Self-esteem QuotesSelf-esteem quotes are all about building self-confidence. Loving ourselves first is required before we can participate in a healthy relationship with someone else. Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, ‘Make me feel important.’ Never forget this message when working with people. Mary Kay Ash …play produces feelings of pleasure which help you escape from two major creativity killers – stress and self-consciousness. Jordan Ayan Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. Lucille Ball Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. Bruce Barton Love your neighbor as yourself. Leviticus 19:18 When people don’t believe in you, you have to believe in yourself. Pierce Brosnan You can search the entire universe and not find a single being more worthy of love than you. Buddha Creativity flourishes when we have a sense of safety and self-acceptance. Julia Cameron Self-esteem is a huge piece of my work. You have to believe it's possible and believe in yourself. Because after you've decided what you want, you have to believe it's possible, and possible for you, not just for other people. Then you need to seek out models, mentors, and coaches. Jack Canfield There is no freedom like seeing myself as I am and not losing heart. Elizabeth J. Canham We accept the love we think we deserve. Stephen Chbosky Do not underestimate your ability. Geshe Chekawa Wouldn't it be powerful if you fell in love with yourself so deeply that you would do just about anything if you knew it would make you happy? This is precisely how much life loves you and wants you to nurture yourself. The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out. Alan Cohen Self-love is the only weight-loss aid that really works in the long run. Jenny Craig With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world. Dalai Lama With the realization of one’s own potential and self confidence in one’s own ability, one can build a better world. Dalai Lama I am not strange, I am just not normal. Salvador Dali I forgive myself for having believed for so long that…I was never good enough to have, get, be what I wanted. Ceanne De Rohan Contrary to popular thinking, being worthy isn't something you earn, it's something you recognize. Mike Dooley Who you really are is enough. Oriah Mountain Dreamer You are not a beggar at the table of life. You are the honored guest. Emmanuel Stop being so impressed with what other people are doing and get impressed about yourself. You have a story that the world wants to hear. Go tell it! Stone Evans It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes. Sally Field Your self image is your pattern! Every thought has an activity visualized. Every activity belongs to a pattern. You identify with your pattern or thought. Your patterns lead your life. J. G. Gallimore Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love. Mahatma Gandhi The first step toward change is acceptance. Once you accept yourself, you open the door to change. That’s all you have to do. Change is not something you do, it’s something you allow. Will Garcia If I could identify one core problem about the world, it’s that we’ve been taught to distrust ourselves. Shakti Gawain Ignore people who tell you ‘you can’t’ or try to discourage you. Jeffrey Gitomer If someone in your life talked to you the way you talk to yourself, you would have left them long ago. Carla Gordon Suppose you read about a pill that you could take once a day to reduce anxiety and increase your contentment. Would you take it? Suppose further that the pill has a great variety of side effects, all of them good: increased self-esteem, empathy, and trust; it even improves memory. Suppose, finally, that the pill is all natural and costs nothing. Now would you take it? The pill exists. It is meditation. Jonathan Haidt When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it. Mark Victor Hansen It’s surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you’re not comfortable within yourself, you can’t be comfortable with others. Sidney J. Harris I love and approve of myself. I love and approve of my body. I feed it nourishing foods and beverages. I exercise it in ways that are fun. Louise Hay If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works. Louise Hay The bottom line for everyone is I’m not good enough. It’s only a thought, and a thought can be changed. Louise Hay No matter what the issue is, don’t try to justify why you don’t feel good. And don’t try to justify why you should feel differently. Don’t try to blame whatever it is you think the reason is that’s keeping you from feeling good. All of that is wasted effort. Just try to feel better right now. Abraham-Hicks People will love you, people will hate you, and none of it will have anything to do with you. Abraham-Hicks Here is my wish for you and every other child, woman, and man on the face of the earth: Spend one week saying only kind, caring things to yourself. Say thank you at least ten times an hour, direct five toward yourself and five to the world at large. Compliment yourself (and others) each time an effort is made. Notice all the wonderful qualities and characteristics about yourself and those around you. One week. You will never go back. And your whole life will be a glorious meditation. Cheri Huber Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good – on your mirror. Susan Jeffers Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. Samuel Johnson Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got. Janis Joplin Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror. Byron Katie It’s not your job to like me – it’s mine. Byron Katie It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. Sally Kempton If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete. Jack Kornfield The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life – it gave me me. It provided the time and experience and failures and triumphs and friends who helped me step into the shape that had been waiting for me all my life…I not only get along with me most of the time now, I am militantly and maternally on my own side. Anne Lamott I promise myself…to be so strong that nothing can disturb my peace of mind; to talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person I meet; to make all my friends feel that there is something worthwhile in them; to look at the sunny side of everything and make my optimism come true; to think only of the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best; to be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as I am about my own; to forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future; to wear a cheerful expression at all times and give a smile to every living creature I meet; to give so much time to improving myself that I have no time to criticize others; to be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble; to think well of myself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud word, but in great deeds; to live in the faith that the whole world is on my side, so long as I am true to the best that is in me. Christian D. Larson A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us. Orison S. Marden All of us are stars and deserve the right to twinkle. Marilyn Monroe When you undervalue who you are, the world will undervalue what you do and vice versa. Suze Orman People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success. Norman Vincent Peale Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. Norman Vincent Peale The worst enemy of creativity is self-doubt. Sylvia Plath Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness. Ayn Rand Ultimately, love is self-approval. Sondra Ray An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature. Renoir You must begin to trust yourself. If you do not then you will forever be looking to others to prove your own merit to you, and you will never be satisfied. You will always be asking others what to do, and at the same time, resenting those from whom you seek such aid. Jane Roberts You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are…your simple presence can make others happy. Jane Roberts No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt Anger is an integrity-producing response to the invasion of your personal boundaries. Gabrielle Roth We have the need to be accepted and to be loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves. The more self-love we have, the less we will experience self-abuse. Self-abuse comes from self-rejection, and self-rejection comes from having an image of what it means to be perfect and never measuring up to that ideal. Our image of perfection is the reason we reject ourselves the way we are, and why we don’t accept others the way they are. Miguel Ángel Ruiz Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. Rumi Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don’t realize what messages they are sending. Virginia Satir What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you. Seneca Self-loving is not so vile a sin, my liege, as self-neglecting. William Shakespeare If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away. John Steinbeck What a man thinks of himself, it is that which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. Henry David Thoreau One's self-image and image of the future have a great deal to do with what that person is motivated to do and able to do, as well as the extent to which he is able to change his behavior. E. Paul Torrance The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself. Mark Twain Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can be great. Mark Twain Don’t rush into any kind of relationship. Work on yourself. Feel yourself, experience yourself and love yourself. Do this first and you will soon attract that special loving other. Russ Von Hoelscher What people think of me is none of my business. Terry Cole Whittaker To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. Oscar Wilde Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile. Oscar Wilde Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we’re liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. Marianne Williamson Don’t settle for a relationship that won’t let you be yourself. Oprah Winfrey Love yourself and then learn to extend that love to others in every encounter. Oprah Winfrey What I know for sure is that your life is a multipart series of all your experiences- and each experience is created by your thoughts, intentions, and actions to teach you what you need to know. Your life is a journey of learning to love yourself first and then extending that love to others in every encounter. Oprah Winfrey You can’t base your life on other people’s expectations. Stevie Wonder Return from Self-esteem Quotes and Self-confidence Quotations to Quotes Listed by Subject
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