Self Esteem Quotes

If you believe that you can use sex to shore up your fragile self-esteem by stealing someone else's, we feel sorry for you, because this will never work to build a solid sense of self worth, and you will have to go on stealing more and more and never getting fulfilled.

~ Dossie Easton

If you celebrate your differentness, the world will, too. It believes exactly what you tell it—through the words you use to describe yourself, the actions you take to care for yourself, and the choices you make to express yourself. Tell the world you are one-of-a-kind creation who came here to experience wonder and spread joy. Expect to be accommodated.

~ Victoria Moran

Be cheerful!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Eat like you love your body.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Your greatest gift is your life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Don’t compare yourself with others. You are one of a kind!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Each day, write a thankful note.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

People may not see you the way you see yourself. But, that's because they don't want to acknowledge your uniqueness. Jealousy is not disguised.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

The only reason you continue to love someone who treats you poorly is because you don't value yourself enough.

~ Rob Liano

Many are never satisfied. They always want more ; and then when they get more, they are still not content. I think mostly because they are trying to keep up with others. You have to live within your means or you'll find yourself trying to dig your way out of a hole. Whatever is meant for you is for you. Don't lose yourself trying to live another's life

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

It is great joy to love and be loved.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Dignity will only happen when you realize that having someone in your life doesn’t validate your worth.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Winning doesn't necessarily mean you'll walk away with a trophy. Sometimes winning means you dared to show up at all to see the shocked look of your rivals.

~ Donavan Nelson Butler

In the moment of decision, may you hear the voice of the Creator saying, ‘This is right road, travel on it.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is easy to give up than to endure. Always choose the latter.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Knowledge is life. The more informed you are, the better you are in making the best decision.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I see any difficulty as an adventure.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In life, when one gets to the point of a deeper sense of understanding about himself and his purpose, he least explains himself much to people who fail to understand him and his purpose. That must not be interpreted as neither pride nor an uncaring attitude but a great respect for purposefulness

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Sell your materials but save your morals.

~ Amit Kalantri

At any given moment, you have the power to say: This is not how the story is going to end.

~ Christine Mason Miller

You can overcome whatever is going on around you if you believe in the light that lives within you.

~ Justine Edward

The problem nowadays is that children have become too much the center of attention. Their parents, their families, everybody around them feels a need to put them on a pedestal. So much effort is invested in boosting their self-esteem that they are made to feel special in and of themselves, without having done anything.

~ Rafael Nadal

Despite how lonely or broken down you might feel, we need you with us helping to make the world better, kinder and safer, especially for the little girls coming up.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

When I encourage someone, I see it as an investment in their resilience.

~ Steve Karagiannis

Of course our most important role as a parent is to have our children know that they are loved and worthy. Even more importantly, it's to help them discover, and fan the flames of whatever it is that they are enthusiastic about!

~ Steve Karagiannis

Parents need to fill a child’s bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can’t oke enough holes to drain it dry.

~ Alvin Price

Children need to know that the things that make them vastly different from one another are the very things that make them beautifully special.

~ Tiffany Haisten

What if happiness was a choice?

~ Sunanda J. Chatterjee

How you spend your time when you are not working or studying says everything about who you are and what is motivating your life.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

You battled monsters. You sweat and cried your way to this one prolific moment where you finally realize that those dark days and sleepless nights were pre-requisites to your becoming.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

I never want a girl to lose all hope that her life can’t completely turn around, even if she feels that she is at the edge, standing on one foot, and ready to say goodbye.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

We live in a world where there is such a clear definition of what a girl should be that it takes almost no effort at all to completely hate ourselves.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

Remember, nothing happens before it’s supposed to, so trust that, as you are striving for authenticity and personal excellence, the recognition of your life’s purpose is nearing closer.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

I think it all basically breaks down to something like this: You have to look and feel great first. If you eat well, exercise and get enough sleep, you will have ample energy and the proper self-confidence to create and produce beyond your wildest dreams! Looking great and radiating positive energy, while presenting your highest quality work, is what will always make you the most valuable and only logical choice in whatever it is that you reach for.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

Although many things may still need to happen before you identify what your exact work will be, I know that every single person whom you’re meeting and every experience that you’re having is necessary to you discovering your purpose. They are points on a map leading you to the moment where a match will finally be lit and you will be able to see through the darkness.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

Recognize that you have been chosen to be alive, right now, at this exact moment in time and know that none of that is random. There is something about you, your past or your future that is required at this exact moment in history. We need to know who you are and what you have been through.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

Finding yourself and creating a life that feels authentic and safe is the hardest, most important work that we will ever do and for girls, especially young girls, there is no one more equipped to do this work.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

The only way that you can identify and then fulfill your life’s purpose is for you to love yourself, charge up your life and serve the world.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

Sometimes you have to let go a little bit and travel the path of least resistance but this doesn’t mean that you quit when things get tough, as you are working towards a goal! It just means that you may only be able to see a rough draft of your final destination, right now, and that it’s safe to explore along the way.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

As girls, we will do anything for the person whom we love. We will scale buildings in the rain or run through fire if it means saving our love’s life. There is absolutely nothing more life altering that the fire burning inside of our souls for the one we want most…

~ Jennifer Elisabeth