Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Paine

Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.

Thomas Browne

All the wonders you seek are within yourself.

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.

Walt Whitman

I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.

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.

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.

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.

Tracey Gold

When I was 19 years old, I came down with anorexia. I had it for about a year before it became public. And it had a lot to do with my self-esteem.

Roxane Gay

I approach most things in life with a dangerous level of confidence to balance my generally low self-esteem.

Robert Sternberg

But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this little box and then do their research inside it.

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.

Wayne Dyer

Self-esteem comes from the self, not from acquisitions and approval.

There are, however, exceptions to this reliance on feelings as evidence of truth: if, for instance, your feelings lead to disbelief instead of belief, they're apt to be dismissed as some form of denial. This is not a common problem. Usually intellectualism, not feeling reality, is blamed for disbelief. But, some angel experts suggest, there may be emotional as well as intellectual barriers to belief: unwillingness to believe in angels can reflect low self-esteem.

Wayne Dyer

In God's eyes, no one on this planet is any better than you.

Wayne Dyer

You have a one of a kind gift to offer this world, and you are unique in the entire history of creation.

Wayne Dyer

Be aware of your infinite connection to your source. Know that you're more than an encapsulated collection of bones, blood and organs in a skin and hair covered body.

Wayne Dyer

Accept that you are enough. You don't need to be anything that you are not.

Wayne Dyer

What you feel is wrong or missing in your relationships is an indication that something is amiss within you.

Wayne Dyer

You... and only you choose your thoughts.

William Arthur Ward

Our words reveal our thoughts; our manners mirror our self-esteem; our actions reflect our character; our habits predict the future.

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.

Victoria Moran

It's probably unfair to expect the world at large, or even most people, to see us for all we are. It is essential, however, that we see ourselves for all we are.