Esteem Quotes - Page 19

• This, perhaps, goes to show that conditional self-esteem, as I have said for many years, is an insidious, real sickness, so much so that even Buddhists carelessly sneak it in and sometimes encourage their clients to achieve it.

  Albert Ellis

  Buddhist, Real, Self Esteem

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• The societal pursuit of high self-esteem for everyone may literally end up doing considerable harm.

  Roy Baumeister

  Self Esteem, May, Ends

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• Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Self Esteem, Perfection, Doe

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• What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.

  Seneca the Younger

  Self Esteem, Thinking, Attachment

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• What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate - and immediately forget we have done so.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Self Esteem, Done

  "Beyond Good and Evil" by Friedrich Nietzsche, (Aphorism 138), 1886.

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• One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hate, Self Esteem, Pride

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1973). “Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future”, Penguin Classics

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• You never exist quite so much as when you are not thinking

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Self Esteem, Thinking

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• When one has an image about oneself one is surely insane, one lives in a world of illusion.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Self Esteem, Insane, World

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1973). “Flight of the Eagle”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• We all place ourselves at various levels, and we are constantly falling from these heights. It is the falls we are ashamed of. Self-esteem is the cause of our shame, of our fall. It is this self-esteem that must be understood, and not the fall.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Self Esteem, Fall, Levels

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living 2”, p.168, M-y books ltd

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• 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

  Self Esteem, Imagination, Shadow

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living”, p.230, M-y books ltd

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• And it is impossible to treat human beings as human beings if you label them, if you term them, if you give them a name as Hindus, Russians, or what you will. It is so much easier to label people, for then you can pass by and kick them, drop a bomb on India or Japan.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Self Esteem, Japan, Names

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• But inwardly we are as corrupt as the person who sits in an office and plans war-because, we want to be somebody in the family, in a group, in society, in the nation.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  War, Self Esteem, Office

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti: 1948-1949 : Choiceless awareness”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

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• After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Self Esteem, Ego, Desire

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• These 'philosophers', etc., seem unaware, to give a specific example, that by teaching and preaching 'identity', which is empirically non-existent in this actual world, they are neurologically training future generations in the pathological identifications found in the 'mentally' ill or maladjusted.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Self Esteem, Teaching, Giving

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• Riches I need not, nor man's empty praise.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Self Esteem, Men, Needs

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• Titles are like a magicians wand which circumscribe human facility and prevent us from living the lives of man.

  Thomas Paine

  Self Esteem, Men, Titles

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• Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and respect of self, in turn, is the chief element in courage.

  Thucydides

  Self Esteem, Self Respect, Self Control

  "History of the Peloponnesian War".

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• Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours.

  Epictetus

  Self Esteem, Attachment, Detachment

  Epictetus (2013). “The Enchiridion of Epictetus”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Perseverance, Teacher, Appreciation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1963). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.169, Harvard University Press

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• There is nothing in life so difficult that it cannot be overcome. This faith can move mountains. It can change people. It can change the world. You can survive all the great storms in your life

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Perseverance, Self Esteem, Moving

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• Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits

  Robert Breault

  Perseverance, Stay Strong, Self Esteem

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• When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Only when one is connected to one's own core is.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Loneliness And Solitude

  "Wisdom from Gift from the Sea".

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• Measure yourself by your best moments, not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression.

  Robert A. Johnson

  Inspirational, Depression, Self Esteem

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• Don't be afraid of your own strength.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Belief

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• Remember: You're not alone.

  Judith Warner

  Self Esteem, Remember You, Remembers You

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