Esteem Quotes - Page 29

• You your own best thing, Sethe. You are.

  Toni Morrison

  Self Esteem, Best Things

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• True beauty radiates not from outer cosmetics, but from the simple joy of making a difference for those that need your voice, passion, and time without expecting or wanting anything in return.

  Deborah Barnes

  Self Esteem, Passion, Simple

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• Elizabeth scowled, feeling like a nobody, a nothing. She felt like her entire self had been made worthless. She could change her interests, but she couldn't change her looks. She'd never be six feet tall. She'd never look like a supermodel.

  Francine Pascal

  Self Esteem, Feet, Feelings

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• Respect is a kind of magic too, you know.

  Jefferson Smith

  Self Esteem, Magic, Kind

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• People settle for so much less because they find their identities in the world's fickle and untrue opinions. God made you royal with His blood. Live.

  Lacey Mosley

  Self Esteem, Blood, People

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• At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition

  Naomi Wolf

  Self Esteem, Body, Aging

  Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage

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• Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken.

  Naomi Wolf

  Powerful, Self Esteem, Broken

  Naomi Wolf (2009). “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth redefined it as the attainment of virtuous beauty. It did so to substitute both a new consumer imperative and a new justification for economic unfairness in the workplace where the old ones had lost their hold over newly liberated women.

  Naomi Wolf

  Self Esteem, Social Values, Workplace

  Naomi Wolf (2013). “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women”, p.18, Random House

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• Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn angrily upon this aspect of the beauty myth.

  Naomi Wolf

  Self Esteem, Names, Iron

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• The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the heads of rising women, for them to emulate.

  Naomi Wolf

  Self Esteem, Stronger, Rising

  Naomi Wolf (2009). “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• People will ask you the question 'how is life treating you?' But my question is 'how are you treating life?' On that your happiness rests

  Rasheed Ogunlaru

  Self Esteem, People, Asks

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• Surely a good therapist should produce a Dorian Gray-style portrait from under the couch so the patient can see the person they really are.

  Rosamund Lupton

  Self Esteem, Style, Portraits

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• How far can you go in life if you don't love yourself?

  Shaun King

  Self Esteem, Love You, Ifs

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• What editors are obliged to appear to say that

  Naomi Wolf

  Self Esteem, Editors, Obliged

  Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage

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• Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

  St. Jerome

  Self Esteem, Catholic

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• Perhaps the most extraordinary popular delusion about violence of the past quarter-century is that it is caused by low self-esteem. That theory has been endorsed by dozens of prominent experts, has inspired school programs designed to get kids to feel better about themselves, and in the late 1980s led the California legislature to form a Task Force to Promote Self-Esteem. Yet Baumeister has shown that the theory could not be more spectacularly, hilariously, achingly wrong. Violence is a problem not of too little self-esteem but of too much, particularly when it is unearned.

  Steven Pinker

  Self Esteem, School, Kids

  Steven Pinker (2011). “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined”, p.560, Penguin

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• Be the winner in your life!

  Tae Yun Kim

  Self Esteem, Winner

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• When you express "purity" which is the truth about yourself, you feel a love for yourself that is expressed by self-respect, self-esteem, and self-confidence!

  Tae Yun Kim

  Self Esteem, Self Confidence, Self Respect

  Dr. Tae Yun Kim (2011). “Seven Steps to Inner Power”, p.43, Jung SuWon

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• It's probably unfair to expect the world at large, or even most people, to see us for all we are. It is essential, however, that we see ourselves for all we are.

  Victoria Moran

  Self Esteem, People, Essentials

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• Only those few who are able to surpass their fear of death completely can fully experience the highest forms of life; not the mundane life of the mortal, but the godly life of the resurrected.

  Zeena Schreck

  Self Esteem, Godly, Mundane Life

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• You are the most influential person you will talk to all day.

  Zig Ziglar

  Self Esteem, Influential Person, Persons

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• If we can find forgiveness in our hearts for those who have caused us hurt and injury, we will rise to a higher level of self-esteem and well-being.

  James E. Faust

  Hurt, Self Esteem, Heart

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• The Black family of the future will foster our liberation, enhance our self-esteem, and shape our ideas and goals.

  Dorothy Height

  Self Esteem, Ideas, Goal

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• The painting is always done very much with [the model's] co-operation. The problem with painting a nude, of course, is that it deepens the transaction. You can scrap a painting of someone's face and it imperils the sitter's self-esteem less than scrapping a painting of the whole naked body.

  Lucian Freud

  Self Esteem, Body, Faces

  Lucian Freud, Rolf Lauter, Jean Christophe Ammann, Craig Hartley, Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (2001). “Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre”, Hatje Cantz Publishers

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• If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem. Instead we reflect on them deeply, trying to figure out what went wrong and discern whether there are any patterns to our mistakes.

  Robert Greene

  Mistake, Self Esteem, Trying

  Robert Greene (2014). “The Concise Mastery”, p.118, Profile Books

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