Self Esteem Quotes

Learn to love and value yourself, regardless of the affections of others. Romantic love then becomes a wonderful bonus, rather than a necessity.

~ Joanne Madeline Moore

Make your inner foundations strong and secure and then you can enjoy your partner, rather than feeling you must own them.

~ Joanne Madeline Moore

Learn to love yourself for who you are, not just what you do - there is a big difference.

~ Joanne Madeline Moore

With strong self-esteem you can climb any mountain and weather any storm.

~ Joanne Madeline Moore

Define who you are. Define your future.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A girl should want to look good for herself, not for boys.

~ Lisi Harrison

I say that my value is based on my accomplishments. Christmas is God saying that I am His accomplishment and that will forever be enough.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Use the darkness of your past to propel you to a brighter future.

~ Donata Joseph

When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physical force.

~ Ayn Rand

As a young gay African, I have been conditioned from an early age to consider my sexuality a dangerous deviation from my true heritage as a Somali by close kin and friends. As a young gay African coming of age in London, there was another whiplash of cultural confusion that one had to recover from again and again: that accepting your sexual identity doesn’t necessarily mean that the wider LGBT community, with its own preconceived notions of what constitutes a valid queer identity, will embrace you any more welcomingly than your own prejudiced kinsfolk do.

~ Diriye Osman

Be self-indulgent, and those who are also self-indulgent will like you. Tear your neighbor to pieces, and the other neighbors will laugh. But if you beat your soul, all souls will cry out.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Believing in yourself means more than simply believing in your own ultimate success; it means believing you will survive failures, disappointments, rejections, and criticism but still persist.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I wear makeup and I don dramatic attire because I like control. I’m not interested in controlling others but I’m invested in strict self-governance. This is why I don’t do many face-to-face interviews. I don’t like being caught off-guard. It all goes back to that attempt to create order amidst disorder. One of the most frightening things about losing your mind is that you feel like your body, your brain, every part of your essence is being invaded. There is such a palpable helplessness to that narrative and I hate the sense of victimhood that it implies. Certainly, this is how I felt during my moments of psychological disquiet. I felt like my personhood was under attack. Performativity is important to me because I’m the teller of my own stories. I have been performing these multiple roles for so long that they have bled into my identity. I have become the man that I always wanted to be.

~ Diriye Osman

Home is in my hair, my lips, my arms, my thighs, my feet and my hands. I am my own home. And when I wake up crying in the morning, thinking of how lonely I am, I pinch my skin, tug at my hair, remind myself that I am alive. Remind myself to step outside and greet the morning. Remind myself that it’s all about forward motion. It’s all about change. It’s all about that elusive state. Freedom.

~ Diriye Osman

A leader helps others to reach their full leadership potential.

~ Artika Tyner

Love who you are and want you want to be.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I’m a short woman with a pretty good body and large breasts — that’s not what I think of as sexy.

~ Adrienne Barbeau

Things happened to the worst, I've lost many things and I've got many things but the precious thing I have with me right now is having me still. I love myself. I love myself unconditionally. I feel proud about myself. Now I'm living without limited because I have me.

~ Sivaprakash Sidhu

EdgesI am a child throwing rocks into the stream.Challenging the rushing water.Raising my fist and daring fate to do it worst.I am a dancer in the waves of the ocean.Swaying in time with the tide.Pirouetting, the current my only friend.I am the sun, rising across the canyonAscending, and shinning down.Giving the illusion of perception and motion.I am thoughts like a rolling river.Water cascading over the rocks of my soul.Shaping, forming, conforming.I am the peace of the rain forest.Basking in solitudeTranquil, serene, transfixing angles.Reflecting from within.Dripping and dropping. Shaking it off.I am the dust of the galaxy.Yearning to know itself.I am the wind.Wandering. Searching.A storm brewing from within.

~ Tosha Michelle

After an initial rush of pleasure that left me trembling with need, I broke off the heated kiss and whispered, Okay, you win.He leaned over me and said into my ear, Dutch, I won the moment you crawled into bed.He really did need to work on his self-esteem.

~ Darynda Jones

I've always been just me, but I was the last to know that it was all right.

~ Byron Katie

You have to understand your best. Your best isn't Barrymore's best or Olivier's best or my best, but your own. Every person has his norm. And in that norm every person is a star. Olivier could stand on his head and still not be you. Only you can be you. What a privilege! Nobody can reach what you can if you do it. So do it. We need your best, your voice, your body. We don't need for you to imitate anybody, because that would be second best. And second best is no better than your worst.

~ Stella Adler

You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives off scent, professionally.

~ Stella Adler

If you seek happiness through someone else's perspective, you might as well get comfortable in sorrow.

~ Unarine Ramaru

No serum can vhange who you are. Nor should you change. Genius or madness--it al depends on who's telling the story.

~ Megan Shepherd

The hero acts alone, without encouragement, relying solely on conviction and his own inner resources. Shame does not discourage him; neither does obloquy. Indifferent to approval, reputation, wealth, or love, he cherishes only his personal sense of honor, which he permits no one else to judge.[…] Guided by an inner gyroscope, he pursues his vision single-mindedly, undiscouraged by rejections, defeat, or even the prospect of imminent death.

~ William Manchester

Those who do not attempt to appear more than they are but are simply themselves, stand out as remarkable and are the only ones who truly make a difference in this world.

~ Eckhart Tolle

When we stop looking for someone to complete us... We find completion in ourselves.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

You've got to know thyself, date thyself and most importantly be thyself.

~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

When you have lived your life under such dominant image-leadership, its pressures put a certain invisible English on the cue ball of your development: It influences all of your ideas about who you should be, all the ways in which you become yourself.

~ Cintra Wilson

Self motivation leads to acceptance of thyself.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you put a small value on yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.

~ Unknown Author 909

Every single man who is too stupid enough to realize how beautiful is God's creation through WOMEN and continuously lay his hand on them, he is not man enough to be classified with the rest of us.

~ Unarine Ramaru

Something inside her opened strong and raw while she played with those two words. I matter.

~ A. Lynn

A beautiful person is not defined by a hair style, a pair of shoes, it’s not the logos on the T-shirt, the sport’s team on a hat, the designer’s name on a hand bag, or even how you smell.Instead, beauty lies in who you are when no one is watching, the person you are when there’s nothing to hide behind. No amount of concealer can cover up a cantankerous heart, but all the make-up in the world can’t add a single lumen to the brightness of a beautiful soul.

~ Justin Young

Yes, Eleanor loathed herself and yet required praise, which she then never believed.

~ Hanif Kureishi

I am convinced that the jealous, the angry, the bitter and the egotistical are the first to race to the top of mountains. A confident person enjoys the journey, the people they meet along the way and sees life not as a competition.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The trick for introverts is to honor their styles instead of allowing themselves to be swept up by prevailing norms.

~ Susan Cain

If you want to improve your self-worth, stop giving other people the calculator.

~ Tim Fargo

To be unique calls for being unique in such a way that your uniqueness doesn't make others appear inferior, and a uniqueness that doesn't crave for anything apart from your own thing.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson