Quotes About Self-esteem

How few young men realize that their success in life depends more upon what they are than upon what they know. It is self-esteem that has brought the race this far.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.

Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up.

To attain "success" without attaining positive self-esteem is to be condemned to feeling like an imposter anxiously awaiting exposure.

Trophies should go to the winners. Self-esteem does not lead to success in life. Self-discipline and self-control do, and sports can help teach those.

Self-esteem is directly linked to deserving success. You must deserve victory to feel good about yourself.

Success is total self-acceptance.

Research has shown over and over again that the more you acknowledge your past successes, the more confident you become in taking on and successfully accomplishing new ones.

We are all born worthy. Worthy of love, worthy of success.

Every child should be taught to expect success

Self-acceptanc e leads to success, not the other way around.

To double your net worth, double your self-worth. Because you will never exceed the height of your self-image.

I didn't have a whole lot of success getting dates, I was always a bit of a geek.

You need a string of successes behind you to buoy that self-image; otherwise, you have a terribly negative attitude about yourself and it is very unlikely you are going to succeed at anything.

People don't understand the pressure on me to look perfect.

I had very, very bad self-esteem - that I was a fake, everybody was going to find out, that I didn't deserve to have success, just about my looks and really, really bad self-esteem.

When you want to obtain something touching a man's self-respect, you must spare his pride even the appearance of suffering.

Now, I entertain a ridiculous partiality for my head, it seems to suit my shoulders so correctly.

To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge for conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

To be human means to feel inferior.

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

I don't think I'm the smart sister, Isabel said. You are, Sophie told her. You just have a lot to learn.

The automatic, natural contact with his own emotions and needs gives an individual strength and self-esteem. He may experience his feelings—sadness, despair, or the need for help—without fear of making the mother insecure. He can allow himself to be afraid when he is threatened, angry when his wishes are not fulfilled. He knows not only what he does not want but also what he wants and is able to express his wants, irrespective of whether he will be loved or hated for it.