Quotes about self-esteem
self-esteem together cybernetics
Our self image and our habits tend to go together. Change one and you will automatically change the other. Maxwell Maltz
self-esteem mean resilience
I'm not sure if resilience is ever achieved alone. Experience allows us to learn from example. But if we have someone who loves us-I don't mean who indulges us, but who loves us enough to be on our side-then it's easier to grow resilience, to grow belief in self, to grow self-esteem. And it's self-esteem that allows a person to stand up. Maya Angelou
self-esteem opposites higher
The lower our self-esteem, the more we're attracted to our opposite, and the higher our self-esteem, the more we are attracted to another like ourselves. Marilyn vos Savant
self-esteem safe-environment nerves
Stop asking for directions so much. Assuming that you're in a safe environment, pay attention and figure things out for yourself. Have the nerve to take a wrong turn now and then. You'll develop better working instincts and have more self-esteem too.
self-esteem suffering disease
I suffer the terrible disease of low self-esteem. Julie Bowen
self-esteem men thinking
I've talked to so many people, men and women alike, that get overweight and their self-esteem just goes in the tank. They think they're judged. They think they're unattractive. Phil McGraw
self-esteem play careers
My family has reduced the effect of my career on my self-esteem. When I'm with them, they make me feel special regardless of how I play. Phil Mickelson
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It would be hard to name a more certain sign of poor self-esteem than the need to perceive some other group as inferior. Nathaniel Branden
self-esteem people excess
High self esteem people can surely be knocked down by an excess of troubles, but they are quickerto pick themselves up again.
self-esteem esteem
Respect starts with ourselves.
self-esteem opposites achievement
To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem.
self-esteem opinion respecting-others
I have to respect other's opinions even if I don't agree with them.
self-esteem integrity effort
The desire for self-esteem without integrity is like the desire for wealth without effort-a longing for the unearned.
self-esteem fighting important
Your life is important. Fight for it. Honour your highest potentials.
self-esteem fall acceptance
Where we see self esteem, we see self acceptance. High self esteem individual tend to avoid falling into an adversarial relationship with themselves.
self-esteem differences important
Of all the judgments you make in life, none is as important as the one you make about yourself. The difference between low self-esteem and high self-esteem is the difference between passivity and action, between failure and success.
self-esteem exercise thinking
It is easy enough to say, Be true to your values. But what if your values are irrational? Or what if the virtues you have committed yourself to are so much against human nature that they cannot be practiced consistently? Be careful of what you accept as your code of morality. Think carefully about whether its tenets serve your life and well being. Exercise critical judgment. Realize how much is at stake-your life, your happiness, your self-esteem.
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If you feel inadequate to face challenges, unworthy of love or respect, untitled to happiness, and fear assertive thought, wants, or needs- if you lack basic self trust, self-respect, and self-confidence- your self-esteem deficiency will limit you, no matter what other assets you possess.
self-esteem self-confidence important
The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.
self-esteem moving talking
As you grow in self-esteem, your face, manner, way of talking and moving will tend naturally to project the pleasure you take in being alive.
self-esteem feelings exposure
To attain "success" without attaining positive self-esteem is to be condemned to feeling like an imposter anxiously awaiting exposure.
self-esteem reality choices
Your choices have psychological consequences. The way you choose to deal with reality, truth, facts - your choice to honor or dishonor your own perceptions - registers in your mind, for good or for bad, and either confirms and strengthens your self-esteem or undermines and weakens it.
self-esteem integrity expression
In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity, those who preserve their self-esteem are likely to be heroic exceptions.
self-esteem stress practice
Stressing the practice of living purposefully as essential to fully realized self-esteem is not equivalent to measuring an individual's worth by his or her external achievements. We admire achievements-in ourselves and others-and it is natural and appropriate for us to do so. But that is not the same thing as saying that our achievements are the measure or grounds of our self-esteem. The root of our self-esteem is not our achievements but those internally generated practices that, among other things, make it possible for us to achieve.
self-esteem recovery emotional
If you have high self-esteem, you might still know times of emotional suffering, but less often and with faster recovery-your resilience is greater.
self-esteem home people
We tend to feel most comfortable, "most at home", with people whose self esteem level resembles our own.
self-esteem self-worth possibility
Our motive is not to prove our self-worth, but to live up to our possibilities.
self-esteem stronger needs
The higher our self-esteem, the stronger the drive to express ourselves, reflecting the sense of richness within. The lower our self-esteem, the more urgent the need to "prove" ourselves or to forget ourselves by living mechanically and unconsciously.
self-esteem eye acceptance
The more you surrender to the fear of someone's disapproval, the more you lose face in your own eyes, and the more desperate you become for someone's approval. Within you is a void that should have been filled by self-esteem. When you attempt to fill it with the approval of others instead, the void grows deeper and the hunger for acceptance and approval grows stronger. The only solution is to summon the courage to honor your own judgment, frightening though that may be in the beginning.
self-esteem expression accomplishment
Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.
self-esteem greatness destiny
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not. Nathaniel Hawthorne
self-esteem self-respect self-control
Self-control is the chief element in self-respect and self-respect is the chief element in courage. Thucydides
self-esteem men titles
Titles are like a magicians wand which circumscribe human facility and prevent us from living the lives of man. Thomas Paine