Top 100 Self Esteem Esteem Quotes
#1. It is naive to think that self-assertiveness is easy. To live self-assertively
which means to live authentically
is an act of high courage. That is why so many people spend the better part of their lives in hiding
from others and also from themselves.
Nathaniel Branden
#2. When you believe that other people think highly of you, your level of self-acceptance and self-esteem goes straight up.
Brian Tracy
#3. As long as we depend on other women for self-esteem, using them as bad examples or fantasy versions - special, powerful - of ourselves, they remain stuck in a narcissistic version of themselves, too.
Koren Zailckas
#4. The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
Andre Malraux
#7. In God's eyes, no one on this planet is any better than you.
Wayne Dyer
#8. A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine.
Vera Nazarian
#10. Brazilians need to work on their own national pride. I always think that they suffer from national low-self esteem. It's a lesser-developed country, and they have struggled so much. Sometimes they have an attitude that, if it's Brazilian, it can't be good.
Amy Irving
#11. Remember that nothing is so damaging to self-esteem as waiting for a telephone or door-bell that doesn't ring.
Marjorie Hillis
#12. Always remember, no matter how big you get in life, God is still bigger; when you feel to be at your lowest point, Satan is still at the bottom.
Anthony Liccione
#13. You do not need to pay attention to those voices within you that create pain, or make you feel less competent, smart or able.
Sanaya Roman
#15. You agree - I'm sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for.
Agatha Christie
#16. The biggest secret of self-esteem is this: Begin to appreciate other people more; show respect for any human being merely because he is a child of God and therefore a thing of value.
Maxwell Maltz
#17. I believed almost every negative thing that I ever heard someone say about me.
Mark L. Baynard
#18. Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
Saint Augustine
#19. I put on a show of confidence as often as I could, but inside, I was a befuddled mess. I secretly wished my mother would live forever. - Merrick Delmar
Heidi Peltier
#20. You will never attain and maintain more than you think you deserve.
Rob Liano
#21. There is no other company in the world I've found more pleasurable than my own. For no one else has ever been as accepting of me or as thoroughly entertained by my quirkiness. It is a sweet thing to like yourself.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#22. You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.
Maxwell Maltz
#23. Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.
Naomi Wolf
#25. Happiness is being at home your own skin and being able to occupy your life.
Lisa Cypers Kamen
#26. To turn your dreams into reality, all your resources, efforts and concentration should be aligned in the same direction.
Roopleen
#27. I am not someone who throws around the word 'self-esteem.' It is a fictional description.
Nicolle Wallace
#28. Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine.
Sarah Dessen
#29. If you want to save capitalism there is only one type of argument that you should adopt, the only one that has ever won in any moral issue: the argument from self-esteem. Check your premises, convince yourself of the rightness of your cause, then fight for capitalism with full, moral certainty.
Ayn Rand
#30. No matter how useful we may be, sometimes it takes us a while to recognize our own value.
Benjamin Hoff
#31. 10. Comparison is the root of all feelings of inferiority. The moment you begin examining other people's strengths against your most obvious weaknesses, your self-esteem starts to crumble!
James C. Dobson
#32. We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.
Shakti Gawain
#33. I'm just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
Al Yankovic
#34. Often, it is such negative thoughts and negative self affirmations that cripple your self confidence. No one is to say how long it will take you to reclaim back your self-esteem but what remains constant, is that the journey towards that achievement must start now!
T. Whitmore
#35. There is that gnawing feeling that we are far more than what we believe ourselves to be. Maybe it's time to believe the gnawing.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#36. I want to be alone. Sympathies wasted on my hollow shell. I feel there's nothing left to fight for. No reason for a cause.
Sarah McLachlan
#37. If you believe that you can use sex to shore up your fragile self-esteem by stealing someone else's, we feel sorry for you, because this will never work to build a solid sense of self worth, and you will have to go on stealing more and more and never getting fulfilled.
Dossie Easton
#38. I think I always had joie de vivre. But I had pretty bad self-esteem growing up and much of my adult life.
Geena Davis
#39. Write it on your heart you are the most beautiful soul of the Universe. Realize it, honor it and celebrate the life.
Amit Ray
#40. Self-discipline is the ability to organize your behavior over time in the service of specific goals.
Nathaniel Branden
#41. This country is a lot better at teaching self-esteem than it is at teaching math.
William Bennett
#42. These are big trade-offs for a simple piece of cake - add five hundred calories, subtract well-being, allure, and self-esteem - and the feelings behind them are anything but vain or shallow.
Caroline Knapp
#43. The opposite of self-assertiveness is self-abnegation
abandoning or submerging your personal values, judgment, and interests. Some people tell themselves this is a virtue. It is a "virtue" that corrodes self-esteem.
Nathaniel Branden
#44. It is very possible to acknowledge another person's concerns without entering into their vibration.
Alaric Hutchinson
#45. Our choices in life are made according to our sense of our own worth.
Kaylan Pickford
#46. To attain "success" without attaining positive self-esteem is to be condemned to feeling like an imposter anxiously awaiting exposure.
