Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

But inwardly we are as corrupt as the person who sits in an office and plans war-because, we want to be somebody in the family, in a group, in society, in the nation.

Gillian Anderson

Self-esteem should have nothing to do with what you look like – if you exude genuine confidence, people will be swept into it. You have to be able to hold yourself.

Lev Grossman

Though the funny thing about never being asked for anything is that after a while you start to feel like maybe you don’t have anything worth giving.

Neal A. Maxwell

If another person only had in his storehouse of deserved self-esteem what you had put there, what would he have to draw upon and to sustain him?

Neal A. Maxwell

Satan delights to have us put ourselves down. Self-contempt is of Satan. There is no such thing in heaven.

Neal A. Maxwell

I find that goal setting, when done this way, leads to goal achieving. The chronic failure to achieve goals lowers self-esteem. Show me a failure to achieve a goal, and usually I can show you the violation of one or more of the above criteria. Imposed goals, vague goals, and unrealistic goals tend to produce only partial successes and outright failures.

Muhammad Ali

I am the greatest. I said that even before I knew I was. Don't tell me I can't do something. Don't tell me it's impossible. Don't tell me I'm not the greatest. I'm the double greatest.

Margot Fonteyn

Take your work seriously, but never yourself.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Be an artist at whatever you do. Even if you are a street sweeper, be the Michelangelo of street sweepers.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.

Mark Victor Hansen

Whoever has the most energy wins. Energy gives one confidence, power, self-esteem and new possibilities.

Naomi Campbell

Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.

Mitt Romney

People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem.

Publilius Syrus

He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.

Portia de Rossi

The diet industry is making a lot of money selling us fad diets, nonfat foods full of chemicals, gym memberships, and pills while we lose a piece of our self-esteem every time we fail another diet or neglect to use the gym membership we could barely afford.

Portia de Rossi

If your self-esteem really does depend on how you look you're always going to be insecure. There's no way you can get around it because you are going to age. Even if you get that perfect body you're going to get older and older and older. You can't avid it. So you have to somehow, at some point, take control and sift the focus and decide who you are, what you can contribute to the world, what you do and say, is so much more important than how you look.

Niccolo Machiavelli

You know better than I that in a Republic talent is always suspect. A man attains an elevated position only when his mediocrity prevents him from being a threat to others. And for this reason a democracy is never governed by the most competent, but rather by those whose insignificance will not jeopardize anyone else's self-esteem.

Mike Myers

Most comedians want to be the architect of their own embarrassment. They have horrible self-esteem issues. I would rather push myself into the mud. I don't want to be pushed into the mud. I think that is probably true. I think most people struggle with self-acceptance. But comedians get a chance to self externalize.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Who would not want an illness that has among its symptoms elevated and expansive mood, inflated self-esteem, abundance of energy, less need for sleep, intensified sexuality, and- most germane to our argument here-"sharpened and unusually creative thinking" and "increased productivity"?

Oprah Winfrey

True self-esteem is realizing that you are valuable because you were born. No matter where you came from, what color your skin is, what people say about your family or what mean things people may have done to you, because you were born, you are important and you matter.

Oprah Winfrey

In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.

Oprah Winfrey

All these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown.

Oprah Winfrey

Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.

Oprah Winfrey

It's up to each of us to get very still and say, 'This is who I am.' No one else defines your life. Only you do.

Oprah Winfrey

What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection.

Margaret Atwood

You refuse to own yourself, you permit others to do it for you

Marcel Pagnol

The most difficult secret for a man to keep is the opinion he has of himself.

Kelly Clarkson

Never take advice from someone you wouldn't trade places with.

Kathy Ireland

If we get our self-esteem from superficial places, from our popularity, appearance, business success, financial situation, health, any of these, we will be disappointed, because no one can guarantee that we'll have them tomorrow.

L. Neil Smith

Socialism is, among other things, the political habitat of low self-esteem, incompetence, self-loathing, and a willingness to steal - or have stolen for you what you are unable or unwilling to work for. Socialism is a philosophy fit only for slugs, leaches, and mosquitoes.

Madonna Ciccone

I felt very awkward and out of place in school. Not popular, not attractive, not special in any way and I was longing for love and approval from someone.