Quotes about self-esteem

"When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life."

Abert, Geoffrey F. on self-esteem
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"If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes."

Alexander The Great on self-esteem
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"I have often wondered how it is everyone loves himself more than the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than the opinions of others."

Aurelius, Marcus on self-esteem
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"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world."

Ball, Lucille on self-esteem
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"Study to be what you wish to seem."

Bate, John on self-esteem
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"Our value is the sum of our values."

Batten, Joe on self-esteem
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"I will give thanks to thee for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are Thy works, and my soul knows it very well. [Psalms 139:14]"

Bible on self-esteem
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"To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem."

Branden, Nathaniel on self-esteem
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"Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others."

Buddha on self-esteem
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"Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized."

Einstein, Albert on self-esteem
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"Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on self-esteem
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"It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on self-esteem
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"It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on self-esteem
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"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on self-esteem
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"There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not anymore what you will become. It is what you are and always will be."

Fowles, John on self-esteem
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"A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror."

Freud, Sigmund on self-esteem
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"You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance."

Garrick, David on self-esteem
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"Trust yourself, then you will know how to live."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on self-esteem
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"A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on self-esteem
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"Respect yourself if you would have others respect you."

Gracian, Baltasar on self-esteem
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"In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect... and no."

Haddam, Jane on self-esteem
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"The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves."

Hazlitt, William on self-esteem
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"While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues."

Heine, Heinrich on self-esteem
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"A person's worth is contingent upon who he is, not upon what he does, or how much he has. The worth of a person, or a thing, or an idea, is in being, not in doing, not in having."

Hilton, Alice Mary on self-esteem
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"Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem."

Hoffer, Eric on self-esteem
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"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings."

Hoffer, Eric on self-esteem
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"Whatever your job, it is important if it is what God wants you to do."

Jacobsen, Henry on self-esteem
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"He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them."

Johnson on self-esteem
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"That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem."

Johnson, Samuel on self-esteem
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"The highest in God's esteem are the lowest in their own."

Kempis, Thomas on self-esteem
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"A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves."

La Bruyere, Jean De on self-esteem
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"We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued."

La Bruyere, Jean De on self-esteem
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"The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on self-esteem
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"Seriously, I do not think I fit for the presidency."

Lincoln, Abraham on self-esteem
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"Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself."

Locke, John on self-esteem
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"I'll always be number 1 to myself."

Malone, Moses on self-esteem
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"Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on."

Maltz, Maxwell on self-esteem
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"Women who set a low value on themselves make life hard for all women."

Mcclung, Nellie on self-esteem
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"Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vise versa."

Menninger, Karl A. on self-esteem
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"Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right."

Milton, John on self-esteem
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