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
Self-esteem is like a difficult-to-cultivate flower. It requires frequent nurturing that occurs when you keep your word and follow through on your promises. — Derrick Bell
There's a lot of talk about self-esteem these days. It seems pretty basic to me. If you eat to feel proud of yourself, you've got to do things you can be proud of. Feelings follow actions. — Oseola McCarty
When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too. — Jake Steinfeld
To build your self image, you need to join the smile, firm handshake and compliment club. — Zig Ziglar
Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential. — Sheryl Sandberg
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. — Foster C. Mcclellan
Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival. — Martha Gellhorn
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
Self esteem comes from achievements. Not from lax standards and false praise. — Condoleezza Rice
If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride — Karen Horney
Boost Your Self Esteem Image Quotes
Maturity is learning to walk away from people and situation that threaten your peace of mind, self respect, values, morals and self worth.
Boost Self Esteem Quotes
I wish I could show you...the astonishing light of your own being. — Hafez
We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. — Marie Curie
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. — Marie Curie
We are what we believe we are.
You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough. — Abraham Lincoln
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. — Malcolm Forbes
You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be. — Lou Holtz
Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope. — Bruce Lee
Many of our ideas and beliefs about ourselves and the world are so deeply ingrained that we are unaware that they are beliefs and take them, without question, for the absolute truth. — Rupert Spira
You are here to enable the divine purpose of the Universe to unfold. That is how important you are! — Eckhart Tolle
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. — Dr. Seuss
Improve Self Esteem Quotes
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped. — Tony Robbins
No amount of self-improvement can make up for any lack of self-acceptance. — Robert Holden
It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life,it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power! — Robert Kiyosaki
The only thing I pay attention to with free throws is what a guy does in the final four minutes of a game. If you can improve players' self-esteem and confidence, get them to relax, teach visualization and routine, they will shoot as well, or better, with the pressure on. — John Calipari
Once a depressed person becomes active and hopeful, self-esteem always improves. Bolstering self-esteem without changing hopelessness, without changing passivity, accomplishes nothing. — Martin Seligman
Negative thinking patterns can be immensely deceptive and persuasive, and change is rarely easy. But with patience and persistence, I believe that nearly all individuals suffering from depression can improve and experience a sense of joy and self-esteem once again. — David D. Burns
The power of self goes beyond words. Self confidence, self improvement, self esteem, self enhancement, self love ... Get yourself right first! — Behdad Sami
Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce. — Gavin Newsom
If you improve a teacher's self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher's overall effectiveness across the curriculum. — Elaine MacDonald
Contrary to popular thinking, being worthy isn't something you earn, it's something you recognize. — Mike Dooley
Raise Self Esteem Quotes
If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic. — Jean Sibelius
If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too. — Tim Ferriss
My mom raise me so wonderfully. She gave me self esteem and made me appreciate my flaws, as well as my strengths. — Kirsten Dunst
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not. — Eric Thomas
Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it. — Bryce Courtenay
Healthy parenting is nothing if not a process of empowerment. As we help to raise our children's self-esteem, we also increase their personal power. When we encourage them to be confident, self-reliant, self-directed, and responsible individuals, we are giving them power. — Louise Hart
Every time you encounter something that forces you to “handle it,” your self-esteem is raised considerably. You learn to trust that you will survive, no matter what happens. And in this way your fears are diminished immeasurably. — Susan Jeffers
In putting everyone else down, I am raising myself up... and this will continue until my self-esteem rises. I have just sorted out the mystery of why I am always putting down everybody else's artwork. — Jim Rowe
There is nothing that so raises a young man's self-esteem, that so contributes to the formation of his character as for him to find himself unexpectedly confronted with a task which he has to accomplish entirely on his own initiative and by his own efforts. — Stefan Zweig
Lust, Pride, Sloth, and Gluttony, or, as we call them these days, "getting in touch with your sexuality," "raising your self-esteem," "relaxation therapy," and "being a recovered bulimic." — P. J. O'Rourke
Help Self Esteem Quotes
Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you. — Mother Teresa
Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves. — Nathaniel Branden
I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all. — Queen Latifah
