Quotes about self
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. Nathaniel Branden
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 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
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.
self-esteem snacks childhood
Back to my childhood where those monsters reside. They snack on innocence and dine on self esteem. Jimmy Buffett
selfish people faults
People are just self-centered-it's all about them. And we're telling people it's okay to be 'all about you' because you're a victim and it's not your fault. That's why society has gotten more and more belligerent and selfish. Jim Norton
self-esteem men coquette
She who only finds her self-esteem In others' admiration, begs an alms; Depends on others for her daily food, And is the very servant of her slaves; Tho' oftentimes, in a fantastic hour, O'er men she may a childish pow'r exert, Which not ennobles but degrades her state. Joanna Baillie
self boss pay
Simply making consistent investments in our self-education and knowledge banks pays major dividends throughout our lives. Jim Rohn
self-improvement firsts better-person
Those who seek a better life must first become a better person.
self-esteem discipline erode
The least lack of discipline starts to erode our self-esteem.
self insecurity poverty
Self-preservation has a tendency to lead to poverty.
self-esteem self-confidence critical-decisions
The greatest step toward success is self confidence. The greatest builder of self confidence is self esteem, and self esteem comes from doing the daily things you know you should do. Your self esteem will start to soar when you make some critical decisions - decisions to walk a new road, to start a new direction, to start a new discipline.
self-confidence self accomplishment
The greatest step toward accomplishment is self-confidence .
self-improvement influence
What you become directly influences what you get.
self-esteem ocean new-beginnings
Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.
self curves use
If you step up the self-education curve, you will come up with more answers than you can use.