Nathaniel Branden Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

• There is no value-judgment more important to a man--no factor more decisive in his psychological development and motivation--than the estimate he passes on himself.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Confidence, Motivation, Men

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

• Integrity is the integration of ideals, convictions, standards, beliefs-and behavior. When our behavior is congruent with our professed values, when ideals and practice match up, we have integrity.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Integrity, Practice, Belief

• To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self-assertion, self-expression and a celebration of being alive.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Love Is, Self, Expression

• The feeling that "I am enough" does not mean that I have nothing to learn, nothing further to achieve, and nowhere to grow to. It means that I accept myself, that I am not on trial in my own eyes, that I value and respect myself. This is not an act of indulgence but of courage.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Mean, Eye, Self

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

• Romantic love is a passionate spiritual-emotional-sexual attachment between a man and a woman that reflects a high regard for the value of each other's person.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Love, Spiritual, Men

  Nathaniel Branden, E. Devers Branden (1982). “The romantic love question & answer book”, J P Tarcher

• The practice of assertiveness: being authentic in our dealings with others; treating our values and persons with decent respect in social contexts; refusing to fake the reality of who we are or what we esteem in order to avoid disapproval; the willingness to stand up for ourselves and our ideas in appropriate ways in appropriate contexts.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Reality, Order, Practice

  Nathaniel Branden (1999). “The Art of Living Consciously: The Power of Awareness to Transform Everyday Life”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

• Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Struggle, Reason And Emotion, Ideas

• In the nature of our existence, we must act to achieve values. And in order to act appropriately, we need to value the beneficiary of our actions. In order to seek values, we must consider ourselves worthy of enjoying them. In order to fight for our happiness, we must consider ourselves worthy of happiness.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Fighting, Order, Needs

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

• Out of fear, out of the desire for approval, out of the misguided notions of duty, people surrender themselves-their convictions and their aspirations-every day. There is nothing noble about it. It takes far more courage to fight for your values than to relinquish them.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Fighting, People, Desire

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

• What a great teacher, a great parent, a great psychotherapist and a great coach have in common is a deep belief in the potential of the person with whom they are concerned. They relate to the person from their vision of his or her worth and value.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Teacher, Parent, Vision

• To accept struggle as part of life, to accept all of it, even the darkest moments of anguish; to be motivated by love rather than fear, by confidence rather than insecurity: these are the benchmarks of high self-esteem. The wish to avoid fear and pain is not the motive that drives the lives of highly evolved men and women; rather, it is the life force within them, thrusting toward its unique form of expression-the actualization of personal values.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Pain, Self Esteem, Struggle

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

• In a world in which we are exposed to more information, more options, more philosophies, more perspectives than ever before, in which we must choose the values by which we will live (rather than unquestioningly follow some tradition for no better reason than that our own parents did), we need to be willing to stand on our own judgment and trust our own intelligence-to look at the world through our own eyes-to chart our course and think through how to achieve the future we want, to commit ourselves to continuous questioning and learning-to be, in a word, self-responsible.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Philosophy, Eye, Thinking

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

• The policy of seeking values from human beings by means of force, when practiced by an individual, is called crime. When practiced by a government, it is called statism.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Mean, Government, Individualism

  Nathaniel Branden (2011). “Honoring the Self: The Pyschology of Confidence and Respect”, p.228, Bantam

• To live consciously means to seek to be aware of everything that bears on our actions, purposes, values, and goals—to the best of our ability, whatever that ability may be—and to behave in accordance with that which we see and know.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Mean, Goal, Purpose

  Nathaniel Branden (1999). “The Art of Living Consciously: The Power of Awareness to Transform Everyday Life”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

• If we attach more importance to what other people believe than to what we know to be true - if we value belonging over being - we will not attain authenticity.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Believe, People, Authenticity

  Nathaniel Branden (2011). “How to Raise Your Self-Esteem: The Proven Action-Oriented Approach to Greater Self-Respect and Self-Confidence”, p.125, Bantam

• Living consciously is seeking to be aware of everything that bears on our interests, actions, values, purposes, and goals. It is the willingness to confront facts, pleasant or unpleasant. It is the desire to discover our mistakes and correct them . . . it is the quest to keep expanding our awareness and understanding, both of the world external to self and the world within.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Mistake, Self, Goal

  Nathaniel Branden (1999). “The Art of Living Consciously: The Power of Awareness to Transform Everyday Life”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

• It is easy enough to say, Be true to your values. But what if your values are irrational? Or what if the virtues you have committed yourself to are so much against human nature that they cannot be practiced consistently? Be careful of what you accept as your code of morality. Think carefully about whether its tenets serve your life and well being. Exercise critical judgment. Realize how much is at stake-your life, your happiness, your self-esteem.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Self Esteem, Exercise, Thinking

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