"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."

Whitman, Walt | self-esteem | 2 bookmarks

"Trust yourself, then you will know how to live."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von | self-esteem | 5 bookmarks

"One is rated by others as he rates himself."

Proverb, French | self-esteem | 0 bookmarks

"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 | self-esteem | 1 bookmarks

"A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror."

Freud, Sigmund | self-esteem | 3 bookmarks

"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 | self-esteem | 1 bookmarks

"Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true."

Tracy, Brian | self-esteem | 3 bookmarks

"Our value is the sum of our values."

Batten, Joe | self-esteem | 1 bookmarks

"The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image."

Tracy, Brian | self-esteem | 1 bookmarks

"We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives."

Tracy, Brian | self-esteem | 1 bookmarks

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

Milton, John | self-esteem | 2 bookmarks

"I'll always be number 1 to myself."

Malone, Moses | self-esteem | 1 bookmarks

"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have."

Mortman, Doris | self-esteem | 4 bookmarks

"Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves."

Thant, U. | self-esteem | 1 bookmarks

"You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance."

Garrick, David | self-esteem | 0 bookmarks

"Study to be what you wish to seem."

Bate, John | self-esteem | 2 bookmarks

"Women who set a low value on themselves make life hard for all women."

Mcclung, Nellie | self-esteem | 4 bookmarks

"A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von | self-esteem | 0 bookmarks

"Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized."

Einstein, Albert | self-esteem | 2 bookmarks

"Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed."

Scudder, Vida D. | self-esteem | 1 bookmarks

"There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals."

Stein, Ben | Goals | 0 bookmarks

"No one will do it for you."

Stein, Ben | Action | 2 bookmarks

"Nothing happens by itself. It all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions."

Stein, Ben | Responsibility | 0 bookmarks

"It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders."

Stein, Ben | Failure | 0 bookmarks

"Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done."

Stein, Ben | Planning | 0 bookmarks

"The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want."

Stein, Ben | Decisions | 0 bookmarks

"You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement."

Stein, Ben | Inertia | 0 bookmarks

"The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is."

Stein, Ben | Reality | 0 bookmarks

"The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy."

Stein, Ben | Happiness | 3 bookmarks

"You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot"

Stein, Ben | Belief | 0 bookmarks

"Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows."

Stein, Ben | Cooperation | 4 bookmarks

"The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be: But when he got well, a wolf once more was he."

Brower, Walter | Repentance | 2 bookmarks

"I wear my heart on my sleeve."

Diana, Princess of Wales | Heart | 2 bookmarks

"The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same."

Stendhal, Henri B. | Leaders and Leadership | 1 bookmarks

"The proverb warns; Don't bite the hand that feeds you. But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself."

Szasz, Thomas | Aid and Assistance | 1 bookmarks

"Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves."

Proverb, German | Conflict | 2 bookmarks

"I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom."

Patton, George S. | Failure | 6 bookmarks

"And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew."

Goldsmith, Oliver | Intelligence and Intellectuals | 2 bookmarks

"I do not love you

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

that this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep."

Neruda, Pablo | Lovers | 26 bookmarks