Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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.

Daniel Defoe

Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.

Jan Karon

And it can be a way of healing.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Advent creates people, new people.

Bill Hybels

Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.

Margaret J. Wheatley

I've found that I can only change how I act if I stay aware of my beliefs and assumptions. Thoughts always reveal themselves in behavior.

Ernest Holmes

Healing is the discovery of the Divinity within.

Franz Grillparzer

It's actually the spirit helping the spirit; it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.

Iyanla Vanzant

If you don't have a test, you won't be able to have a testimony.

Gloria Steinem

In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.

Carl Jung

Forgiveness is healing. Especially forgiving yourself

Ayn Rand

It's not about who's going to let me; it's about who's going to stop me.

Robert Henri

Educate yourself. Don't let me educate you

Thomas Pynchon

Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.

Hillary Clinton

Let me repeat what I have repeated for many months now. I never received nor sent any material that was marked classified.

Maria Edgeworth

Let menot, even inmyownmind, committheinjustice of taking a speck for the whole.

Lauren Oliver

Why couldn't you let me have it? Why did you have to take it? Why did you always take everything?

Leonard Cohen

I have often prayed for you like this Let me have her

Bob Marley

Ziggy, when you go up bring me up and when you go down don't let me down. Stephen, Money can't buy you life.

Bryan Clay

I'm competitive. I like to compete, and that's basically what the decathlon lets me do.