Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Galsworthy

I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.

John Ortberg

Low self-esteem causes me to believe that I have so little worth that my response does not matter. With repentance, however, I understand that being worth so much to God is why my response is so important. Repentance is remedial work to mend our minds and hearts, which get bent by sin.

John Mulaney

Maybe I just have high self-esteem, but I have a lot that I really enjoy.

John Calvin

Hypocrisy can plunge the mind of a man into a dark abyss, when he believes his own self-flattery instead of God's verdict.

Garry Trudeau

Isn't it possible that self-esteem isn't causal at all, but simply the happy side effect of a sturdy character, itself the product of unambiguous moral education?

Geena Davis

When I was a model, actually, for a little while, my friend that I worked with a lot, she had horrible self-esteem too. We decided that the exact moment when we actually thought we were attractive, we wouldn't be any more. We would just, like, miss it.

Geena Davis

I had very, very bad self-esteem - that I was a fake, everybody was going to find out, that I didn't deserve to have success, just about my looks and really, really bad self esteem.

Lucian Freud

The painting is always done very much with [the model's] co-operation. The problem with painting a nude, of course, is that it deepens the transaction. You can scrap a painting of someone's face and it imperils the sitter's self-esteem less than scrapping a painting of the whole naked body.

Maimonides

The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.

Mahatma Gandhi

The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit.

Mahatma Gandhi

The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

Jo Coudert

You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. Of all the people you will know in the lifetime, you are the only one you will never leave or lose.

Jo Coudert

It is rewarding to find someone you like, but it is essential to like yourself. It is quickening to recognize that someone is a good and decent human being, but it is indispensable to view yourself as acceptable. It is a delight to discover people who are worthy of respect and admiration and love, but it is vital to believe yourself deserving of these things.

Jo Brand

I think self-esteem is fluid. It's not a fixed state, and so some days are better than others.

James Taylor

I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.

James Patterson

Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It's a grain. It's like grits, but with high self-esteem.

Henry Van Dyke

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.

Heinrich Heine

While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.

Henry Winkler

A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.

Helena Bonham Carter

Very early on, you figure out that you put your self-esteem in the hands of strangers. There's a different commodity. There's the Helena Bonham Carter that everyone thinks they know, who really has nothing to do with me. But you just have to let that go.

Helena Bonham Carter

Why do you put your self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?

Harlan Ellison

When you're all alone out there, on the end of the typewriter, with each new story a new appraisal by the world of whether you can still get it up or not, arrogance and self-esteem and deep breathing are all you have. It often looks like egomania. I assure you it's the bold coverup of the absolutely terrified.

John Madden

Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.

John Locke

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

Jimmy Buffett

Back to my childhood where those monsters reside. They snack on innocence and dine on self esteem.

Joanna Baillie

She who only finds her self-esteem In others' admiration, begs an alms; Depends on others for her daily food, And is the very servant of her slaves; Tho' oftentimes, in a fantastic hour, O'er men she may a childish pow'r exert, Which not ennobles but degrades her state.

Jim Rohn

The least lack of discipline starts to erode our self-esteem.

Jim Rohn

The greatest step toward success is self confidence. The greatest builder of self confidence is self esteem, and self esteem comes from doing the daily things you know you should do. Your self esteem will start to soar when you make some critical decisions - decisions to walk a new road, to start a new direction, to start a new discipline.

Jim Rohn

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.

Jim Rohn

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

David Levithan

Self-esteem can be so exhausting. I want to cut my hair, change my clothes, erase the pimple from the near-tip of my nose, and strengthen my upper-arm definition, all in the next hour.