Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Johnson

He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

Cornel West

You've got to love yourself enough, not only so that others will be able to love you, but that you'll be able to love others.

Common

I attribute my ability to maintain cool to God, self-esteem, and knowing my purpose in life. It can't be based on anything material or external.

Amity Gaige

To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who you are.

Ram Dass

You can't build joy on a feeling of self-loathing.

Ram Dass

You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing.

Danica McKellar

I noticed there were so many people, especially women, who would come up to me having recognized me from TV and say, 'I heard you were a math person, why math? Oh my gosh, I could never do math!' I could just see their self-esteem crumbling; I thought that was silly, so I wanted to make math more friendly and accessible.

Condoleezza Rice

You know, life is not one in which you just get to choose the things every day that come easily to you. And it's also true - and this is the self-esteem problem - you learn that there are people who are better at things than you are.

Condoleezza Rice

Self esteem comes from achievements. Not from lax standards and false praise.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

Meryl Streep

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

Robert Johnson

Measure yourself by your best moments, not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression.

Alice Miller

We can never do the right thing as long as we are out to please someone else.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

The false pride of perennial celebration, of wearing flag lapel pins while betraying the values that the flag stands for, is like the self-esteem curriculum for toddlers, where everything is praised and no achievement ultimately has meaning.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too.

Anne Lamott

I can never tell what I'm doing when I'm in the middle of publication because I have no confidence. I have terrible self-esteem, along with boundless narcissism.

Anne Lamott

I have a giant ego and terrible self-esteem, so I need to hit the re-set button fairly regularly - to get into presence, and humility, and being right-sized.

Anna Chlumsky

I didn't want to go down any scarier path of low self-esteem than I was already on the track for. So during my second year of college I was like, 'I'm over it! I have to go see what this other thing called life is about!

Albert Bandura

People who are insecure about themselves will avoid social comparisons that are potentially threatening to their self-esteem

Albert Ellis

Is self-esteem a sickness? That's according to the way you define it. In the usual way it is defined by people and by psychologists, I'd say that it is probably the greatest emotional disturbance known to man and woman.

Albert Ellis

Attempts to help humans eliminate all self-ratings and views self-esteem as a self-defeating concept that encourages them to make conditional evaluations of self. Instead, it teaches people unconditional self-acceptance.

Albert Ellis

Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.

Clay Aiken

The biggest problem I had - and the biggest problem teenagers have - is not how they dress, how they look or how they act or talk. It's how they see themselves - their self-esteem. In the tenth grade, I realized I am who I am. I've got big ears and big feet. I can etiher sulk around or I can be happy with who I am. The minute I decided to be confident with who I was, all that other stuff stopped. It's all in the way you carry yourself.

Clayton Christensen

When I have my interview with my God, our conversation will focus on the individuals whose self-esteem I was able to strengthen, whose faith I was able to reinforce, and whose discomfort I was able to assuage—a doer of good, regardless of what assignment I had. These are the metrics of that matter in measuring my life. This realization, which occurred nearly fifteen years ago, guided me every day to seek opportunities to help people in ways tailored to their individual circumstances. My happiness and my sense of worth has been immeasurably improved as a result.

Daniel Kahneman

Facts that challenge basic assumptions-and thereby threaten people's livelihood and self-esteem-are simply not absorbed. The mind does not digest them.

Daniel Defoe

Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.

Alexa Chung

I just think that whole culture of hatred, and also feeling like it's your right to judge people when you don't know them, is really f***ed up. So I'm pleased I experienced that side of it, so I can learn to be a better person on the other side of it. I'm sure in the past I've been judgmental too ... Self esteem, that's something you've got to work on yourself. I know for me it's different day to day.

Drew Barrymore

I used to look in the mirror and feel shame, I look in the mirror now and I absolutely love myself.

Donna Summer

You've got to maintain your level of self-esteem through everything. You are who you are, and nobody will ever be able to take that from you if you don't let them

Dale Earnhardt

I've had confidence in myself all along. It was just a matter of getting the pieces back in place.

Craig Sheffer

You can't compare an apple to an orange. It will cause a lot of self esteem issues.

Daniel Radcliffe

I used to be self conscious about my height, but then I thought, f*** that, I'm Harry Potter.

Cynthia Heimel

Throughout their lives, women try to pummel their bodies into some phantom ideal shape that exists only with a lot of airbrushing. ... I don't blame men for this. Men seem to go for us no matter what size and shape we are. I blame capitalism. No, really. The consumer must constantly be in a state of anxious low self-esteem so that she will constantly buy lipsticks and girdles to make her feel cuter.