Nathaniel Branden
#47. The American Gun movement is actually very easy to understand. All of them, little boys with self esteem issues, exacerbated by an ever-present gun/phallic relation disorder. Apparently big guns fit well in small hands.
T. Rafael Cimino
#48. Embrace and love all of yourself - past, present, and future. Forgive yourself quickly and as often as necessary. Encourage yourself. Tell yourself good things about yourself.
Melody Beattie
#49. Being born was the worse and the first mistake I ever made. The doctor didn't spank me, he just slapped me in the face.
Dolly Parton
#50. I've got the girl disease. Low self-esteem. We give it to each other. It's a thing.
Marata Eros
#51. Our words reveal our thoughts; our manners mirror our self-esteem; our actions reflect our character; our habits predict the future.
William Arthur Ward
#52. All positive interactions with other human beings involve, to some degree, the experience of visibility
that is, the experience of being seen and understood.
Nathaniel Branden
#55. All of the years I spent trying to be someone you could be proud of would have been better spent being proud of myself for who I already was.
Paula Heller Garland
#56. At long last, somebody believes in her. Tonight in this exchange she has gained the tools with which she will build her self esteem: She has been chosen and she has security. Maybe this is all that a person ever needs to succeed. Pearl has been picked, and that has begun to define her.
Adriana Trigiani
#58. I've never disliked myself, and my weight has had nothing to do with my self-esteem.
Dawn French
#59. Honor is self-esteem made visible in action.
Ayn Rand
#60. Respect, reverence, self-esteem
Are my basic requisites
I refuse to be a competitor
Who struggles for personal rights
Balroop Singh
#61. Over Thinking can be extremely destructive, and may often be a sign of low confidence or low self-esteem.
Barbara Gain
#63. Put on your lips success creeds every day. Never see yourself as an unworthy being, incapable of receiving good gifts from God.
Israelmore Ayivor
#64. Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.
Jack Canfield
#67. No matter how rich, powerful or handsome he is, he is still just a man.
Rebecca Warner
#68. He was part of a ruined generation of young men coddled by their parents -by their mothers especially- raised on unearned self-esteem, in a bubble of overaffection, in a sad incubator of phony achievement.
Jess Walter
#69. When you express "purity" which is the truth about yourself, you feel a love for yourself that is expressed by self-respect, self-esteem, and self-confidence!
Tae Yun Kim
#70. Sometimes it just feels so amazing to finally stand up for yourself. I highly recommend it. Life is too short to be taken for granted.
Demi Lovato
#71. People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#72. Trade your bitterness with gratefulness. You will find joy of life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#73. I used to take it personally when a casting director didn't like me or I didn't get picked for something. Now I realize you can't do that. It'll mess with your self-esteem. Don't take rejection overly personally. If that doesn't work out, there's something else waiting for you.
Sierra McCormick
#74. Why would you put your self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?
Helen Banham Carter
#75. You marry at the level of your self-esteem, make sure you have self worth.
Marie Osmond
#76. Positive thoughts revive the spirit, restore the soul and make the body healthy.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#77. Sometimes I'm not always doing amazing but it's okay ... because everyone struggles and it's okay to be flawed because that's what makes me ... Me.
Demi Lovato
#78. For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms.
Anne Lamott
#79. You are that blue-white diamond, so treat yourself like a Tiffany.
Sharon Law Tucker
#80. Any time you think limitation it is not spiritual or god based,
Frank Healy
#81. What would it be like to look in the mirror and actually accept what you see? Not loathe the reflection, or despise it, or be resigned to it? But to like it?
Justina Chen
#82. An external locus of identity is unhealthy and yet the very thing that social media encourages in those with low self-esteem.
Sam Owen
#84. If I were to search for the central core of difficulty in people as I have come to know them, it is that in the great majority of cases they despise themselves, regarding themselves as worthless and unlovable.
Carl Rogers
#85. The individual who knows the score about life sees difficulties as opportunities
Norman Vincent Peale
#86. The only currency that you alone can devalue is your integrity.
J. Bartell
#87. I looked in the mirror at my pigeon chest, I had to put my clothes on cause it made me depressed.
Ray Davies
#89. There are so many more important things to worry about than how you're perceived by strangers.
Dennis Lehane
#90. Your life is important. Fight for it. Honour your highest potentials.
Nathaniel Branden
#91. It's very validating when you are new in the industry to get awards. It boosts your self-esteem.
Sheena Easton
#92. People who are insecure about themselves will avoid social comparisons that are potentially threatening to their self-esteem
Albert Bandura
#93. Self-esteem cannot be directly injected. It needs to result from doing well, from being warranted.
Martin Seligman
#95. You are greater than you can possibly imagine, if you would only free yourself up to imagine.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#96. And I can't even go to the grocery store without some ones that's clean and a shirt with a team/It seems we living the American dream but people highest up got the lowest self esteem/The prettiest people do the ugliest things for the road to riches and diamond rings.
Kanye West
#99. To be an actor, a lot of times it's a strange combination of high confidence and low self-esteem. Which is a weird combination to have, but I think it's sort of very common among actors.
Kurt Fuller
