Self-Esteem Quotes

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.
Kurt Cobain

Time, Good, Everything

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.
Margaret Thatcher

Yourself, Important, Pride

Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.
Naomi Campbell

Anger, Insecurity, Loneliness

Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem.
David D. Burns

Hope, Depression, Loved

People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem.
Mitt Romney

Work, Long, Political

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
Thomas Carlyle

Nothing, Builds

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.
Nathaniel Branden

Respect, Kindness, Others

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
Sam Walton

Amazing, Themselves, Leaders

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it's unbelievable!
Angelina Jolie

Time, God, Struggle

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

True, Forget, Lives

Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.
Scott Hamilton

Give, Adversity, Value

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.
Thomas Szasz

Learning, Children, Before

I don't have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I've been too lucky and that I'm over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated.
Christopher Hitchens

Sometimes, Sense, Makes

Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.
Fritz Perls

Judge, Makes, Everybody

Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.
Albert Ellis

Greatest, Woman, Known

If we get our self-esteem from superficial places, from our popularity, appearance, business success, financial situation, health, any of these, we will be disappointed, because no one can guarantee that we'll have them tomorrow.
Kathy Ireland

Success, Health, Business

Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.
Maxwell Maltz

Life, Through, Driving

Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.
Louise Hart

Happiness, Health, Important

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.
Eric Hoffer

Crisis, Adjustment

Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.
Eric Hoffer

Specific, Smelled

I didn't have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager, as I think most teen-agers don't.
Alanis Morissette

Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.
Laura Schlessinger

Character, Integrity, Worry

I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good. Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.
Jay Leno

Work, Good, Best

Well, we all know that self-esteem comes from what you think of you, not what other people think of you.
Gloria Gaynor

I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.
Paul Wellstone

Leadership, Power, Real

I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.
James Taylor

Musicians, Suffer, Low

No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.
Martha Beck

Life, Death, Alone

Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.
Imran Khan

Fight, Balance, Deprives

High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future; self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.
James Wolcott

Age, Future, Yourself

I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
Bell Hooks

Black, Seriously

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