Self Esteem Quotes - Page 5

You think it's so easy to change yourself. You think it's so easy, but it's not True, things don't stay the same forever: couches are replaced, boys leave, you discover a song, your body becomes forever scarred. And with each of these moments you change again, your true self spinning, shifting positions - but always at last it returns to you, like a dancer on the floor. Because throughout it all you are still always, *you*: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable. And isn't that - just you - enough?

Leila Sales

Secularity is a way of being dependent on the responses of our milieu. The secular or false self is the self which is fabricated, as Thomas Merton says, by social compulsions. 'Compulsive' is indeed the best adjective for the false self. It points to the need for ongoing and increasing affirmation. Who am I? I am the one who is liked, praised, admired, disliked, hated or despised. Whether I am a pianist, a businessman or a minister, what matters is how I am perceived by my world. If being busy is a good thing, then I must be busy. If having money is a sign of real freedom, then I must claim my money. If knowing many people proves my importance, I will have to make the necessary contacts. The compulsion manifests itself in the lurking fear of failure and the steady urge to prevent this by gathering more of the same - more work, more money, more friends.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

Sexual abuse injects poisonous lies into its victims’ hearts and minds. “You’re not worthy” is one of them.

Carolyn Byers Ruch

If you spend your energy condemning and judging the people who mistreat you it puts you in a condemning and judging mindset, which subconsciously makes you feel condemned and judged too. The more judgmental you are, the worse your self-esteem will be.

Kimberly Giles

No one can repair your self-esteem for you. Your spouse cannot fix it. Your parents cannot fix it. Your boss cannot fix it. No amount of success or beauty enhancements can fix it. You have to fix it by changing the way you see yourself. You have to choose to see yourself accurately, to see life as a classroom, and commit to the policy that you have the same value no matter how you perform. It is time to claim the power to do this and not let anyone take your self-esteem from you again.

Kimberly Giles

Most people think that once they lose the weight or make more money they will finally feel good about them themselves, but they are usually disappointed when they get there to find they don’t feel better. This happens because real self-worth can’t be earned. Real self-worth comes from understanding the truth about who you are and understanding that your value is infinite and absolute no matter what. This is the only way to peace.

Kimberly Giles

On any day - in any given event - you have to believe in yourself and back yourself 100%

Rasheed Ogunlaru

Self-love is often equated with self-esteem but when it makes you blind to your own faults and gives you an inflated ego, it is time to introspect.

Balroop Singh

Self-esteem wasn't the issue for my parents or their parents. Survival was their primary goal.

Julia A. Boyd

When we place ourselves in a position of judgment, then we turn ourselves into oppressors. Healthy self-esteem cannot exist side-by-side with oppression of any kind.

Julia A. Boyd

Self confidence. Let's fight the demon that make us look smaller than we truly are. Your dream is worth it.

Daniel Vlcek

We tend to think that it’s up to others to respect our needs and fill them for us. But that doesn’t ever work, and for the following reason:If you have a hard time knowing what it is you really need, then how on earth can you logically expect someone else to know?

Amanda Butterworth

Why all this deference to Alfred, and Scanderbeg, and Gustavus? Suppose they were virtuous; did they wear out virtue?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self confidence. Let's fight the demons that makes us look smaller than we truly are. Your dream is worth it.

Daniel Vlcek

Self-confidence. Let's fight the demon that makes you look smaller than you truly are.

Daniel Vlcek

I will bless thee -His Beatitude is Your Beautification

Ikechukwu Joseph

Oh what a shame, if she thought any beauty that she has came from him. She didn't understand the beauty of her own skin.

Jasmine Sandozz

When a person thinks you are too good for them, they create a wall without even taking a chance. The best life that God has in store for a person is often thrown away because of what he or she thinks they deserve. True love is not the life you had, but the life you never realized you could have.

Shannon L. Alder

I wondered what it was like to feel whole, to not feel torn up or stunned out or wigged out or any of those things. I wondered what it was like to walk around the world looking up at the sky instead of searching the ground, eye to eye with things that crawled.

Benjamin Alire Sáenz

It was almost painful to be different.

Shannon A. Thompson

Drug cartels have taken the driver’s seat, training our youngmen and women on how best to self destruct, while the largercommunity watches on helplessly as these bands of renegades leadour people towards the path of self annihilation

Oche Otorkpa

Doubt has become the veritable wellspring of my creative process and my philosophic explorations. It has equipped me with the temerity and wherewithal to question certain truths deemed ‘fundamental’ by my betters. Defiance has made me stubborn—possibly even arrogant—enough to shrug off rejection and all fears thereof, no matter how lacerating to the self-esteem these could be. It has given me the will to seek only to satisfy myself.

Ashim Shanker

A beautiful face will age and a perfect body will change, but an awesome person will always be an awesome person.

Tanya Masse

No matter how small you are or feel or think you are–live big. Yours is the only life of you, in this form, the world will ever have!

Na'ama Yehuda

If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That's why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little chat.

