Famous Quotes & Sayings

Erykah Badu

I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.

Florence King

Men are not very good at loving, but they are experts at admiring and respecting; the woman who goes after their admiration and respect will often come out better than she who goes out after their love.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Above all, do not lie to yourself.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Above all, don't lie to yourself.

Chris Ware

I don't think there's any independent cartoonist whose stuff I don't like or respect in at least some way or another. We're all marginal laborers - we're practically medical oddities - so I don't see why we can't all be nice to each other.

Chris Lowe

House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it's not good at all.

Marvin J. Ashton

Often our self-esteem is bruised by criticism.

Marvin J. Ashton

We should teach, particularly ourselves, that nobody is a nobody. We are someone, and with God's help we can accomplish all things.

Neal A. Maxwell

If another person only had in his storehouse of deserved self-esteem what you had put there, what would he have to draw upon and to sustain him?

Neal A. Maxwell

Satan delights to have us put ourselves down. Self-contempt is of Satan. There is no such thing in heaven.

Nathaniel Branden

The desire for self-esteem without integrity is like the desire for wealth without effort-a longing for the unearned.

Nathaniel Branden

Where we see self esteem, we see self acceptance. High self esteem individual tend to avoid falling into an adversarial relationship with themselves.

Nathaniel Branden

If you feel inadequate to face challenges, unworthy of love or respect, untitled to happiness, and fear assertive thought, wants, or needs- if you lack basic self trust, self-respect, and self-confidence- your self-esteem deficiency will limit you, no matter what other assets you possess.

Nathaniel Branden

To attain "success" without attaining positive self-esteem is to be condemned to feeling like an imposter anxiously awaiting exposure.

Nathaniel Branden

Your choices have psychological consequences. The way you choose to deal with reality, truth, facts - your choice to honor or dishonor your own perceptions - registers in your mind, for good or for bad, and either confirms and strengthens your self-esteem or undermines and weakens it.

Art Buchwald

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.

Eckhart Tolle

If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace.

Dale Carnegie

if you want to keep happiness , you have to share it !

Dale Carnegie

Tomorrow you may want to persuade somebody to do something. Before you speak, pause and as yourself, "How can I make this person want to do it?

Creed Bratton

Apparently, I don't want to take myself too seriously.

Craig Newmark

I want you to know, at this very moment, I am simulating normal human behavior.

Colin Powell

I want to see policies that encourage every American to vote, not make it more difficult to vote,

Daniel Radcliffe

Because I'm short and slim, I can identify with somebody who's an unlikely fit for something and desperately wants to be part of it.

Daniel Radcliffe

I don't want anyone to ever say that I don't belong where I am.