Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann G. Seume

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Gwendoline Christie

People come up to me and say, 'You look so much better in real life.'

Cate Blanchett

People had always vaguely mentioned that when you have children, how part of your life would stop. But they don't say that some other extraordinary part of your life opens up.

John Ortberg

Opposition is an inevitable reality of pastoral life.

Paul Ballard

On this day we want to say thank you for an American hero, for one who would sacrifice his life so we could be free.

Stella Young

On the whole, my life is and has been wonderful.

Jack Brennan

No question it has been a challenging week. But it's a reminder to us all that life in the NFL doesn't get quieter when you have some success.

Joyce Banda

After President Mutharika was declared a winner, there was life after State House. For those Malawians that know me, I am an international public speaker. So I went back to my speaking engagements.

Stuart Townsend

Acting is great. You spend your whole life trying to get it right.

Sammy Morris

Personally, I don't think the team was teetering on whether (Williams) apologized or not. Rick just wanted to say something, and the team was able to respect that.

Chris Hanson

You would think that would be enough. There is nothing wrong with being an underdog. We just go out and make teams respect us.

Jane Haddam

In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.

Alan Dershowitz

If we move away from the American tradition of lawyers defending those with whom they vehemently disagree -- as we temporarily did during the McCarthy period -- we weaken our commitment to the rule of law... So beware of an approach which limits advocacy to that which is approved by the standards of political correctness.

Baltasar Gracian

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

Blaise Pascal

We have so exalted a notion of the human soul that we cannot bear to be despised, or even not to be esteemed by it. Man, in fact, places all his happiness in this esteem.

Bruce Lee

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Bruno Bettelheim

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.

Britney Spears

I remember I read this harsh review about my show, and one of my friends told me that this was the exact same stuff people said about Madonna. And it's like, she didn't care. Madonna just came out and was herself. I respect that a lot.

Azar Nafisi

With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem.

Ayn Rand

Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think... The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind.

Ayn Rand

No value is higher than self-esteem, but you've invested it in counterfeit securities-and now your morality has caught you in a trap where you are forced to protect your self-esteem by fighting for the creed of self-destruction. The grim joke is on you: that need of self-esteem, which you're unable to explain or to define, belongs to my morality, not yours; it's the objective token of my code, it is my proof within your own soul.

Ayn Rand

In order to deal with reality successfully - to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires - man needs self-esteem; he needs to be confident of his efficacy and worth.

Brian Tracy

Transgression of any kind is always accompanied by a loss of self-esteem.

Brian Andreas

There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by myself.

bell hooks

I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.

Eckhart Tolle

In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.

Edsger Dijkstra

Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.