When you acquire enough inner peace and feel really positive about yourself, it's almost impossible for you to be controlled and manipulated by anybody else. — Wayne Dyer
Words may help you understand something, but experience allows you to know. Never ever trade your own experience for someone else's words about anything that is really important... like God, for instance, or Love, or what is true about another. — Neale Donald Walsch
Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem. We cannot draw to ourselves more than we think we are worth. — Iyanla Vanzant
Transformation is not five minutes from now; it's a present activity. In this moment you can make a different choice, and it's these small choices and successes that build up over time to help cultivate a healthy self-image and self esteem. — Jillian Michaels
Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable, and you are worth the effort. — Deborah Day
A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine. — Vera Nazarian
Boost Self Confidence Quotes
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go. — Dr. Seuss
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. — Marianne Williamson
I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles. — Laurie Halse Anderson
Because you are alive, everything is possible. — Nhat Hanh
Don’t dismiss the synchronicity of what is happening right now finding its way to your life at just this moment. There are no coincidences in the universe, only convergences of Will, Intent, and Experience. — Neale Donald Walsch
Contrary to what they tell you... You are not a limited material being. — Amit Goswami
By accepting yourself and being fully what you are, your presence can make others happy. — Jane Roberts
In the Light of interbeing, peace and happiness in your daily life means peace and happiness in the world. — Nhat Hanh
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. — Dale Carnegie
Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths. — Rumi
Good Self Esteem Quotes
When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem. — Abraham Maslow
I just think it's good to be confident. If I'm not on my team why should anybody else be? — Robert Downey, Jr.
Have good trust in yourself,
not in the One that you think you should be,
but in the One that you are. — Taizan Maezumi
Self-care is never a selfish act - it is only good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others. — Parker J. Palmer
I have low self-esteem and I always have. Guys always cheated on me with women who were European-looking. You know, the long-hair type. Really beautiful women that left me thinking, 'How I can I compete with that?' Being a regular black girl wasn't good enough. — Lil' Kim
Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning. — Anthony Trollope
It's always at the back of my mind that acting might come to an end for me when Harry Potter finishes. I don't know if I'm good enough to have a long career. I've got a bit of an inferiority complex about my acting. My self-esteem is quite low in that sense. — Rupert Grint
I think imperfections are important, just as mistakes are important. You only get to be good by making mistakes, and you only get to be real by being imperfect. — Julianne Moore
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
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
Healthy Self Esteem Quotes
A positive self image and healthy self esteem is based on approval, acceptance and recognition from others; but also upon actual accomplishments, achievements and success upon the realistic self confidence which ensues. — Abraham Maslow
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. — Louise Hay
The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation. — Abraham Maslow
The most basic activism we can have in our lives is to live consciously in a nation living in fantasies. Living consciously is living with a core of healthy self-esteem. You will face reality, you will not delude yourself. — Bell Hooks
Needing to talk badly about others indicates low self esteem. That means, 'I feel so low that instead of picking myself up, I have to cut others down.' Letting go of negative things quickly is healthy. — Pope Francis
“Healthy" and “diseased," as Susan Sontag points out...are often subjective judgments that society makes for its own purposes. Women have long been defined as sick as a means of subjecting them to social control. — Naomi Wolf
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself. — Simone de Beauvoir
The most important key to the permanent enhancement of self esteem is the practice of positive inner-talk. — Denis Waitley
One of the most significant characteristics of healthy self esteem is that it is the state of one who is not at war either with himself or with others. — Nathaniel Branden
Don't workout because you think you 'need' to, do it because your body deserves love, respect and healthy attention. — Demi Lovato
Building Self Esteem Quotes
Confidence comes not from always being right but from not
fearing to be wrong. — Peter McIntyre
Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people have worries. They just don't let these feelings stop them. — T. Harv Eker
It's all about self-esteem now. Build the kids' self-esteem, make them feel good about themselves. If everybody grows up with high self-esteem, who's gonna dance in our strip-clubs? — Greg Giraldo
When you trust and act on your intuition, you increase your self-esteem, build trust in yourself and experience a profound sense of security that no relationship or amount of money will ever give you. — Cheryl Richardson
