SELF-ESTEEM QUOTES II
quotations about self-esteem
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
ANDRE GIDE
The Journals of Andre Gide
At this point in history, the most radical, pervasive, and earth-shaking transformation would occur simply if everybody truly evolved to a mature, rational, and responsible ego, capable of freely participating in the open exchange of mutual self-esteem. There is the 'edge of history.' There would be a real New Age.
KEN WILBER
Up From Eden
I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.
CHARLOTTE BRONTË
Jane Eyre
Self-respect -- The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
H. L. MENCKEN
A Mencken Chrestomathy
Self-esteem is the real magic wand that can form a child's future. A child's self-esteem affects every area of her existence, from friends she chooses, to how well she does academically in school, to what kind of job she gets, to even the person she chooses to marry.
STEPHANIE MARTSON
The Magic of Encouragement
People who project negativity typically have low self-esteem. They feel badly about themselves, and their negativity is simply a reflection of those feelings.
HENDRIE WEISINGER
The Power of Positive Criticism
No one needs you after all
That little social scene
It's just a hate machine
No one's here to take your call
And now your self esteem
Ain't what it used to be
SHINEDOWN
"Nowhere Kids"
Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health, self-esteem, not its cause.
NATHANIEL BRANDEN
attributed, 1001 Pearls of Wisdom to Build Confidence: Advice and Guidance to Inspire
The tendency to compare oneself with others further lowers self-esteem. Every encounter with another may be turned into a negative self-evaluation.
AARON T. BECK
Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders
Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.
GLORIA STEINEM
attributed, 1001 Pearls of Wisdom to Build Confidence: Advice and Guidance to Inspire
As long as you look for someone else to validate who you are by seeking their approval, you are setting yourself up for disaster. You have to be whole and complete in yourself. No one can give you that.
NIC SHEFF
Tweak: Growing Up on Crystal Meth
All of seventeen
Eyes a purple green
Treated like a Queen, she was
On borrowed self esteem
SOUNDGARDEN
"Flower"
We are the dead, we are in league
We are the doctors of low self-esteem
We do it wrong, we don't believe
We are the congress of the new disease
Pretty thing with no head
That's okay, better off
Dead
BILE
"In League"
So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they're already met?
BILL WATTERSON
The Days are Just Packed
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
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Ofttimes nothing profits more
Than self-esteem, grounded on just and right
Well managed.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost
Self-esteem is an inner feeling: Sometimes it corresponds with outer reality, and sometimes it doesn't.
STANLEY I. GREENSPAN
Playground Politics
If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
The Insulted and the Injured
The result of people having this good self-esteem is that they will be more likely to be loving, cooperative, productive creative, happy and helpful. On the other hand, those with poor self-esteem are more likely to have problems. These problems have to do with drugs, other people and the law. When we are at war within ourselves, it distorts all our relationships.
HAL BRADY
"Blessed are the peacemakers", LaGrange Daily News, August 28, 2017
As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
speech, August 16, 1967