Quotes about self
self-esteem opinion respecting-others
I have to respect other's opinions even if I don't agree with them. Nathaniel Branden
self-esteem integrity effort
The desire for self-esteem without integrity is like the desire for wealth without effort-a longing for the unearned.
self-esteem fighting important
Your life is important. Fight for it. Honour your highest potentials.
self-esteem fall acceptance
Where we see self esteem, we see self acceptance. High self esteem individual tend to avoid falling into an adversarial relationship with themselves.
self-esteem differences important
Of all the judgments you make in life, none is as important as the one you make about yourself. The difference between low self-esteem and high self-esteem is the difference between passivity and action, between failure and success.
self-esteem exercise thinking
It is easy enough to say, Be true to your values. But what if your values are irrational? Or what if the virtues you have committed yourself to are so much against human nature that they cannot be practiced consistently? Be careful of what you accept as your code of morality. Think carefully about whether its tenets serve your life and well being. Exercise critical judgment. Realize how much is at stake-your life, your happiness, your self-esteem.
self-esteem self-confidence self-respect
If you feel inadequate to face challenges, unworthy of love or respect, untitled to happiness, and fear assertive thought, wants, or needs- if you lack basic self trust, self-respect, and self-confidence- your self-esteem deficiency will limit you, no matter what other assets you possess.
self-esteem self-confidence important
The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.
self-esteem moving talking
As you grow in self-esteem, your face, manner, way of talking and moving will tend naturally to project the pleasure you take in being alive.
self-esteem feelings exposure
To attain "success" without attaining positive self-esteem is to be condemned to feeling like an imposter anxiously awaiting exposure.
self achievement feelings
The greatest barrier to achievement and success is not lack of talent or ability but rather the feeling that achievement and success, above a certain level, are outside our self-concept-our image of who we are and what is appropriate to us.
self-esteem reality choices
Your choices have psychological consequences. The way you choose to deal with reality, truth, facts - your choice to honor or dishonor your own perceptions - registers in your mind, for good or for bad, and either confirms and strengthens your self-esteem or undermines and weakens it.
self expression challenges
One of the hardest expressions of self-assertiveness is challenging your limiting beliefs.
self-esteem integrity expression
In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity, those who preserve their self-esteem are likely to be heroic exceptions.
self-esteem stress practice
Stressing the practice of living purposefully as essential to fully realized self-esteem is not equivalent to measuring an individual's worth by his or her external achievements. We admire achievements-in ourselves and others-and it is natural and appropriate for us to do so. But that is not the same thing as saying that our achievements are the measure or grounds of our self-esteem. The root of our self-esteem is not our achievements but those internally generated practices that, among other things, make it possible for us to achieve.
self-esteem recovery emotional
If you have high self-esteem, you might still know times of emotional suffering, but less often and with faster recovery-your resilience is greater.
self guilt done
What is guilt? It is moral self-reproach-I did wrong when it was possible to have done otherwise.
self-esteem home people
We tend to feel most comfortable, "most at home", with people whose self esteem level resembles our own.
self-esteem self-worth possibility
Our motive is not to prove our self-worth, but to live up to our possibilities.
self-esteem stronger needs
The higher our self-esteem, the stronger the drive to express ourselves, reflecting the sense of richness within. The lower our self-esteem, the more urgent the need to "prove" ourselves or to forget ourselves by living mechanically and unconsciously.
self-esteem eye acceptance
The more you surrender to the fear of someone's disapproval, the more you lose face in your own eyes, and the more desperate you become for someone's approval. Within you is a void that should have been filled by self-esteem. When you attempt to fill it with the approval of others instead, the void grows deeper and the hunger for acceptance and approval grows stronger. The only solution is to summon the courage to honor your own judgment, frightening though that may be in the beginning.
self-esteem expression accomplishment
Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.
self-esteem greatness destiny
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not. Nathaniel Hawthorne
self irony logic
Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity. Moss Hart
self deception tools
Self-deception is sometimes as necessary a tool as a crowbar.
self hatred promise
The self-hatred that destroys is the waste of unfulfilled promise.
selfish people self-centered
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. Mother Teresa
selfish proud easy
It is easy to be proud & harsh & selfish - so easy. But we have been created for better things.
self desire self-centered
It is only by frequent deaths of ourselves and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully.
selfish
I don't see anything wrong with telling someone that you are selfish with their love and that you can't stand sharing them with anyone else. Vic Fuentes
self goal upset
There exists a special self which takes every event as if it were the very thing you wanted to happen. That self is the Supermind, which is never upset by anything. Your goal is to nourish it into greater strength. Then, every step is sunlit. Vernon Howard
self unseen behavior
All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.
self awakening chaos
Self awakening enables you to see the human scene as it is, not as it appears to be, which frees you of its chaos.