33 quotes
“It isn't what they call you, it's what you answer to.”
— W.C. Fields
“Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions. Do your thing, and don't care if they like it.”
— Tina Fey
“One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.”
— Michael J. Fox
“I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.”
— Michel de Montaigne
“Your dignity can be mocked, abused, compromised, toyed with, lowered and even badmouthed, but it can never be taken from you.”
— Shannon L. Alder
“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.”
— Sir Edmund Hillary
“Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your handbrake on.”
— Maxwell Maltz
“I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.”
— Henry James
“Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.”
— Ram Dass
“To thine own self be true.”
— William Shakespeare
“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
“The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”
— Mark Twain
“Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.”
“You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are.”
— Yogi Bhajan
“To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.”
— Denis Waitley
“The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.”
— Robert Hand
“Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-brake on.”
“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
“Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be.”
— Avril Lavigne
“The moment you know yourself you have known the most precious thing in existence.”
— Osho
“The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.”
— Rita Mae Brown
“Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
— Christopher Robin
“Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.”
— Nathaniel Branden
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”
— Rumi
“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”
— William James
“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
“Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.”
— Jack Canfield
“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”
— Marilyn Monroe
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim.”
— Harvey Fierstein
“I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.”
— Madonna
“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
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.”
“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
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