Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nathaniel Branden

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.

Mother Teresa

Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.

Monica Edwards

There is nothing so lowering to one's self-esteem as the affectionate contempt of a beloved cat.

Molly Ringwald

Getting the pretty back is about getting back in touch with your essential self: the part of you that knows what you really want.

Mira Sorvino

As a youth, I hated myself for not being good enough. All my inadequacies and failures, not being kind enough, generous or understanding enough, would assail me at night. It became a habit to be guilty and self castigating, not liking myself because I was unworthy... I really tortured myself.

Philip Green

You've got to be a believer in what you do.

Philip Green

Whenever I have faced a setback I have dusted myself down and got on with the rest of my life because I believed in myself.

Terry Tempest Williams

What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self Esteem::"It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. I knew a man of simple habits and earnest character who never put out his hands nor opened his lips to court the public, and having survived several rotten reputations of younger men, honor came at last and sat down with him upon his private bench from which he had never stirred."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow in a herd, or when they cater for their establishment.

Leonard Nimoy

There are studies that tell us that stress and lack of self-image, lack of self-esteem, severe dieting, binge dieting and binge eating can also be very damaging to a body and bring on various kinds of abnormalities.

Laura Schlessinger

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem. . . . Not doing right may have momentary payoffs but will wreak havoc with your self-esteem, respect from others, and quality of life.

Laura Schlessinger

A woman should always be more concerned with standing up for what is right than making sure everyone 'likes' her.

Marcus Aurelius

For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.

Thomas a Kempis

The highest in God's esteem are the lowest in their own.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

Linda Ellerbee

Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn't.

Pythagoras

Repect yourself... The rest will follow.

Queen Latifah

If we focus on our health, including our inner health, our self-esteem, and how we look at ourselves and our confidence level, we'll tend to be healthier people anyway, we'll tend to make better choices for our lives, for our bodies, we'll always be trying to learn more, and get better as time goes on.

Queen Latifah

I approach the film business the way I feel about self-esteem. It's something that has to be maintained. That's kind of how I feel about positive roles in Hollywood. They have to be maintained. You have to purposefully, intentionally try to make the right type of films. And the more people that do that, the more things will continue to improve.

Queen Latifah

I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all.

Kofi Annan

The number one goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintain their self-esteem. You don't hit a man on the head when you've got your fingers between his teeth.

Kelly Osbourne

I was called fat and ugly in the press almost my entire life. I understand that being judged by others comes with the territory, but it broke my heart and ruined my self-esteem.

Katy Perry

Find out what your gift is and nurture it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings

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.

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.