Esteem Quotes - Page 25

• Often our self-esteem is bruised by criticism.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Self Esteem, Criticism, Bruised

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• Criticism is a destroyer of self-worth and esteem. It is heartbreaking how criticism can wound children and diminish their self-esteem.

  H. Burke Peterson

  Children, Self Esteem, Self Worth

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• It's been said that alcoholics are egomaniacs with low self -esteem. It's the prefect description. Being larger than life and yet your pride is crushed with self- loathing.

  Gary Oldman

  Self Esteem, Recovery, Pride

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• I'm Jerry Lawler, I make fun of women because I have no self-esteem.

  Santino Marella

  Fun, Self Esteem, Wrestling

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• 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

  Self Esteem, Feelings, Proud

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• Think highly of yourself because the world takes you at your own estimate.

  Kurt Hahn

  Self Esteem, Self Worth, Thinking

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• I share the same advice that my mom gave me - stay hydrated and sleep well. And that being a beautiful person on the inside is what really matters.

  Jessica Alba

  Beautiful, Confidence, Mom

  "Salma Hayek Featured On Glam Belleza Latina, Jessica Alba Discusses Beauty And Latina Icons". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2013.

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• We're always too skinny, or too fat. Too tall, or too short. We're shaming each other, and we're shaming ourselves, and it sucks.

  Emma Stone

  Self Esteem, Skinny, Too Short

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• I like eating fine foods and drinking nice wine. Even if I had a really good figure, I don't think I'd get my t**s and a** out for no one.

  Adele

  Nice, Self Esteem, Drinking

  "Adele Opens Up About Her Inspirations, Looks and Stage Fright". Interview with Touré, www.rollingstone.com. April 28, 2011.

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• I'd lose weight if I was an actress and had to play a role where you're supposed to be 40 lbs lighter, but weight has nothing to do with my career. Even when I was signing a contract, most of the industry knew if anyone ever dared say lose weight to me, they wouldn't be working with me.

  Adele

  Self Esteem, Play, Careers

  "Karl Lagerfeld Apologizes To Adele After Calling Her 'too Fat'". www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 09, 2012.

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• So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.

  Francois Rabelais

  Men, Developmental

  Francois Rabelais “Gargantua and Pantagruel: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel”, Library of Alexandria

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• Our sexuality is fundamental to who we are, surely the crux of this debate is whether or not we accord equal right and respect and esteem to people regardless of their sexuality.

  Sarah Wollaston

  Gay, People, Fundamentals

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• It may be unpopular and out-of-date to say-but I do not think that a scientific result which gives us a better understanding of the world and makes it more harmonious in our eyes should be held in lower esteem than, say, an invention which reduces the cost of paving roads, or improves household plumbing.

  Alfred Tarski

  Eye, Science, Thinking

  Alfred Tarski (1986). “Alfred Tarski, Collected Papers: 1935-1944”, Birkhauser

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• Self-esteem is the prize awarded by you to you for playing by your own rules - in which case, you'd think it would be easier to come by.

  Terry Rossio

  Self Esteem, Thinking, Would Be

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• In the ranks of the movement [National Socialist movement], the most devout Protestant could sit beside the most devout Catholic, without coming into the slightest conflict with his religious convictions. The mighty common struggle which both carried on against the destroyer of Aryan humanity had, on the contrary, taught them mutually to respect and esteem one another.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Struggle, Catholic

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Black people are the magical faces at the bottom of society's well. Even the poorest whites, those who must live their lives only a few levels above, gain their self-esteem by gazing down on us. Surely, they must know that their deliverance depends on letting down their ropes. Only by working together is escape possible. Over time, many reach out, but most simply watch, mesmerized into maintaining their unspoken commitment to keeping us where we are, at whatever cost to them or to us (Bell).

  Derrick Bell

  Life, Change, Self Esteem

  Derrick Bell (2008). “Faces At The Bottom Of The Well: The Permanence Of Racism”, p.5, Basic Books

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• I shall rejoin myself to my native country, with new attachments, and with exaggerated esteem for its advantages; for though there is less wealth there, there is more freedom, more ease, and less misery.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Attachment, America

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs Corespondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson Late, President of the United States: Now First Published the Original Manuscripts”, p.312

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• Who are to be the objects of popular choice? Every citizen whose merit may recommend him to the esteem and confidence of his country.

  James Madison

  Country, Choices, Citizens

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.263

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• I found the sections on aging, relationships, and procrastinating especially helpful. I really found the tips and suggestions very helpful, inspiring, positive, and motivating. Yes, I would definitely recommend it.

  Karen Lewis

  Self Esteem, Suggestions, Helpful

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• The Universe is responding to who you FEEL you are.

  Esther Hicks

  Self Esteem, Law Of Attraction, Responding

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• If you were listening to the hypnotic voice of your Source, you'd be constantly hearing the drum beating that says, 'You are loved, and you are worthy, and you are valued and life is supposed to be good for you. You are worthy, you are valued, you are loved and life is supposed to be good for you.'

  Esther Hicks

  Self Esteem, Voice, Listening

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• You, being yourself, help others be themselves. Because you recognize your own uniqueness you will not need to dominate others, nor cringe before them.

  Jane Roberts

  Being Yourself, Self Esteem, Helping Others

  Jane Roberts (2011). “The Nature of Personal Reality (A Seth Book): Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know”, p.538, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• When you offer a vibration, the Universal forces are working in concert with each other in order to satisfy you. You really are the center of the Universe.

  Esther Hicks

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Work

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• You are not here to prove worthiness. You are here to extend the creation, creator, creating that you are.

  Esther Hicks

  Self Esteem, Creating, Creation

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• I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.

  Walt Whitman

  Self Esteem, Leaves Of Grass, Goodness

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.229, NYU Press

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