Lewis Black

I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect. Decedents of the beautiful women that fought so hard for centuries to be equal and not objects of men's will, only their achievement to die in vain. As today's woman single desire is to be any men's object by any means on her part. Talk about irony...

Irena Deneva

If you are in a bad relationship with anyone else, it is because you are in a bad relationship with yourself.

Abiola Abrams

There's great power in not fearing solitude. You don't allow yourself to be treated like crap because you're afraid of the alternative.

S. Usher Evans

I am still bullied occasionally. However, none of my current bullies really exist. They’re all in my head. Be your own best friend instead of your worst enemy.

Abiola Abrams

Dont try to be useful. Try to be yourself; that is enough, and that makes all the difference.

Paulo Coelho

This is what I find myself writing to myself on the page:I'm here. I love you. I don't care if you need to stay up crying all night long. I will stay with you. If you need the medication again, go ahead and take it - I will love you through that, as well. If you don't need the medication, I will love you, too. There's nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Just be yourself -- it's the only way it can work.

Johnny Carson

How do you know if someone loves herself? No hairstyle, religion, or ethnicity has ownership of self-love or a greater propensity toward self-hatred. The best way to tell if a woman loves herself is by how she treats herself and others. She makes self-loving choices.

Abiola Abrams

People build defenses around a weakness, not around strength. Where self-esteem is strong, a defense is unnecessary.

David W. Earle

The perfect body protects its owner from disease, gives birth to amazing new people and stops your bones from falling out. The end.

Heather Hill

A woman in love with herself is magnetic.

Abiola Abrams

I’m creating a self help show called Self Talk. I’ll insult myself for an hour then open phone lines to a fitness coach & my mother-in-law.

Ryan Lilly

Self leadership requires us to lead and motivate ourselves. But it looks a heck of a lot like schizophrenia during a ropes course.

Ryan Lilly

When this low self-worth is hidden, one can understand why the person becomes hypersensitive to the opinions of others and has a great deal of difficulty accepting criticism no matter how warranted or gently said.

David W. Earle

Bad habits are like having a sumo wrestler in the back of your canoe rowing the opposite direction.

J. Loren Norris

It is better to stay single and wait for the one that makes sense then to marry someone that makes absolutely no sense. The moment you settle is when the one person that makes all the sense in the world shows up and Satan sits back and enjoys your spiritual meltdown.

Shannon L. Alder

Some guys like to undermine a girl's self-esteem with little verbal jabs. Eventually it all adds up. One bee sting doesn't hurt a horse, but enough bee stings can kill a horse.

Oliver Gaspirtz

God never uses one approach to the get his job done in the world. Each soul has its own way of being reached. He has put inside of each of us an unique song, that only another heart can hear clearly. To wish you were someone else robs another human being of the special blessings, talents and gifts God meant for you to share.

Shannon L. Alder

I want to look into a mirror that will love my own reflection harder than I hate myself.

Meggie Royer

There’s a widespread belief that if you have solid self-esteem you don’t need outside affirmation and praise. This is patently untrue, by the way.

Harriet Lerner

Things are changing, but this time I'm not afraid. This time I know who I am. This time I've made the right choice and fighting for the right team. I feel safe. Confident

Tahereh Mafi

If you put a small value on yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.

Unknown Author 909

Every single man who is too stupid enough to realize how beautiful is God's creation through WOMEN and continuously lay his hand on them, he is not man enough to be classified with the rest of us.

Unarine Ramaru

Something inside her opened strong and raw while she played with those two words. I matter.

A. Lynn

A beautiful person is not defined by a hair style, a pair of shoes, it’s not the logos on the T-shirt, the sport’s team on a hat, the designer’s name on a hand bag, or even how you smell.Instead, beauty lies in who you are when no one is watching, the person you are when there’s nothing to hide behind. No amount of concealer can cover up a cantankerous heart, but all the make-up in the world can’t add a single lumen to the brightness of a beautiful soul.

Justin Young

Yes, Eleanor loathed herself and yet required praise, which she then never believed.

Hanif Kureishi

I am convinced that the jealous, the angry, the bitter and the egotistical are the first to race to the top of mountains. A confident person enjoys the journey, the people they meet along the way and sees life not as a competition.

Shannon L. Alder

The trick for introverts is to honor their styles instead of allowing themselves to be swept up by prevailing norms.

Susan Cain

If you want to improve your self-worth, stop giving other people the calculator.

Tim Fargo

To be unique calls for being unique in such a way that your uniqueness doesn't make others appear inferior, and a uniqueness that doesn't crave for anything apart from your own thing.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Stop waiting for creative inspiration. Start creating and inspire yourself along the way.

Ryan Lilly

The price you will offer yourself to the world, is how much they will buy you.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Just because your feet are on the ground, doesn't mean you weren't born to fly.

Justin Young

Each of us have been born with the potential for greatness. We are equals. That doesn't mean we are born into equal circumstances, or have equal skills. What we do have in common, though, is the ability to apply ourselves to achieving that which we desire.

Justin Young

I may not be the prettiest butterfly in the garden to seek but, I am still there with my wings.

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