem, but I have a lot that I really enjoy.

John Calvin

Hypocrisy can plunge the mind of a man into a dark abyss, when he believes his own self-flattery instead of God's verdict.

Garry Trudeau

Isn't it possible that self-esteem isn't causal at all, but simply the happy side effect of a sturdy character, itself the product of unambiguous moral education?

Geena Davis

When I was a model, actually, for a little while, my friend that I worked with a lot, she had horrible self-esteem too. We decided that the exact moment when we actually thought we were attractive, we wouldn't be any more. We would just, like, miss it.

Geena Davis

I had very, very bad self-esteem - that I was a fake, everybody was going to find out, that I didn't deserve to have success, just about my looks and really, really bad self esteem.