Quotes About Self-esteem

Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power. • • • Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.

I believe that a life of integrity is the most fundamental source of personal worth. I do not agree with the popular success literature that says that self-esteem is primarily a matter of mind set, of attitude—that you can psych yourself into peace of mind. Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.

if you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like yourself, except in some short-term, psych-up, superficial way.

that nurtures the self-esteem and self-worth of each, that creates opportunities for each to mature into independence and then gradually into interdependence? Could synergy not

The same is true with parenting. If you want to raise responsible, self-disciplined children, you have to keep that end clearly in mind as you interact with your children on a daily basis. You can't behave toward them in ways that undermine their self-discipline or self-esteem.

If our sense of emotional worth comes primarily from our marriage, then we become highly dependent upon that relationship.

Because we saw him as fundamentally adequate and able to cope with life, we stopped protecting him against the ridicule of others.

There's a reason I always look nice when I go to work." I kept a scowl on my face while she hustled me upstairs. "Because you'll get fired if you look like a slob?" "Because, my little grouch, it makes me feel better on the inside if I like how I look on the outside.

Tengo que esforzarme más para lograr mi objetivo de no solicitar la aprobación de aquellas personas cuya aprobación ni siquiera estoy seguro de que es importante para mí. LAUREN GRAHAM, ACTOR

Self-concept, says Nathaniel Branden, is destiny.

Stop worrying about what you think of yourself and start building a track record that proves that you can motivate yourself to do whatever you want to do.

Mirabelle is not affected by a man's failures to approach her, as her own self-depreciating attitude never allows the idea that he would in the first place.

She has simply never quite learned to walk or hold herself comfortably

This does not mean you are "losing it" or are "not playing with a full deck" or are "not all there" or that you're "eating with the dirigibles" or "shellacking the waxed egg" or "looking inside your own mind and finding nothing there," or any of the other demeaning epithets that are said about people who are peeling an empty banana.

We associate truth with convenience," he wrote, "with what most closely accords with self-interest and personal well-being or promises best to avoid awkward effort or unwelcome dislocation of life. We also find highly acceptable what contributes most to self-esteem.

Human beings, for all our accomplishments, can be fragile animals. Most of us don't take criticism well at all.

Violence is a problem not of too little self-esteem but of too much, particularly when it is unearned.

I love the way my weight fluctuates in the newspapers. It was 18 stone and then people look at a bad picture of me and add a few more stone on. I think the highest was 22 stone.

The main health hazard in the world today is people who don't love themselves.

I love my red hair. It makes me spunkier.

Self-esteem and self-love are the opposites of fear; the more you like yourself, the less you fear anything.

Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.