Famous Quotes & Sayings

Moby

Once the pathological low self-esteem goes, that's when things go downhill.

Harry Stack Sullivan

If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.

Fred Rogers

There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.

Harold B. Lee

Every man stamps his value on himself. The price we challenge for ourselves is given us by others. -Man is made great or little by his own will.

Jean de la Bruyere

We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.

Jay Leno

I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good. Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.

Joseph Joubert

There is graciousness and a kind of urbanity in beginning with men by esteem and confidence. It proves, at least, that we have long lived in good company with others and with our selves.

Mike Dooley

Contrary to popular thinking, being worthy isn't something you earn, it's something you recognize.

Katherine Jenkins

Confidence is one of the sexiest things.

Gloria Steinem

Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force.

Gloria Steinem

Self-esteem is the basis of any democracy.

Gloria Steinem

I'm still the same person who grew up mostly in a Midwestern, factory-working neighborhood where talk about "self-esteem" would have seemed like a luxury.

Gloria Steinem

Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You never exist quite so much as when you are not thinking

Jennifer Aniston

You're damned if you're too thin and you're damned if you're too heavy. According to the press I've been both. Its impossible to satisfy everyone and I suggest we stop trying.

Gloria Gaynor

People always want to ask me about my drug problem - I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem problem!

Gloria Gaynor

Low self-esteem comes from who you assess yourself to be. It's about who you are, and I didn't think I was anything or anybody.

Gertrude Stein

Let me listen to me and not to them.

Iyanla Vanzant

We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem.

Iyanla Vanzant

Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem. We cannot draw to ourselves more than we think we are worth.

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.