Quotes about self
self-esteem exercise thinking
It is easy enough to say, Be true to your values. But what if your values are irrational? Or what if the virtues you have committed yourself to are so much against human nature that they cannot be practiced consistently? Be careful of what you accept as your code of morality. Think carefully about whether its tenets serve your life and well being. Exercise critical judgment. Realize how much is at stake-your life, your happiness, your self-esteem. Nathaniel Branden
self-esteem self-confidence self-respect
If you feel inadequate to face challenges, unworthy of love or respect, untitled to happiness, and fear assertive thought, wants, or needs- if you lack basic self trust, self-respect, and self-confidence- your self-esteem deficiency will limit you, no matter what other assets you possess.
self-esteem self-confidence important
The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.
self-esteem moving talking
As you grow in self-esteem, your face, manner, way of talking and moving will tend naturally to project the pleasure you take in being alive.
self-esteem feelings exposure
To attain "success" without attaining positive self-esteem is to be condemned to feeling like an imposter anxiously awaiting exposure.
self achievement feelings
The greatest barrier to achievement and success is not lack of talent or ability but rather the feeling that achievement and success, above a certain level, are outside our self-concept-our image of who we are and what is appropriate to us.
self-esteem reality choices
Your choices have psychological consequences. The way you choose to deal with reality, truth, facts - your choice to honor or dishonor your own perceptions - registers in your mind, for good or for bad, and either confirms and strengthens your self-esteem or undermines and weakens it.
self expression challenges
One of the hardest expressions of self-assertiveness is challenging your limiting beliefs.
self-esteem integrity expression
In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity, those who preserve their self-esteem are likely to be heroic exceptions.
self-esteem stress practice
Stressing the practice of living purposefully as essential to fully realized self-esteem is not equivalent to measuring an individual's worth by his or her external achievements. We admire achievements-in ourselves and others-and it is natural and appropriate for us to do so. But that is not the same thing as saying that our achievements are the measure or grounds of our self-esteem. The root of our self-esteem is not our achievements but those internally generated practices that, among other things, make it possible for us to achieve.
self-esteem recovery emotional
If you have high self-esteem, you might still know times of emotional suffering, but less often and with faster recovery-your resilience is greater.
self guilt done
What is guilt? It is moral self-reproach-I did wrong when it was possible to have done otherwise.
self-esteem home people
We tend to feel most comfortable, "most at home", with people whose self esteem level resembles our own.
self-esteem self-worth possibility
Our motive is not to prove our self-worth, but to live up to our possibilities.
self-esteem stronger needs
The higher our self-esteem, the stronger the drive to express ourselves, reflecting the sense of richness within. The lower our self-esteem, the more urgent the need to "prove" ourselves or to forget ourselves by living mechanically and unconsciously.
self-esteem eye acceptance
The more you surrender to the fear of someone's disapproval, the more you lose face in your own eyes, and the more desperate you become for someone's approval. Within you is a void that should have been filled by self-esteem. When you attempt to fill it with the approval of others instead, the void grows deeper and the hunger for acceptance and approval grows stronger. The only solution is to summon the courage to honor your own judgment, frightening though that may be in the beginning.
self-esteem expression accomplishment
Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.
self-esteem greatness destiny
Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not. Nathaniel Hawthorne
self irony logic
Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity. Moss Hart
self deception tools
Self-deception is sometimes as necessary a tool as a crowbar.
self hatred promise
The self-hatred that destroys is the waste of unfulfilled promise.
self-worth self misery
Self worth is everything. Without it life is a misery. Julie Walters
selfish should-have victory
When I read the Bible, I see that we should have victory in our life and be overcomers, and I can't even control my temper. I'm impatient. I'm hard to get along with. I'm selfish and self-centered, and I don't seem to have any control over it. Joyce Meyer
selfish impossible
It is impossible to be both selfish and happy
self soul mind
Your soul is your mind, your will and your emotions. When the Word gets rooted in there and begins to change your mind, it begins to heal your emotions and turn your will away from self-will and onto doing the will of God.
self-confidence self needs
We don’t need self-confidence we need God-confidence
self-esteem prove esteem
You're not free, unless you come to the place where you have nothing to prove.
self unity principles
I have given no definition of love. This is impossible, because there is no higher principle by which it could be defined. It is life itself in its actual unity. The forms and structures in which love embodies itself are the forms and structures in which love overcomes its self-destructive forces. Paul Tillich
self vanishing improvement
The greatest justification for travel is not self-improvement but rather performing a vanishing act, disappearing without a trace. Paul Theroux
self individuality conformity
I am neither for conformity nor non-conformity. I am for individuality. If one's individuality is in effect non-conformity, then so be it. But basically, one's individuality consists of conformity--to one's self. Paul Krassner
self ideas australia
The lesson of the Federation should be that the lesson is over. Australia must have a new idea of itself. We have to strike out in a new direction, in a new way, armed with our own self-regard, our own confidence and fully appreciating our own uniqueness. All other roads will lead us into the shadow of great powers. Paul Keating
self drawing lines
In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better. Paul Klee
self play light
Each energy calls for its complementary energy to achieve self-contained stability based on the play of energies.