Self Esteem Quotes - Page 19

• Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

  Ayn Rand

  Love, Selfish, Expression

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.41, Penguin

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• If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.

  John Atkinson Grimshaw

  Inspirational, Funny, Running

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• Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.

  James M. Beggs

  Life, Smile, Laughter

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• Baby girl you need to stop it, all that pride and self esteem got you angry bout this girl I'm wit in all them magazines.

  Drake

  Girl, Baby, Humble

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• No matter who you are, where you've come from, what you've been through... You can make a difference in this world.

  Demi Lovato

  Inspirational, Bad Ass, Differences

  Twitter post from Sep 28, 2013

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• There is always room in your life for thinking bigger, pushing limits and imagining the impossible.

  Tony Robbins

  Attitude, Thinking, Self Love

  Twitter post from Dec 28, 2016

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• Doubt is a virus that attacks our self-esteem, productivity and confidence. Faith that you and your life are perfectly unfolding is the strongest vaccine.

  Sean Stephenson

  Positivity, Vaccines, Doubt

  FaceBook post by Sean Stephenson from Jan 11, 2011

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• Those with a high level of confidence may have as many or more weaknesses than those with low self-esteem. The difference is this; instead of dwelling on their handicaps, they compensate for them by dwelling on their strengths.

  Alan Loy McGinnis

  Courage, Fear, Differences

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• The self-despisers are less intent on their own increase than on the diminution of others. Where self-esteem is unobtainable, envy takes the place of greed.

  Eric Hoffer

  Bullying, Envy, Greed

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• There is nothing so lowering to one's self-esteem as the affectionate contempt of a beloved cat.

  Monica Edwards

  Cat, Beloved, Affectionate

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• The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one's self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate self-awareness is honest acknowledgment of the existence of hidden emotions, motives and tendencies in the mind without immediately suppressing them.

  Bhikkhu Analayo

  Honesty, Deception, Mind

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• I am in no position to judge other women, you know. But I mean, why did she get pregnant? It's not good for women to go through the procedure of abortion and have something living sucked out of their bodies. It belittles women. Even though some women say, 'Oh, I don't mind to have one,' every time a woman has an abortion, it just crushes her self-esteem smaller and smaller and smaller.

  Dolores O'Riordan

  Crush, Mean, Judging

  You! magazine, June/July 1996.

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• If your self-esteem really does depend on how you look you're always going to be insecure. There's no way you can get around it because you are going to age. Even if you get that perfect body you're going to get older and older and older. You can't avid it. So you have to somehow, at some point, take control and sift the focus and decide who you are, what you can contribute to the world, what you do and say, is so much more important than how you look.

  Portia de Rossi

  Insecure, Avid, Perfect

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• The desire for self-esteem without integrity is like the desire for wealth without effort-a longing for the unearned.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Integrity, Effort, Desire

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• People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities.

  Bell Hooks

  Integrity, People, Healthy

  bell hooks (2003). “Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• Often our self-esteem is bruised by criticism.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Criticism, Bruised, Self

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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 Worth, Criticism

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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

  Recovery, Pride, Larger Than Life

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

  Santino Marella

  Fun, Wrestling, Jerry

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• I keep telling myself that I'm a human being, an imperfect human being who's not made to look like a doll, and that who I am as a person is more important than whether at that moment I have a nice figure.

  Emma Watson

  Inspirational, Beauty, Nice

  "10 Times Emma Watson Ruled At Life" by Ariel Nagi, www.seventeen.com. November 19, 2014.

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• Partake of some of life's sweet pleasures. And yes, get comfortable with yourself.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Sweet, Inspirational Life, Individuality

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• I always thought that people told you that you're beautiful-that this was a title that was bestowed upon you. [...] I think that it's time to take this power into our own hands and to say, "You know what? I'm beautiful. I just am. And that's my light. I'm just a beautiful woman."

  Margaret Cho

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Thinking

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 14, 2009.

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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

  Feelings, Proud, Ethics

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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

  Skinny, Too Short, Fats

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