Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sean William Scott

I wish I had more confidence.

Laurie David

The table is the number one place we pass on family stories and it's the knowledge of where your family came from that helps build self-esteem and resiliency in kids. When we stop having dinners, we stop passing on those stories. And, of course, when you make food at home you actually know what's in the food you are eating. It is the healthiest, greenest thing you can do!

Laurie Halse Anderson

There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.

Laurie Halse Anderson

I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.

Joseph Wood Krutch

The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.

Josh Billings

No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

Oscar Wilde

Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.

Kanye West

I refuse to follow the rules where society tries to control people with low self esteem.

Kanye West

Brands are selling our self-esteem back to us, through association. We need to own our brands.

Joyce Meyer

You're not free, unless you come to the place where you have nothing to prove.

Patrick Stump

Good! Hang in there! It's normal! [Low self-esteem] Often it's a sign of intelligence (but don't let that go to your head haha)

Woodrow Wilson

One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

Woodrow Wilson

All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation.

William James

Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.

Samuel Smiles

Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired.

Tucker Max

Motherfucker. She leaves me no choice. Now I have to break her self-esteem, sleep with her and steal the shirt.

Tupac Shakur

I feel like our future is our confidence and self-esteem.

Tracy McMillan

Women with low self-esteem love bad boys. Women who have work to do love bad boys. Women who love themselves love good men.

Van Wyck Brooks

Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.

Robin Williams

You're best when you're not in charge. The ego locks the muse.

Samuel Johnson

Wisdom and virtue are by no means sufficient, without the supplemental laws of good-breeding, to secure freedom from degenerating into rudeness, or self esteem from swelling into insolence. A thousand incivilities may be committed, and a thousand offices neglected. without any remorse of conscience, or reproach from reason.

Willa Cather

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.

Wayne Dyer

You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being - not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money - but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.

Wayne Dyer

Self-esteem comes from the self, not from acquisitions and approval.

There are, however, exceptions to this reliance on feelings as evidence of truth: if, for instance, your feelings lead to disbelief instead of belief, they're apt to be dismissed as some form of denial. This is not a common problem. Usually intellectualism, not feeling reality, is blamed for disbelief. But, some angel experts suggest, there may be emotional as well as intellectual barriers to belief: unwillingness to believe in angels can reflect low self-esteem.

Wayne Dyer

In God's eyes, no one on this planet is any better than you.

Wayne Dyer

You have a one of a kind gift to offer this world, and you are unique in the entire history of creation.

Wayne Dyer

Be aware of your infinite connection to your source. Know that you're more than an encapsulated collection of bones, blood and organs in a skin and hair covered body.

Wayne Dyer

Accept that you are enough. You don't need to be anything that you are not.

Wayne Dyer

What you feel is wrong or missing in your relationships is an indication that something is amiss within you.

Wayne Dyer

You... and only you choose your thoughts.

Robert Sternberg

But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this little box and then do their research inside it.

Walt Whitman

I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.