Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Patterson

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

Stacy London

Self-esteem doesn't come simply from dressing well, but they are both something we can control. It's a missed opportunity when women say they don't have the money, figure, etc., because style is such a way to help cultivate the way women feel about themselves.

Stacy London

We all put obstacles in our own path toward personal style, myself included. If we understood why we constructed these practical and emotional obstacles, we might move beyond it to healthier, happier perceptions of ourselves and, ideally, a better sense of self-esteem.

Stacy London

Your self-esteem won't come from body parts. You need to step away from the mirror every once in a while, and look for another reflection, like the one in the eyes of the people who love you and admire you.

Stefan Zweig

There is nothing that so raises a young man's self-esteem, that so contributes to the formation of his character as for him to find himself unexpectedly confronted with a task which he has to accomplish entirely on his own initiative and by his own efforts.

Tracey Gold

When I was 19 years old, I came down with anorexia. I had it for about a year before it became public. And it had a lot to do with my self-esteem.

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.

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.

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.

Whoopi Goldberg

You have to believe in yourself in spite of what other people believe.

Whoopi Goldberg

For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues.

Saint Augustine

Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.

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.

William Arthur Ward

Our words reveal our thoughts; our manners mirror our self-esteem; our actions reflect our character; our habits predict the future.

Winston Churchill

I know of no case where a man added to his dignity by standing on it.

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.

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.

Walt Whitman

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

Sarah Dessen

Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine.

Roseanne Barr

Self-esteem is the goddamn root of all evil.