Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

bell hooks

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

David Bowie

I had enormous self-image problems and very low self-esteem, which I hid behind obsessive writing and performing. It's exactly what I do now, except I enjoy it now. I'm not driven like I was in my twenties. I was driven to get through life very quickly.

Cynthia Heimel

Throughout their lives, women try to pummel their bodies into some phantom ideal shape that exists only with a lot of airbrushing. ... I don't blame men for this. Men seem to go for us no matter what size and shape we are. I blame capitalism. No, really. The consumer must constantly be in a state of anxious low self-esteem so that she will constantly buy lipsticks and girdles to make her feel cuter.

Adele

I don’t have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like

Clayton Christensen

When I have my interview with my God, our conversation will focus on the individuals whose self-esteem I was able to strengthen, whose faith I was able to reinforce, and whose discomfort I was able to assuage—a doer of good, regardless of what assignment I had. These are the metrics of that matter in measuring my life. This realization, which occurred nearly fifteen years ago, guided me every day to seek opportunities to help people in ways tailored to their individual circumstances. My happiness and my sense of worth has been immeasurably improved as a result.

Dawn French

I've never disliked myself, and my weight has had nothing to do with my self-esteem.

Curtis Hanson

Self-awareness and self-esteem. Those aren't female issues, those are human issues.

Sri Chinmoy

If you want to understand yourself, Then do not examine yourself. Just love yourself more sincerely, More soulfully And more self-givingly.

Sophia Bush

The hardest situation to stay happy in, I think, is when you're trying to find love, and yourself at the same time. It just doesn't seem to fit well.

Richard Simmons

I've always practiced this: Love yourself. Move your body. Watch your portions.

Michelle Mone

You have to love yourself, not in an egotistical way, but if you love yourself, everyone else will love you.

Jennifer Lopez

You've got to love yourself first. You've got to be okay on your own before you can be okay with somebody else.

Jessica Lange

One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.

Gisele Bundchen

If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can't give anything else but that.

Zayn Malik

and remember, nobody's feelings are more important than your own, so take time to love yourself.

John Lennon

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love.

David Nicholls

If you're my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can't, and if I can't talk to you, well, what is the point of you? Of us?

Marina Abramovic

Through performance, I found the possibility of establishing a dialogue with the audience through an exchange of energy, which tended to transform the energy itself. I could not produce a single work without the presence of the audience, because the audience gave me the energy to be able, through a specific action, to assimilate it and return it, to create a genuine field of energy.

Nicole Beharie

I kind of feel like I have grown as just like a human being as a human being by being able to adapt and adjust and know that like you can't ever rest on your laurels, you have to sort of wake up; you actually have to be present.

Bill Crawford

To influence others to change, you must be able to frame that change in terms of the future, and in a way that has value to all concerned.

Bryan Cranston

The only thing that we as actors really can control is to be able to say 'yes' or 'no' to the material.

Immanuel Kant

One is not rich by what one owns, but more by what one is able to do without with dignity.

Hugh Laurie

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.

Grace Napolitano

Even without reforms, the Social Security fund will be able to meet 100 percent of its obligations until 2042.

Grace Paley

You come to doing what you do by not being able to do something.