Self Esteem Quotes

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives. - Denis Waitley.

~ Denis Waitley

You have to respect a person for what he can do, and you can’t judge him to the fella who shoots ten people who feels nothing, goes to jail and come out and shoots ten more. You have to make people feel that whatever you are good at, we appreciate and respect you for that. Scrooge, former leader of the Rebellion Raiders street gang that once boasted of having some ten thousand membersRespecting people, coaching, gang recruitment, gang membership, gang leaders, street code, street life, gang involvement, team members, self-esteem, self-confidence, feeling respected, feeling wanted, feeling good feeling apart, Rebellions-Raiders, Rebellion RaidersYou have to respect a person for what he can do, and you can’t judge him to the fella who shoots ten people who feels nothing, goes to jail and come out and shoots ten more. You have to make people feel that whatever you are good at, we appreciate and respect you for that. Scrooge, former leader of the Rebellion Raiders street gang that once boasted of having some ten thousand members

~ Drexel Deal

I'm above crawling on my knees for certain favors. What you cannot give me: I cannot beg for it. This is not arrogance or pride. This is having a clear understanding of my self worth.

~ Joseph Ejiro

You don't have to be like anyone else. Just learn more about your own creative self and start blooming.

~ Deborah Day

There are many ways your intuition can get a message to you. You will start to pick them up once you learn to quiet the mental chatter.

~ Stevie Puckett

Real happiness comes from loving you're inner self and excepting the things you can't change. Flaws perfectly imperfect.

~ Shellie Palmer

One of the things we haven’t taught our people as a nation, that this is their country. We haven’t told them that this Bahamas belongs to them. Whether it succeeds or fails it is entirely up to them. WE haven’t told our people that they are valuable. I sometimes pass little boys playing in the road and I would stop my car and say to them: ‘Excuse me baby, do you realize how valuable you are? Do not play in the road, if anything happen to you that is going to hurt us. Because you might be our Prime Minister one day. Iris Adderley, consultant in the Disability Affairs Devision of The Department of Social Services.

~ Drexel Deal

Strive to be nurturing with yourself so you can be free!

~ Deborah Day

Observing someone doesn't mean that you know them. Too many folks think they know you when they really don't know you.

~ Werley Nortreus

one big problem and a great paradox in the arena of life is the problem of where or how a person is now and what, who and where he wants to be or have tomorrow. Had it not be this problem, we would have been relaxing all day long

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

She was so stupid. Such a stupid, stupid girl.For ever thinking she could be admired, adored, or noticed. For every thinking she could be anything at all.

~ Marissa Meyer

Exercising will builds esteem from within through action on one's own behalf; it disproves the premise that only another person can provide it. The result, long in coming and always worth the effort, is the experience of authentic agency in your own life, a sense of self that cannot be destroyed because it is not dependent on anyone else.

~ Jeanne Safer

The actual confident man, the man truly sure of himself, is not he who esteems himself higher than others, but he who is sure enough that he can bear to esteem others higher than himself.

~ Criss Jami

if you eat menand still feel like you’re starving, you’re craving something that they cannot give.

~ K.y. Robinson

We all have special attributes that are of value to someone. Find your place of value. You are never useless. You just need to find your place.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Is there a price too great to pay for your own happiness? What is the price that you are willing to pay for your own happiness?

~ Lenon Honor

Examine what you tolerate. What you put up with you end up with. What you allow continues. Reevaluate the costs and your worth.

~ Karen Salmansohn

Your actions are viewed by observers through prisms shaped by their own interpretations, and sometimes misinterpretations. All you can do is strive to be your best self. Let the chips fall where they may.

~ Cathryn Louis

In her mind, the ground rumbled and split open revealing the edge into a dark abyss. The shadows were always calling to her. Laughing at her. The familiar strains of loneliness flared under their torment. Drawing in a deep breath, she screamed to the black, “You’re not allowed to hurt me and know it!” Her voice echoed off the earthen walls and whispered back, “Be free. Be fearless.

~ Jesikah Sundin

Yet there’s no one to beat you | No one t’ defeat you | ’Cept the thoughts of yourself feeling bad

~ Bob Dylan

When you‟re taught from birth that you don‟t matter in any way, that your wants and even needs are irrelevant, then of course you‟ll struggle to value yourself.

~ Danu Morrigan

Love yourself and that is all the love you need.

~ Amit Abraham

I’m back there again, broken from being a champion,The boy that no one loved,The years I spent training like a method actor toBecome the man that everyone admired,But it means nothing, Like ashes on a forehead, they marked me inferior,When I was still young enough to receive it into the grain of my being

~ Terrence Alonzo Craft

Most important, I hope you grow into a woman who loves herself. It is not an easy thing, self-love. It takes a lot of practice and time. But as a woman who is learning how to get there herself, I hope I can give that gift to you as you grow.

~ Jodie Sweetin

Learn to love yourself.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When I'd tell my mother about these women around me - and how sometimes I felt that I didn't measure up - she'd chastise me for getting sucked into their nonsense. 'How do you expect to get where you want to go if you're rubbernecking at everyone else along the way? Don't focus on what you wrongly perceive as your shortcomings.

~ Holly Peterson

We are not as important to most people as we are to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we are—to most people—not important at all.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If we demand perfection from ourselves we are not living in the real world...The inherent problem in the relationship between the ideal & the real is that the ideal judges the real as unacceptable and brings down condemnation and wrath on the real. This sets up an adversarial relationship between the two and like all adversaries, they move further and further apart.

~ Henry Cloud

Empowered Women 101: If he can't tell other women that he is happily married and acts in a way that suggests he isn't fully committed then he isn't happy. He is keeping his foot in the door for a better opportunity should it not work out with you. Real women don't need to investigate. They invest in their self confidence and worth by not allowing their man to disrespect them. They are not afraid to ask themselves the tough questions: Why am I letting this man humiliate me and value me less than others? Why have I allowed myself to become a doormat?

~ Shannon L. Alder

You deserve to be rich. You deserve to live a happy life. You deserve peace of mind. You deserve respect. You deserve loving relationships. And YES, it’s all possible.

~ Maddy Malhotra

Her two outstanding characteristics were self-confidence and candor. The latter sometimes got her into hot water Durrance later told Charlotte, but the former kept it from scalding her.

~ Olive Higgins Prouty

Begin to love thyself.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Because a shadow was a thing that defined itself, and Nettie didn't have to fit anyone else's shape.

~ Lila Bowen

You cannot break me.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Sometimes I feel I am destined for greater things, and then again sometimes I suspect that I am just an extra in epic movie.

~ Shon Mehta

Remind your bones that that dance inside something worthy

~ Q. Gibson

Some days I feel like my worth is being reevaluated every five minutes.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Intrapersonal communication is a reflection of your self-esteem.

~ Asa Don Brown

Self-rejection is the biggest sin that you commit

~ Miguel Ruiz

The reason most relationships fail isn’t because we haven’t found the right person. It’s because we haven’t found ourselves and we’re hoping someone can fill that void for us. They can’t. No one can. Self-love is and always will be a prerequisite to every happy romance.

~ Vironika Tugaleva