Self Esteem Quotes

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection

~ Sharon Salzberg

In youth, it was a way I had,To do my best to please.And change, with every passing ladTo suit his theories.But now I know the things I knowAnd do the things I do,And if you do not like me so,To hell, my love, with you.

~ Dorothy Parker

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

~ Sharon Salzberg

That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pretence. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act - and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image, they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it, they feel like you're trying to steal their most precious possession.

~ Jim Morrison

It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.

~ John Joseph Powell

Dare to love yourselfas if you were a rainbowwith gold at both ends.

~ Aberjhani

People who love themselves, don’t hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer.

~ Dan Pearce

Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings.

~ Asa Don Brown

Life is like a game of chess.To win you have to make a move.Knowing which move to make comes with IN-SIGHTand knowledge, and by learning the lessons that areacculated along the way.We become each and every piece within the game called life!

~ Allan Rufus

I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated your lover knows you can't.

~ Marilyn Vos Savant

For there are two kinds of forgiveness in the world: the one you practice because everything really is all right, and what went before is mended. The other kind of forgiveness you practice because someone needs desperately to be forgiven, or because you need just as badly to forgive them, for a heart can grab hold of old wounds and go sour as milk over them.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

If you don't know what you want, you'll never find it.If you don't know what you deserve, you'll always settle for less.You will wander aimlessly, uncomfortably numb in your comfort zone, wondering how life has ended up here.Life starts now, live, love, laugh and let your light shine!

~ Rob Liano

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

~ Marianne Williamson

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.

~ Harvey Fierstein

How would your life be different if…You stopped allowing other people to dilute or poison your day with their words or opinions? Let today be the day…You stand strong in the truth of your beauty and journey through your day without attachment to the validation of others

~ Steve Maraboli

Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.

~ Shannon L. Alder

If you have a dream, don’t just sit there. Gather courage to believe that you can succeed and leave no stone unturned to make it a reality.

~ Roopleen

Be an Encourager: When you encourage others, you boost their self-esteem, enhance their self-confidence, make them work harder, lift their spirits and make them successful in their endeavors. Encouragement goes straight to the heart and is always available. Be an encourager. Always.

~ Roy T. Bennett

You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.

~ Diane Von Furstenberg

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

~ Madonna

Write it on your heart you are the most beautiful soul of the Universe. Realize it, honor it and celebrate the life.

~ Amit Ray

Be patient. Your skin took a while to deteriorate. Give it some time to reflect a calmer inner state. As one of my friends states on his Facebook profile: The true Losers in Life, are not those who Try and Fail, but those who Fail to Try.

~ Jess C. Scott

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

~ Marilyn Monroe

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

~ Michel De Montaigne

Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions ... Do your thing, and don't care if they like it.

~ Tina Fey

Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it's not a place on the map at all, but just a story full of people you meet and places you visit, full of books and films you've been to. I'm not afraid of being homesick and having no language to live in. I don't have to be like anyone else. I'm walking on the wall and nobody can stop me.

~ Hugo Hamilton

You have a unique gift to offer this world. Be true to yourself, be kind to yourself, read and learn about everything that interests you and keep away from people who bring you down. When you treat yourself kindly and respect the uniqueness of those around you, you will be giving this world an amazing gift... YOU!

~ Steve Maraboli

In your own life it's important to know how spectacular you are.

~ Steve Maraboli

Don't try to fix me, I'm not broken...

~ Evanescence

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

~ Mae West

I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious recognition of something, which we really knew all the time but, because we were unwilling to formulate it correctly, we did not hitherto know we knew.

~ W.h. Auden

We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Love me or hate me, i swear it won't make or break me.

~ Lil Wayne

Forget about self-image and self-judgment. It's about self-love, and no one teaches you that at school. No one teaches you that if you accept and love yourself, nothing and no one can touch you. This is the only face and body you're ever going to get, so be comfortable and happy in it. Own it. Own every aspect of who you are and present it to the world with the utmost pride.

~ Connor Franta

even in the loneliest momentsi have been therefor myself.

~ Sanober Khan

Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.

~ Aberjhani

The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters.

~ Stefan Molyneux

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable, what it is or what it means can never be said.

~ George Santayana

To be yourself is in many ways to be inconvenient to others. Only placaters and appeasers get along with other people all the time and that's not really getting along with anyone. That's just self erasure.

~ Stefan Molyneux

The three most important words in a relationship are not, 'I love you,' but, 'Tell me more.

~ Stefan Molyneux