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.

— Geoffrey F. Abert

If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

— Alexander The Great

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.

— Marcus Aurelius

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

— Lucille Ball

Study to be what you wish to seem.

— John Bate

Our value is the sum of our values.

— Joe Batten

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

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.

— Nathaniel Branden

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

— Buddha

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

— Albert Einstein

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

— Malcolm S. Forbes

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.

— John Fowles

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

— Sigmund Freud

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

— David Garrick

Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

— Baltasar Gracian

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

— Jane Haddam

The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.

— William Hazlitt

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.

— Heinrich Heine

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.

— Alice Mary Hilton

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

— Eric Hoffer

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

— Eric Hoffer

Whatever your job, it is important if it is what God wants you to do.

— Henry Jacobsen

He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

— Johnson

That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.

— Samuel Johnson

The highest in God's esteem are the lowest in their own.

— Thomas Kempis

A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves.

— Jean De La Bruyere

We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.

— Jean De La Bruyere

The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others.

— Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Seriously, I do not think I fit for the presidency.

— Abraham Lincoln

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

— John Locke

I'll always be number 1 to myself.

— Moses Malone

Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.

— Maxwell Maltz

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

— Nellie Mcclung

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.

— Karl A. Menninger

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

— John Milton

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

— Doris Mortman

He who despises himself nevertheless esteems himself as a self-despiser.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Until you value yourself you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

— M. Scott Peck

One is rated by others as he rates himself.

— French Proverb

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

— Jim Rohn

The ablest man I ever met is the man you think you are.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Before everyone stands a image of what he ought to be. So long as he is not that his peace is not complete.

— Ruckett

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

— Vida D. Scudder

No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

— Henry Wheeler Shaw

I am as my creator made me and since He is satisfied, so am I.

— Minnie Smith

The greatest success, is successful self acceptance.

— Ben Sweet

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

— U. Thant

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

— Brian Tracy

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

— Brian Tracy

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

— Brian Tracy

The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.

— Mark Twain

Acknowledgment -- If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.

— Source Unknown

You're not what you think you are; you're not what others think you are; you're what you think others think you are!

— Source Unknown

Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate.

— Source Unknown

SELF-ESTEEM controls PERFORMANCE/REALITY which stimulate SELF-TALK which reinforces SELF-ESTEEM. This cycle can work positively or negatively and is greatly influenced by the self-talk (I knew I wasn't good at -X vs. next time I'll practice and do better at -X).

— Source Unknown

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

— Denis Waitley

Blessed are they who heal us of self-despising. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious.

— William Hale White

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

— Walt Whitman

All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation.

— Woodrow T. Wilson