47 quotes
“You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are.”
— Yogi Bhajan
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”
— Mark Twain
“Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.”
— Oprah Winfrey
“I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.”
— Henry James
“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”
— Helen Keller
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.”
— Maxwell Maltz
“The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.”
— Robert Hand
“To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.”
— Denis Waitley
“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”
— Marilyn Monroe
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
— William James
“One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.”
— Michael J. Fox
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
— George Eliot
“You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.”
— Brian Tracy
“You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”
— Louise L. Hay
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”
— Rumi
“Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.”
— M. Scott Peck
“You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.”
“Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be.”
— Avril Lavigne
“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”
“Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.”
— Louise Hart
“I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.”
— Madonna
“It isn't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”
— W.C. Fields
“Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.”
— Nathaniel Branden
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.”
— Harvey Fierstein
“I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.”
— Michel de Montaigne
“He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.”
— Plato
“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.”
— Sir Edmund Hillary
“The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.”
— Rita Mae Brown
“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.”
— Frederick Douglass
“Your dignity can be mocked, abused, compromised, toyed with, lowered and even badmouthed, but it can never be taken from you.”
— Shannon L. Alder
“Our self-respect tracks our choices. Every time we act in harmony with our authentic self and our heart, we earn our respect.”
— Dan Coppersmith
“The moment you know yourself you have known the most precious thing in existence.”
— Osho
“To find yourself, think for yourself.”
— Socrates
“To thine own self be true.”
— William Shakespeare
“Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-brake on.”
“Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions. Do your thing, and don't care if they like it.”
— Tina Fey
“Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
— Christopher Robin
“If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.”
— Barbara De Angelis
“Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.”
— Ram Dass
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim.”
“Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.”
— Brené Brown
“The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.”
— Maya Angelou
“Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.”
— Jack Canfield
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself.”
