Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sagan

Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us - then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls.

Jean de la Bruyere

We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.

Jay Leno

I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good. Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.

Jane Roberts

Yours is the energy that makes your world. There are no limitations to the self except those you believe in.

Ernest Cline

I was just starting out, trying to become a screenwriter, and I became the Austin slam champion three times. For a nerdy, kind of a socially awkward guy, that did wonders for my self esteem.

Cassandra Clare

You know men. We have delicate egos.

Christina Aguilera

Don't let anything morph you or push you around or have you be something you're not.

Gertrude Stein

I wish that I was where I am.

Gertrude Stein

It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.

Herbie Hancock

You would not exist if you did not have something to bring to the table of life.

Henry David Thoreau

It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.

Jillian Michaels

Transformation is not five minutes from now; it's a present activity. In this moment you can make a different choice, and it's these small choices and successes that build up over time to help cultivate a healthy self-image and self esteem.

Harriet Lerner

Feeling essentially superior to other people is as sure a sign of poor self-esteem as feeling essentially inferior.

Halle Berry

I have to live for me. I have to do what I need to do for me, and I have stopped concerning myself with what people say.

Halle Berry

A person's self-esteem has nothing to do with how she looks.

Guy Finley

What good is any feeling we may have about ourselves, if it only lasts as long as others agree to it?

Jennifer Aniston

You're damned if you're too thin and you're damned if you're too heavy. According to the press I've been both. Its impossible to satisfy everyone and I suggest we stop trying.

Gloria Gaynor

People always want to ask me about my drug problem - I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem problem!

Gloria Gaynor

Low self-esteem comes from who you assess yourself to be. It's about who you are, and I didn't think I was anything or anybody.

Gertrude Stein

Let me listen to me and not to them.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

We all place ourselves at various levels, and we are constantly falling from these heights. It is the falls we are ashamed of. Self-esteem is the cause of our shame, of our fall. It is this self-esteem that must be understood, and not the fall.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

And it is impossible to treat human beings as human beings if you label them, if you term them, if you give them a name as Hindus, Russians, or what you will. It is so much easier to label people, for then you can pass by and kick them, drop a bomb on India or Japan.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Imagination builds the image of the self, and thought then functions within its shadows. From this self-concept grows the conflict between what is and what should be, the conflict in duality.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

But inwardly we are as corrupt as the person who sits in an office and plans war-because, we want to be somebody in the family, in a group, in society, in the nation.

Gillian Anderson

Self-esteem should have nothing to do with what you look like – if you exude genuine confidence, people will be swept into it. You have to be able to hold yourself.

Harry Stack Sullivan

If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.

Fred Rogers

There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.

Harold B. Lee

Every man stamps his value on himself. The price we challenge for ourselves is given us by others. -Man is made great or little by his own will.

Iyanla Vanzant

We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem.

Iyanla Vanzant

Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem. We cannot draw to ourselves more than we think we are worth.