Esteem Quotes - Page 8

• Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Positive, Strength

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• Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

  M. Scott Peck

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.

  Thomas Szasz

  Positive, Education, Children

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (2004). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.40, Transaction Publishers

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• Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

  George Washington

  Military, War, 4th Of July

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.24, Rowman & Littlefield

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  Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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• It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life,it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Self Worth

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• You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Love Yourself

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• Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it.

  Thaddeus Golas

  Self Esteem, Love You, Caring

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• Self-esteem is as necessary to the spirit as food is to the body.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Self Esteem, Love Yourself, Loving Yourself

  Maxwell Maltz (2002). “New Psycho-Cybernetics”, p.170, Penguin

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• I think self-esteem comes from work.

  Anthony Scaramucci

  Self Esteem, Thinking, Self

  Source: gawker.com

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• People who believe that they are going to be excommunicated and shamed, or whatever other dark things may happen to them, are much less likely to enter open, loving relationships. And they are also much less likely to have the self-esteem that is required to be monogamous and loving. And in consequence, they are much less likely to create families.

  Andrew Solomon

  Self Esteem, Believe, Dark

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• My self-esteem had been crushed through years of childhood bullying and serious abuses, which would take me decades to overcome.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Bullying, Self Esteem, Years

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• The earliest issue I can remember going through was body image issues. I was a chubby little kid and I got made fun of for it. I dealt with horrible, horrible self esteem issues, and I still struggle with that. I think it's what taught me a lot of empathy and compassion, though, but there are those days where I look in the mirror and I still see twelve year old fat Sara.

  Sara Bareilles

  Fun, Self Esteem, Struggle

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 4, 2013.

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• Parents who engage in this kind of [conscious] parenting understand the power of being present being mindful to take the time to build connection understanding that this foundation is the bedrock of all later self-worth, self-esteem and self-actualization.

  Shefali Tsabary

  Self Esteem, Self Worth, Parent

  Source: www.chicagonow.com

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• When we prioritize and focus... and that becomes the anchor... the relationship becomes the anchor... and it trumphs everything else... than it's at once freeing and anxiety relieving... because the connection itself feeds empowerment and self-worth and self-esteem so it takes away the anxiety of raising a child.

  Shefali Tsabary

  Children, Self Esteem, Self Worth

  "Evolving From Control to Connection Parenting". Interview with Allison Sutter, www.chicagonow.com. October 13, 2015.

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• I get literally a physical sensation of low self-esteem that is a result of not engaging the world and getting comfortable that way.

  Judd Apatow

  Self Esteem, World, Way

  Interiew with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 1, 2011.

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• Praise & esteem can feel good, which is fine, but don't look to them for inner peace & lasting happiness.

  Allan Lokos

  Lasting Happiness, Meditation, Feel Good

  Allan Lokos (2012). “Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living”, p.144, Penguin

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• For real self esteem is not derived from the great things you've done, the things you won. The mark you've made - but an appreciation of yourself for what you are.

  Maxwell Perkins

  Appreciation, Real, Self Esteem

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• Sometimes we praise the way things used to be in order to blame the present, and we esteem what is no longer in order to scorn what is.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Order, Way, Blame

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• Kids, everybody can get behind. It's a bipartisan thing. We care about our kids' health. But the truth is, it's very important for us to talk to parents, in particular mothers, because it's really our self-esteem, it's our initiative.

  Michelle Obama

  Mother, Self Esteem, Kids

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• For our children, you want them to build their own self-esteem and their own self-confidence. For your own child. You don't want it to come from somebody else because, if it does, that same person can take it away. You want them to learn the grind.

  John Calipari

  Children, Self Esteem, Self Confidence

  Source: sports.usatoday.com

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• In the United States, rising esteem for the military in uniform corresponds to the growing militarization of the society as a whole. All of this despite repeated revelations of the illegality and immorality of the military's own incarceration systems, from Guantanamo to Abu Ghraib, whose systematic practices border on if not actually constitute torture.

  Michael Hardt

  Military, Practice, United States

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If you go to any nunnery and ask them what the main obstacle is, they'll always say low self-esteem and lack of confidence. It will take time. But the difference between the first girls from Ladakh who became nuns, to the girls we have now, is very encouraging.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Girl, Self Esteem, Differences

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• Perhaps one of the main antidotes to depression, lack of self-esteem, loneliness and so forth is the recognition that we really do have Buddha nature. All the other problems like anger, jealousy, ambitions, are merely habitual patterns that we've learned, but aren't inherent to who we are.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Loneliness, Self Esteem, Ambition

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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