Nathaniel Branden Quotes About Achievement

Quotes about: Achievement

• Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Self Esteem, Expression, Accomplishment

• The greatest barrier to achievement and success is not lack of talent or ability but rather the feeling that achievement and success, above a certain level, are outside our self-concept-our image of who we are and what is appropriate to us.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Self, Achievement, Feelings

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

• If we do have realistic confidence in our mind and value, if we feel secure within ourselves, we tend to experience the world as open to us and to respond appropriately to challenges and opportunities.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Confidence, Self Esteem, Pride

  "Power of Self Esteem".

• Stressing the practice of living purposefully as essential to fully realized self-esteem is not equivalent to measuring an individual's worth by his or her external achievements. We admire achievements-in ourselves and others-and it is natural and appropriate for us to do so. But that is not the same thing as saying that our achievements are the measure or grounds of our self-esteem. The root of our self-esteem is not our achievements but those internally generated practices that, among other things, make it possible for us to achieve.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Self Esteem, Stress, Practice

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

• To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Life, Self Esteem, Opposites

  Nathaniel Branden (2001). “The Psychology of Self-Esteem: A Revolutionary Approach to Self-Understanding that Launched a New Era in Modern Psychology”, Jossey-Bass

• It's not that achievements prove our worth but rather that the process of achieving is the means by which we develop our effectiveness, our competence at living.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Mean, Effectiveness, Achievement

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