Quotes About Self-esteem

It is evaluative praise that does not serve a child's interests. Appreciative praise, in contrast, can be productive both in supporting self-esteem and in reinforcing desired behavior.

Whereas self-esteem is something we experience, self-acceptance is something we do.

Empathy and compassion, no less than benevolence and cooperativeness, are far more likely to be found among persons of high self-esteem than among low;

If integrity is a source of self-esteem, then it is also, and never more so than today, an expression of self-esteem.

By this I mean that behaviors that generate good self-esteem are also expressions of good self-esteem.

Let me say further that one of the characteristics of persons with healthy self-esteem is that they tend to assess their abilities and accomplishments realistically, neither denying nor exaggerating them.

I thought: Freedom means change; the ability to manage change is at least in part a function of self-esteem. Sooner or later, all roads lead to self-esteem.

The more I live consciously, the more I trust my mind and respect my worth; and if I trust my mind and respect my worth, it feels natural to live consciously.

That is true. The virtues that self-esteem asks of us are also ones that life asks of us.

It would be hard to name a more certain sign of poor self-esteem than the need to perceive some other group as inferior.

The fact that we live among other human beings should not obscure the intimately personal nature of our need for a code of ethics. Our self-esteem requires it, our happiness requires it, our life requires it.

This love is the beginning of virtue. It is the launching pad for our highest and noblest aspirations. It is the motive power that drives the six pillars. It is the seventh pillar of self-esteem.

You can no more have too much self-esteem than you can have too much health.

It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their deficiencies than of their available gifts.

No, my little Pearl! Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give thee.

I guess we all can't help peeking at our own imperfections, just like we can't help scratching a scab that keeps itching. When those imperfections are pasted across your face like that, exaggerated and magnified, it's hard to find all those good thoughts you have about yourself. If you believe those distorted reflections too deeply, you'll never get out of the maze.

Being ignored has its advantages...Dignity doesn't grow under a microscope.

I feel no grief for being called something which I am not; in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good back rub

since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light

he had outwitted me: praise was the only thing I couldn't handle

When self-doubt awakens, it feeds on itself. . . .

Sometimes, Chelsea, I wonder, how you get by from day to day. It's a good thing you're so voluptuous.

We can kill our son's confidence by making things too easy for him, by hovering, overprotecting, and over-functioning.

Hey, Weenie Samdini! Henry Farmer called as he waited to get on the school bus Sam would have been taking. Why don't you do a magic trick and make yourself grow so you can k-k-kiss Stutter-girl? It's frightening to think that one day his vote will count as much as yours or mine, Sam mused.