Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Holden

No amount of self-improvement can make up for any lack of self-acceptance.

Rick Pitino

People with high self esteem are risk takers, but more importantly, they are achievers.

Rick Riordan

Juno: "The heroes of olympus must unite! After your victory over kronos in manhattan...well I fear that wounded jupiter's self-esteem." Percy: Cause I was right and he was wrong" Juno: "He should be used to that after being married to me so long, but alas.

Ron Howard

Confidence is preparation in action.

Rollo May

Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant.

Stacy London

Self-esteem doesn't come simply from dressing well, but they are both something we can control. It's a missed opportunity when women say they don't have the money, figure, etc., because style is such a way to help cultivate the way women feel about themselves.

Stacy London

We all put obstacles in our own path toward personal style, myself included. If we understood why we constructed these practical and emotional obstacles, we might move beyond it to healthier, happier perceptions of ourselves and, ideally, a better sense of self-esteem.

Stacy London

Your self-esteem won't come from body parts. You need to step away from the mirror every once in a while, and look for another reflection, like the one in the eyes of the people who love you and admire you.

Stefan Zweig

There is nothing that so raises a young man's self-esteem, that so contributes to the formation of his character as for him to find himself unexpectedly confronted with a task which he has to accomplish entirely on his own initiative and by his own efforts.

William James

Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.

Whoopi Goldberg

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

Whoopi Goldberg

For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues.

Saint Augustine

Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.

Van Wyck Brooks

Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.

Robin Williams

You're best when you're not in charge. The ego locks the muse.

Thomas Sowell

The promotion of "self-esteem" in our schools has been so successful that people feel free to spout off about all sorts of things - and see no reason why their opinions should not be taken as seriously as the views of people who actually know what they are talking about.

Thomas Sowell

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.

Robert H. Schuller

The Cross sanctifies the ego trip. For the Cross protected our Lord's perfect self-esteem from turning into sinful pride.

Robert H. Schuller

To be born again means that we must be changed from a negative to a positive self-image - from inferiority to self-esteem, from fear to love, from doubt to trust.

Tucker Max

Motherfucker. She leaves me no choice. Now I have to break her self-esteem, sleep with her and steal the shirt.

Tupac Shakur

I feel like our future is our confidence and self-esteem.

Tracy McMillan

Women with low self-esteem love bad boys. Women who have work to do love bad boys. Women who love themselves love good men.

Sarah Dessen

Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine.

Roseanne Barr

Self-esteem is the goddamn root of all evil.

Roseanne Barr

Those who can't do, teach. And, as Woody Allen says, those who can't teach, teach gym. And, as I say, those who can't teach gym become experts. That's who we look to for answers these days-the people telling you how to make your marriage work. Men telling women how to raise their self-esteem. The only thing that cures everything is talking to people who have the same problem you do. The rest is just a moneymaking bullshit scheme that some asshole is getting rich on.

Roger Ebert

Low self esteem involves imagining the worst that other people can think about you.

Samuel Johnson

Wisdom and virtue are by no means sufficient, without the supplemental laws of good-breeding, to secure freedom from degenerating into rudeness, or self esteem from swelling into insolence. A thousand incivilities may be committed, and a thousand offices neglected. without any remorse of conscience, or reproach from reason.

Winston Churchill

I know of no case where a man added to his dignity by standing on it.

Woodrow Wilson

One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

Woodrow Wilson

All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation.

William Hazlitt

The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.

Willa Cather

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.

Wayne Dyer

You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being - not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money - but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.