Self Esteem Quotes

When you continually worry about what other people think of you, they own you.

~ Donald L. Hicks

When you only know your faults and failures, you allow yourself and others to downgrade your dreams and belittle your wants.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Loving yourself doesn't make you selfish. When done correctly, the exact opposite occurs, because you know that selfish behaviors are negative for your mind, body and spirit.

~ Donald L. Hicks

Introspection is not a privilege, you don't have to subscribe to it. On any occasion you can discover wisdom and oneself.

~ Unarine Ramaru

The best way to reach your destination is to just keep going until you get there.

~ Eleanor Brownn

I believe now that we’re the enemy to the things we really want for our lives. We get really good at telling ourselves ugly lies on repeat every day. You’re unworthy. You’re ugly. You’re inadequate.

~ Hannah Brencher

Her skirt was nice, but she was wearing a dull-colored blouse that wasn't at all attractive. I'd have to remember to tell her not to wear it when she was with me if the two of us were going to get together, I thought

~ Jonas Karlsson

One day I realized, I am what I'm looking for. The love I've been searching the world for. When I devoutly love myself it's fulfilling, and it attracts others. They fight to love me twice as much.

~ Euphoria Godsent

You are you, no one else is you, you are the right you, and the right you, is the you that you love.

~ Ya'ira Somerville

It can be hard to hold onto your vision because other people will want you to be like they are. But your life has a course of its own, and only you can walk it.

~ Eleanor Brownn

All of the years I spent trying to be someone you could be proud of would have been better spent being proud of myself for who I already was.

~ Paula Heller Garland

When identity is based on outward titles, material possessions, academic achievements or even relationship status, we place ourselves in a very fragile state. Until we are simply “enough” because of who we are “being” and not because of what we are “doing,” our self-esteem and worth will continue to be “tossed to and fro,” as our outer conditions are subject to change.

~ Shannon Tanner

You have to look in the mirror and do one of two things; love or hate who you see. So, be good to yourself - it's all the esteem you have.

~ Stacy Snapp-Killian Aka Stacyk

The feelings is both the biggest poison and the greatest remedy. The wisdom and good sense define the best use.

~ Da Anunciação Marco

falling is MY passion, you don't have to do the same.

~ Mhq

watch out for schools that promise your kids will experience success. I'm teaching Plato's Dialogues these days, and I noticed that Socrates never let his students experience success. Socrates won the argument every time.

~ David Kahn

Make good choices and always do your best.

~ Yvonne Capitelli

If you fight yourself, you will lose, and fighting leaves scares.

~ Michelle Hodkin

That is because no one could ever hate me as much as I hate myself, okay? So any mean thing someone's gonna think of to say about me, I've already said to me, about me, probably within the last half hour.

~ Lena Dunham

I'd wasted so much time wishing I could be different, wishing I could change things, change myself...I thought it would be easier to be someone else than to be who I was becoming, but I didn't think that anymore

~ Michelle Hodkin

The greatest tool of self-love is self-awareness. Once you truly know yourself, love is the only option.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognize your own worth.

~ Maxwell Maltz

The only love you have to prove in life is your love of God and helping others. Anyone that can't see that has proven themselves to be unworthy of your time because why would you spend your life with someone that can't tell the difference between a diamond and dirt?

~ Shannon L. Alder

It has nothing to do with who I am as compared to everyone else. It has everything to do with who I am in companionship with God.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

How easy would it be to let the words uncurl from my tongue and glide slowly into the space between us? Let them light up the room in bright-orange neon: Here's your answer! Here's what you need to know! It's an incredible thing to have that kind of power. To know that your words could change everything.

~ Jennifer Wolf Kam

May Love, Joy and Abundance Rain on Every Being in the World.

~ Emmanuel Dagher

There is no dictionary in the world that includes the words ’skinny’ or ‘fat’ under the definitions of ‘beautiful’ and ‘ugly’. So, focus on being healthy and stop the self-criticism.

~ Maddy Malhotra

If you think you’re worthless, you’re not - but your limiting self-beliefs are. Change them.

~ Maddy Malhotra

Modesty isn’t always a virtue, it can be a hindrance, a careful measure of personal pride builds confidence and ensures success.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

What qualifies your worthiness is your self-regard.

~ Unarine Ramaru

In most cases, our thoughts about experiences that have happened to us cause greater grief than the events themselves. Understanding it may be difficult and require some effort, but remind yourself as often as you need to, that past and future exist only as stories in our minds.

~ J.f.kelly

What self-acceptance does is open up more possibilities of succeeding because you aren't fighting yourself along the way.

~ Shannon Ables

Just because you…achieve what you always thought would make you feel special does not fix that deep-down internal insecurity. External achievement never equals internal acceptance.

~ Lysa Terkeurst

God sees us differently. We see where we are but God sees where we can be.

~ Jamie Larbi

Don't shrink your standards, link yourself with those who think and ink like you.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

It is well understood in psychology that the subconscious mind has the dominant influence on human decision making, and therefore the pivotal role of the subconscious, for you to achieve success, is inescapable.

~ Kevin Michel

The subconscious mind is aware of the many worlds unfolding in each moment.

~ Kevin Michel

He'd wanted her. Out of all the women in the world, he'd wanted her. Wanted, hell, she thought grinning now. Pursued, demanded. Taken. And while she could admit all of that was exciting, he'd gone one step further.He cherished.She'd never believed anyone would, or could. And had never believed there was enough inside her to give all of those things back. (Lt. Eve Dallas)

~ J.d. Robb

You do not set a high enough value on yourself if you think a man who loves you should not weave you into the fabric of his life with every thread. — Robert Service to Constance MacLean, 1903 (age 28)

~ David Eso

when you believe inyourself, other people will believe inyou, too.

~ Sophia Amoruso