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May these quotes about Self Esteem inspire and motivate you.
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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Insult comes not from the mouth,
but from the ear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Inferiority Complex:
a name for not loving yourself enough.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better
to displease the people by doing what you know is right,
than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
- William J. H. Boetcker
Don't take rejection personally.
Don't let someone else's bad day spoil your day.
As long as you never reject yourself, you'll be fine.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing,
and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- George Bernard Shaw
So your father, or your mother,
never thought you were good enough - SO WHAT?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No amount of self-improvement can make up
for a lack of self-acceptance.
- Anonymous
If you fear making anyone mad,
then you ultimately probe for
the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
- Jimmy Carter
Once you respect yourself, there is no longer
any reason to disrespect anyone else.
Once you are confident of your own worthiness,
the worthiness of others ceases to be an issue.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Loneliness is not what it seems.
One does not feel lonely because one is alone,
but because of a feeling of lack -
a feeling that something is missing.
Loneliness is essentially independent
of how many other humans are around.
It has much more to do with one's self-esteem -
one's sense of inherent worth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness blooms
in the presence of self-respect
and the absence of ego.
Love yourself.
Love everyone around you.
Love everyone in the whole world.
Know that your own life is of infinite importance,
as is every other life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
- Oprah Winfrey
While it is natural to feel some degree of
need for the approval of others, be careful.
If you find yourself unwilling to
take actions that others disapprove of,
you have lost control of your own life
and have given your destiny to others.
An excessive need-for-approval
is a sign of low self-esteem,
and in severe cases, a condition termed co-dependency.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Self-honor (self-respect) is in no way selfish.
Before I can give to others,
I must have something to give.
Only by first creating
my own self-esteem and happiness,
do I possess the resources to
contribute anything meaningful to others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.
- George Carlin
A working definition of Honor is,
"respect or esteem that has been earned."
Contemplate that for a moment.
It would be very special to earn the respect and esteem
of our family, our friends, our co-workers, our community, wouldn't it?
If anything, it is of even more moment to honor yourself.
Those who are successful and happy earn their own
self-respect and self-esteem.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Talent is God-given; be humble.
Fame is man-given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
- John Wooden
Don't live your life to please other people.
- Oprah Winfrey
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,
while others judge us by what we have already done.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
- Albert Einstein
Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you,
but it is most important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
We should be too big to take offense
and too noble to give it.
- Abraham Lincoln
Your time is limited,
so don't waste it living someone else's life.
- Steve Jobs
Put on your own oxygen mask first.
- Airline companies
You can't be everything to everyone.
- Bill Cosby
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
When you do your best
you learn to accept yourself
- don Miguel Ruiz
Truth stands, even if there be no public support.
It is self-sustained.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The higher the sun rises, the less shadow it casts;
even so, the greater is the goodness, the less it covets praise;
yet cannot avoid its rewards in honors.
- Lao Tzu
The minority is always stronger than the majority,
because the minority is generally formed by those
who really have an opinion.
- Soren Kierkegaard
A man who as a physical being
is always turned toward the outside,
thinking that his happiness lies outside him,
finally turns inward and
discovers that the source is within him.
- Soren Kierkegaard
You cannot build character and courage by
taking away a man's initiative and independence.
- Abraham Lincoln
Be that self which one truly is.
- Soren Kierkegaard
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
Society censors our actions,
but our dreams reveal our true character.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
WHY do you care what THEY think?
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
- Leonardo da Vinci
When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
- Lao Tzu
People should think things out fresh
and not just accept conventional terms
and the conventional way of doing things.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
- Stevie Wonder
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Khalil Gibran
What you are comes to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gain happiness by living in the present -
without regret for the past or fear of the future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb
What we call human nature in actuality is human habit.
- Jewel
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
Society is a masked ball,
where every one hides his real character,
and reveals it by hiding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self,
can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Self denial is an indulgence to the ego.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
Once you label me, you negate me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The Four Agreements
1.Be impeccable with your word.
2.Don't take anything personally.
3.Don't make assumptions.
4.Always do your best.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The flower which is single need not envy
the thorns that are numerous.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed;
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Many persons have a wrong idea of
what constitutes true happiness.
It is not attained through self-gratification
but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
- Helen Keller
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
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