Self Esteem Quotes - Page 8

Happiness isn’t something you pick up at the grocery store, nor is it something that comes to you at a certain age. It’s a trait that lives within all of us, and it flourishes when you begin appreciating the things in life we take for granted.

T.A. Uner

I believed almost every negative thing that I ever heard someone say about me.

Mark L. Baynard

Positive self-esteem must be preceded by self-respect. To get self-respect you have to do something good.

Louis Zamperini

I had battled my own demons that day, facing down the thing that imprisoned me since the accident-a scar and the diffidence it created inside of me. But it was just a physical blemish, not something that made me who I am. It took a mentally disturbed murderer who gave me a sneak peak at death to show me that.

Never condemn yourself. Always affirm positive words into your life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Other people's opinion have no impact on your self esteem unless you allow it.

Walk, act and speak in confident.

Lailah Gifty Akita

What an excellent great soul you are?

Lailah Gifty Akita

I guess sometimes the perfection we perceive in others is made up of a whole bunch of tiny imperfections, because some days the damn dress just won't zip.

The mere fact that I exist, means that I deserve to be here and to express myself any damn way I please.

Euphoria Godsent

I will be all that I am capable of being.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Where there is life, there is a hope.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I am wonderful creation of God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I've wasted a lot of time in my life. I've thought too much about what people will say or what they're gonna think. And sometimes it's over silly things like going to the grocery store or going to the post office. But there have been times when I really stopped myself from doing something special. All because I was scared someone might look at me and decide I wasn't good enough. But you don't have to bother with that nonsense. I wasted all that time so you don't have to.

If you are going to dream then dream big, why spend time dreaming small?

if you keep a distance to get a respect, keep a distance to keep the respect

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I put on a show of confidence as often as I could, but inside, I was a befuddled mess. I secretly wished my mother would live forever. - Merrick Delmar

What a joy to meet and be around with people who're self-aware with healthy self-esteem. They embrace you and make your stay with them enjoyable.

Assegid Habtewold

But I was coming to learn that much of your perception of a relationship is shaped by everything else that happens to be going on in your life at the time. When I first met Ed Farley, I had been starved for love. He was the first man I'd ever known to show me kindness. Hr had taken my loneliness away. And for that I knew I would always be grateful. But being grateful was not enough of a reason to stay with someone.

Inspiration builds self-esteem, it builds communities, and it builds lives. It creates paths where previous paths didn’t exist.

Respect, reverence, self-esteemAre my basic requisites I refuse to be a competitorWho struggles for personal rights

When admiring other people's gardens, don't forget to tend to your own flowers.

So I get to be the bitch now? Fine. Then you, my friend, are the scary girl. 'He doesn't hit me. He doesn't abuse me. He doesn't cheat on me.' Can you hear yourself? If those are the standards you have--hey, he hasn't punched me, so everything must be okay!--that scares me. That makes me think that at some point you've used these justifications. 'Oh, it's really bad right now, and he's being awful...but at least he's not hitting me. Have a little more respect for yourself than that, okay?

May be I am villain in your story, but I am hero in mine.

We can choose partner, make friends, hire people who make us feel faultless. But think about it – do you never want to grow? Next time you’re tempted to surround yourself with worshippers, go to church.

Limiting beliefs are a virus of the mind. They decline your success and happiness.

Sacred-soul, sacred life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

If you’re looking for that one person who can change your life, take a look in the mirror.

R. Price

I no longer needed to peel myself of my skin, or to hide. To Dash the colorless ephemeral things that existed just beneath my surface were as vivid as the beauty marks he traced on my cheek.

Choose faith to live life rather than fear.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Hold yourself in great esteem.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Every soul has the potential of a great spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I knew with certainty now—I could say no, and he would stop. Above all, I felt the fierce beauty of the choice. I knew now what it was that had held me from falling into my desire to be with him fully: I first needed to make sure he was a man who would respect my 'No.

It is impossible to satisfy self. Self always wants more and more. It is an ugly monster that will devour you if you don't devour it. Stop feeding it an watch the pressure be released. Self deprivation is much more fulfilling than self gratification. Who Knew?

Randa Manning-Johnson

The pendulum has overcorrected from the cruel era of rapping a disobedient child’s knuckles with a ruler togiving every child a trophy for showing up. Every child should have the experience of being loved unconditionally, supported, and encouraged,but this requires more than a standing ovation every time he or she enters the room.

Ramani Durvasula

You are a child of God. You are blessed.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Confident is a spirit of faith

Lailah Gifty Akita

Be confident, be bold!

Lailah Gifty Akita

You are the most priced before God.Acknowledge this

Ikechukwu Joseph

When you watch Olympic athletes in competition, does your self-esteem plummet? Of course not. On the contrary, you feel wonder and admiration; you're inspired that such exceptional individuals exist. So why can't we feels the same way about beauty?

Sometimes the ugliest parts of ourselves are what others love the most.

If you can be content with who you are, how you look and then try every day to make a difference to someone else, then it leads to a wonderful life. It’s a shame more humans can’t grasp that fact.” - M.K. Clinton

The strangest thing was, as beautiful as I found her to be, she admitted that she wasn’t always comfortable in her own skin. I found that hard to believe until she explained herself. All of the sudden I was not so much in awe of her but found myself empathizing with her.

Truth be told, I’m still in awe of her, but I found it easier to relate to her. She really made me see that we are all the same. We all suffer the same feelings of inadequacy because we are not like others, but that’s what makes us so special too.

Be assertive, in speech and in conduct.

Lailah Gifty Akita

He likes to think of himself as someone who can give quick clever answers to awkward questions. It is an important part of his self-esteem.

Glenn Haybittle

Of all the horrid ramifications of child abuse, the self-beliefs formed by the child reap the greatest destruction. Abuse is the most penetrating and permanent communication possible, and it always conveys to the child one or more of several messages: ‘I caused it to happen. It’s my fault because I am bad. I don’t deserve any better.

Heyward Bruce Ewart III

If the moon faerie became like the sun faerie, there would be eternal day and if the sun faerie became like the moon faerie, it would be pitch dark. Therefore you balance each other out. Do you see?

Anja Owona Okoa

When you look at your passions, your interests, and your own self, and see nothing of worth, then know that life will feed this belief back to you. If you can find a way to value yourself without exerting your will or your effort anymore, you will find that you need to do less, to shine more.

My ancestors arrived on the Wayflower

Robert Wesley Miller

God created you in His own image.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Faith gives self-confidence, self-courage and strength.

Lailah Gifty Akita

A person that doesn't know their worth will never know yours. Therefore, the longer you hang onto hope that they will finally see your worth is the moment you start to depreciate in value.

Shannon L. Alder

There are those who will resent you for not being confined by their limitations.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

Is it not enough to dip your tongue into my soul and write poetry?

Evelyn Lielou Colon

Maybe just being me was enough to be loved. I wasn't giving myself any credit.Now I knew that I h

Any time you think limitation it is not spiritual or god based,

Nobody can help you as much as you can help yourself.

Lailah Gifty Akita

My self-esteem is Teflon coated, baby.

Josephine Myles

It sounded, I told him, as if he had never learned to balance projecting goals into the future with appreciating and living in the present....To the extent that our goal is to "prove" ourselves or ward off the fear of failure, this balance is difficult to achieve. We are too driven. Not joy but anxiety is our motor.But if our aim is self-expression rather than self-justification, the balance tends to come more naturally. We will still need to think about its daily implementation, but the anxiety of wounded self-esteem will not make the task nearly impossible.

Nathaniel Branden

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