Esteem Quotes - Page 27

• The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams from generation to generation. We all bear the cost of keeping it running. Illiteracy is its linchpin.

  Carl Sagan

  Running, Dream, Self Esteem

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.464, Ballantine Books

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• And I can't even go to the grocery store without some ones that's clean and a shirt with a team/It seems we living the American dream but people highest up got the lowest self esteem/The prettiest people do the ugliest things for the road to riches and diamond rings.

  Kanye West

  Dream, Self Esteem, Team

  Song: Self Conscious

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• You can't compare an apple to an orange. It will cause a lot of self esteem issues.

  Craig Sheffer

  Self Esteem, Apples, Orange

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks you're any good.

  Dorianne Laux

  Self Esteem, Thinking, Editors

  Kim Addonizio, Dorianne Laux (2010). “The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry”, p.196, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Love is something you and I must have. We must have it because our spirit feeds upon it. We must have it because without it we become weak and faint. Without love our self-esteem weakens. Without it our courage fails. Without love we can no longer look out confidently at the world.

  Chief Dan George

  Self Esteem, Love Is, Looks

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• Persecutors fear loss of control. Rescuers fear loss of purpose. Rescuers need Victims-someone to protect or fix-to bolster their self-esteem.

  David Emerald Womeldorff

  Fear, Self Esteem, Loss

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• Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity, my constancy, and my plain dealing; 'Tis all I have to recommend me to the esteem either of others or myself.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Beauty, Genius, Mediocrity

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.144

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• Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Animal, Numbers

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.4489, e-artnow

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• There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors. But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.

  Claude Adrien Helvetius

  Love, Strong, Men

  "De l'esprit or, Essays on the Mind, and Its Several Faculties". Book by Claude Adrien Helvétius, 1758.

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• Parents and children seldom act in concert:
  each child endeavors to appropriate
  the esteem or fondness of the parents,
  and the parents, with yet less temptation,
  betray each other to their children.

  Samuel Johnson

  Children, Parent, Temptation

  Samuel Johnson (1809). “Rasselas: A Tale”, p.78

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• 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

  Pain, Self Esteem, Stress

  Abraham Harold Maslow (1999). “Toward a psychology of being”, Wiley

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• It had been happy for me if I could have lived a private life in peace and plenty, enjoying all the happiness that results from a well-tempered society founded on mutual esteem. But the injury done my country, and the chains of slavery forging for all posterity, calls me forth to defend our common rights, and repel the bold invaders of the sons of freedom.

  Nathanael Greene

  Country, Son, Rights

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• I didn't have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager, as I think most teen-agers don't.

  Alanis Morissette

  Self Esteem, Thinking, Self

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• People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-esteem, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Motivation, Self Esteem, Learning

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• If we esteem them too highly, good works can become the greatest idolatry.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Good Work, Idolatry

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• I have had the experience common to many women, of needing to define myself and to find my self-esteem as a person, not simply as somebody's wife or mother.

  Hazel Hawke

  Mother, Women, Self Esteem

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• Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.

  Chris Evert

  Self Esteem, Personality, Fame

  "A Separate Peace" by Steve Friedman, www.elle.com. August 17, 2011.

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• Friends broaden our horizons. They serve as new models with whom we can identify. They allow us to be ourselves-and accept us that way. They enhance our self-esteem because they think we're okay, because we matter to them. And because they matter to us-for various reasons, at various levels of intensity-they enrich the quality of our emotional life.

  Judith Viorst

  Friendship, Self Esteem, Emotional

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• Your mental diet largely determines your character and your personality and almost everything that happens to you in life. When you feed your mind with positive affirmations, information, books, conversations, audio programs, and thoughts, you develop a more positive attitude and personality. You become more influential and persuasive. You enjoy greater confidence and self-esteem.

  Brian Tracy

  Motivational, Attitude, Self Esteem

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Dec 14, 2013

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• The players have no real self-esteem when it comes to putting the best image out there in a real competitive fashion.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Fashion, Real

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• Envy, my children, follows pride; whoever is envious is proud. See, envy comes to us from Hell; the devils having sinned through pride, sinned also through envy, envying our glory, our happiness. Why do we envy the happiness and the goods of others? Because we are proud; we should like to be the sole possessors of talents, riches, of the esteem and love of all the world! We hate our equals, because they are our equals; our inferiors, from the fear that they may equal us; our superiors, because they are above us.

  John Vianney

  Children, Hate, Pride

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• I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and will do so until the end of my days. Even although I now happen to be tried by one, whose opinion I hold in high esteem, I detest most violently the set-up that surrounds me here. It makes me feel that I am a Black man in a White man's court. This should not be I should feel perfectly at ease and at home with the assurance that I am being tried by a fellow South African, who does not regard me as an inferior, entitled to a special type of justice.

  Nelson Mandela

  Hate, Home, Fighting

  Nelson Mandela (1963*). “We Accuse: The Trial of Nelson Mandela”

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• Identification makes general sanity and complete adjustment impossible. Training in non-identity plays a therapeutic role with adults.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Self Esteem, Play, Training

  Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.91, Institute of GS

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• I wonder why it is that we so often imprison ourselves in the opinions of other people. There can be no punishment worse than conspiring in our own diminishment.

  Dawna Markova

  Self Esteem, Punishment, People

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• There's a treasury full of jade and jewels; It is in you. Don't go searching far from home for it-it's here.

  Gautama Buddha

  Self Esteem, Home, Jewels

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