The Games are just a nice, positive way to build friendships, camaraderie and, of course, self-esteem. Plus, the Games are a great opportunity for people to participate in sports who normally wouldn't. — Greg Louganis
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. — Marianne Williamson
Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment. — Thomas Carlyle
Look the world straight in the eye. — Helen Keller
Grosvenor and Burke suggest that continually, though silently, a school building tells students who they are and how they should think about the world. It can help to manufacture rote obedience or independent activity; it can create high self-confidence or low self-esteem. — Alison Lurie
The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. — Alan Cohen
Inspiring Self Esteem Quotes
You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks. — Deepak Chopra
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. — Kahlil Gibran
Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be. — Fanny Brice
Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes. — William Gibson
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. — Maya Angelou
Don't waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions... Do your thing and don't care if they like it. — Tina Fey
I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it. — Johnny Depp
Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are. — Lady Gaga
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. — Richard Bach
Self Esteem Building Quotes
You can't build joy on a feeling of self-loathing. — Ram Dass
Bragging is often merely a ladder we build for ourselves out of words when we are afraid we are not tall enough in the eyes of the world. It is an unwitting confession to low self-esteem. — P. M. Forni
The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out. — Alan Cohen
Western parents worry a lot about their children's self-esteem. But as a parent, one of the worst things you can do for your child's self-esteem is to let them give up. On the flip side, there's nothing better for building confidence than learning you can do something you thought you couldn't. — Amy Chua
Parents who engage in this kind of [conscious] parenting understand the power of being present being mindful to take the time to build connection understanding that this foundation is the bedrock of all later self-worth, self-esteem and self-actualization. — Shefali Tsabary
Being a vegan just helps me build up my self-esteem. I feel good about it every time I eat a meal. — Steve-O
Imagination builds the image of the self, and thought then functions within its shadows. From this self-concept grows the conflict between what is and what should be, the conflict in duality. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Don?t back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for your beliefs builds self-confidence and self-esteem. — Oprah Winfrey
I don't entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I'm me. God knows, I'm me. — Elizabeth Taylor
It is time for you to make a commitment to create joy, creativity and love for yourself, only then will you benefit others, for if you do not evolve yourself, you do not serve others. By becoming a living example, by following what is in your heart, you show the way for others to follow with courage, what is in their hearts. — Barbara Marciniak
Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her. — Lao Tzu
Your self-worth is determined by you. You don't have to depend on someone to tell you who you are. — Beyonce Knowles
If Light Is In Your Heart You Will Find Your Way Home. — Rumi
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy. — Lao Tzu
Your playing small doesn't serve the world. — Marianne Williamson
Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have. — Robert Holden
Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great? — Marianne Williamson
Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you. — Osho
Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love. — Brené Brown
Your thoughts are a veil on the face of the Moon. That Moon is your heart, and those thoughts cover your heart. So let them go, just let them fall into the water. — Rumi
You wander from room to room Hunting for the diamond necklace That is already around your neck! — Rumi
I think, head up and shoulders back. Not only does it make you look taller and thinner but it gives you confidence and boosts your self-esteem. — Shelley Long
When you expand your awareness, seemingly random events will be seen to fit into a larger purpose. — Deepak Chopra
You are the guy who'll decide where to go. — Dr. Seuss
You have no control over other people's taste, so focus on staying true to your own. — Tim Gunn
Why are you knocking at every door ?
Go, knock at the door of your own heart. — Rumi
I listen with love to my body's messages. — Louise Hay
It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures. — Oprah Winfrey
There is a higher more powerful part of you. Your higher self will come through your intuition, coincidences and synchronicity of all kinds. — James Van Praagh
In your personal morality code, make it the most serious kind of sin to tell a lie to yourself. Allow nothing to be as sacred as your own word. Make this one change in your life, and your whole life will change. — Mike Hernacki
Use the Light that dwells within you to regain your natural clarity of sight. — Lao Tzu
It's very validating when you are new in the industry to get awards. It boosts your self-esteem. — Sheena Easton
Remind yourself that you are supported, that you are not going it alone upon this Earth. Dwell in the company of your Non-Physical Teachers and Guides. — Gary Zukav
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