Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Rupert Grint

It's always at the back of my mind that acting might come to an end for me when Harry Potter finishes. I don't know if I'm good enough to have a long career. I've got a bit of an inferiority complex about my acting. My self-esteem is quite low in that sense.

Tom Robbins

Self-esteem is for sissies. Accept that you're a pimple and try to keep a lively sense of humor about it. That way lies grace - and maybe even glory.

Stephen Covey

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

Stephen Covey

Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.

Thomas Merton

There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.

Tony Dorsett

Everything starts with yourself-with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life.

Steven Heighton

To listen to critics, pro or con, and take their words to heart is to subcontract your self-esteem to strangers. (from Workbook)

Steve-O

Being a vegan just helps me build up my self-esteem. I feel good about it every time I eat a meal.

Steve McQueen

The world is as good as you are. You've got to learn to like yourself first.

With color, for the price of a pot of paint, people can express their own style and individuality. But, as with style, a gift for color has to be developed by experiment. If you don't dare, you are doomed to dullness.

Shelley Long

I think, head up and shoulders back. Not only does it make you look taller and thinner but it gives you confidence and boosts your self-esteem.

Steven Pinker

Perhaps the most extraordinary popular delusion about violence of the past quarter-century is that it is caused by low self-esteem. That theory has been endorsed by dozens of prominent experts, has inspired school programs designed to get kids to feel better about themselves, and in the late 1980s led the California legislature to form a Task Force to Promote Self-Esteem. Yet Baumeister has shown that the theory could not be more spectacularly, hilariously, achingly wrong. Violence is a problem not of too little self-esteem but of too much, particularly when it is unearned.

Susan Jeffers

As we open our hearts to others, we begin to discover the truth of our own inner beauty, inner strength and inner light.

Susan Jeffers

Every time you encounter something that forces you to “handle it,” your self-esteem is raised considerably. You learn to trust that you will survive, no matter what happens. And in this way your fears are diminished immeasurably.

Susan Jeffers

No matter what response you get from anyone you meet, You are a worthwhile person.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

T. D. Jakes

There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don't get them.

Suze Orman

When you undervalue who you are, the world will undervalue what you do and vice versa.

Kofi Annan

The number one goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintain their self-esteem. You don't hit a man on the head when you've got your fingers between his teeth.

Kelly Osbourne

I was called fat and ugly in the press almost my entire life. I understand that being judged by others comes with the territory, but it broke my heart and ruined my self-esteem.

Katy Perry

Find out what your gift is and nurture it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings

Sean William Scott

I wish I had more confidence.

Laurie David

The table is the number one place we pass on family stories and it's the knowledge of where your family came from that helps build self-esteem and resiliency in kids. When we stop having dinners, we stop passing on those stories. And, of course, when you make food at home you actually know what's in the food you are eating. It is the healthiest, greenest thing you can do!

Laurie Halse Anderson

There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.

Laurie Halse Anderson

I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.

Terry Tempest Williams

What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.

Simone de Beauvoir

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

St. Jerome

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

Ron Kaufman

You do more for yourself when you forget yourself.

Ray Romano

It seems to be a common denominator with a lot of comics, this low self-esteem thing.