Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alanis Morissette

I didn't have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager, as I think most teen-agers don't.

Alan Watts

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Human dignity can be achieved only in the field of ethics, and ethical achievement is measured by the degree in which our actions are governed by compassion and love, not by greed and aggressiveness.

Denis Waitley

Self-esteem is felt even though you may not have done anything yet, but just feel the capability for it.

Denis Waitley

Positive self-esteem is the quality of simply saying thank you and accepting any value that is attributed to you by others.

Denis Waitley

The stretch of the limousine usually is inversely proportional to the self esteem of the person riding in it.

Denis Waitley

Self-esteem is that deep-down inside the skin feeling you have of your own self-worth.

Denis Waitley

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

John Petit-Senn

Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.

Alan Watts

Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever.

Alan Watts

But nirvana is a radical transformation of how it feels to be alive: it feels as if everything were myself, or as if everything---including "my" thoughts and actions---were happening of itself. There are still efforts, choices, and decisions, but not the sense that "I make them"; they arise of themselves in relation to circumstances. This is therefore to feel life, not as an encounter between subject and object, but as a polarized field where the contest of opposites has become the play of opposites.

Alan Watts

A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites.

Akshay Kumar

I enjoy the risk of bungee-jumping. I used to pay money to do it. Now, it's the opposite. I get paid to do action.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

To escape the error of salvation by works we have fallen into the opposite error of salvation without obedience.

Chita Rivera

You can feel whether an audience is tightened up and pulled back. Of course the opposite is an audience like we've been having in LA, which is fabulous.

China Mieville

A city like London was always going to be a paradox, the best of it so very riddled with the opposite, so Swiss-cheesed with moral holes.

Eddie Huang

People ask me what my greatest strengths are and I say perspective. The best way to get that is to meet people that are polar opposites; you learn the most from them. There are pieces of you that are inherently yours, but everything else is a collection of the things you’ve seen and the people you’ve met.

Deepika Padukone

I've grown up watching Shah Rukh Khan and never really imagined that one day I will get to play the lead opposite him.

Cheryl Mendelson

I myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked.

Benjamin Franklin

He who will not be counseled cannot be helped.

David Koechner

You can only experience love if you have self love.

Janet Jackson

The greatest achievement to any human being is to love God, yourself, and others.

Deepak Chopra

To bring yourself love and happiness, do what you can to bring them to others.

Alphonsus Liguori

God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves.

Albert Camus

True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person.

Shakti Gawain

As I learn to love myself, I recieve the love I desire from others.

Susan Jeffers

The source of our love comes from within. No one out there is that source. It makes sense to go to the source.