Self-Esteem Quotes

SELF-ESTEEM controls PERFORMANCE/REALITY which stimulate SELF-TALK which reinforces SELF-ESTEEM. This cycle can work positively or negatively and is greatly influenced by the self-talk (“I knew I wasn’t good at –” vs “next time I’ll practice and do better at –“).

STEPS TO HAPPINESS: You can’t be all things to all people. You can’t do all things at once. You can’t do all things equally well. You can’t do all things better than everyone else. Your humanity is showing just like everyone else’s. So: You have to find out who you are, and be that. You have to decide what comes first, and do that. You have to discover your strengths, and use them. You have to learn not to compete with others, Because no one else is in the contest of *being you*. Then: You will have learned to accept your own uniqueness. You will have learned to set priorities and make decisions. You will have learned to live with your limitations. You will have learned to give yourself the respect that is due. And you’ll be a most vital mortal. Dare To Believe: That you are a wonderful, unique person. That you are a once-in-all-history event. That it’s more than a right, it’s your duty, to be who you are. That life is not a problem to solve, but a gift to cherish. And you’ll be able to stay one up on what used to get you down.

You yourself are more deserving of your loving kindness than anyone you can search out.

When the fight begins within himself, a man’s worth something.

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

Think about yourself and give others the privilege of doing so.

The most important thought you can ever hold is: Your life matters.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

Some people who think that everything is a nail, are down on themselves because they are not a hammer. They tend to deprecate their own unique talents and capacities to use a chisel or a pair of pliers.

Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.

SELF-ESTEEM: Jesuit priests rated themselves in the top 2% of performers of all Jesuit priests. Physicians rated themselves in the top 1% of performers of all physicians.

Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life – there, if one must speak out, the real man.

Occasionally, it’s a good idea to blow your own horn. Otherwise, someone else may start using it as a spittoon!

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.

No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

No one can make me feel inferior but myself.

LOW SELF-ESTEEM: Like driving through life with your hand-brake on.

In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.

If you have your sight, you are blessed. If you have insight, you are a thousand times blessed.

If I am what I have And if I lose what I have Who then am I?

Guilt is the only emotion that we teach.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances – to choose one’s own way.

Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of “Try to fix me.” Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

Be Yourself.

90% of who you are you can’t touch, feel or smell.