Self Esteem Quotes - Page 23

• Just trying to do something - just being there, showing up - is how we get braver. Self-esteem is about doing.

  Joy Browne

  Inspirational, Women, Empowering

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• There are too many books. The books are terrible. And this is because you have been taught to have self-esteem.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Book, Taught, Terrible

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• Self-esteem is an inner feeling: Sometimes it corresponds with outer reality, and sometimes it doesn’t.

  Stanley Greenspan

  Reality, Feelings, Sometimes

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• Fear of punishment diminishes self-esteem and goodwill.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Punishment, Goodwill

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• What is greatness? I will answer: it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose, self-esteem.

  Ayn Rand

  Greatness, Three, Purpose

  Playboy Interview, March, 1964.

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• I feel that adolescence has served its purpose when a person arrives at adulthood with a strong sense of self-esteem, the ability to relate intimately, to communicate congruently, to take responsibility, and to take risks. The end of adolescence is the beginning of adulthood. What hasn't been finished then will have to be finished later.

  Virginia Satir

  Strong, Responsibility, Risk

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• People with high but unstable self-esteem exhibit the greatest hostility.

  Roy Baumeister

  People, Unstable, Exhibits

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• Violence appears to be most commonly a result of threatened egotism -- that is, highly favorable views of self that are disputed by some person or circumstance. ... violence is perpetrated by a small subset of people with favorable views of themselves. ... Viewed in this light, the societal pursuit of high self-esteem for everyone may literally end up doing considerable harm.

  Roy Baumeister

  Light, Views, People

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• To love yourself, truly love yourself, is to finally discover the essence of personal courage, self-respect, integrity, and self-esteem. These are the qualities of grace that come directly from a soul with stamina.

  Caroline Myss

  Integrity, Love You, Essence

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• I firmly believe that intuitive or symbolic sight is not a gift but a skill -
  a skill based in self-esteem.

  Caroline Myss

  Believe, Sight, Skills

  Caroline Myss (2013). “Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing”, p.33, Harmony

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• Intuition is natural by-product of flowering of a mature self-esteem and a sense of empowerment – not power over, but power to be

  Caroline Myss

  Empowerment, Intuition, Mature

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  Self esteem comes from achievements. Not from lax standards and false praise.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Achievement, Black, Politics

  Address at the Republican National Convention, delivered 29 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtue, not vices. It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.

  Alan Greenspan

  Integrity, Mean, Men

  "Word for Word/'Greenspan Shrugged'; When Greed Was a Virtue And Regulation the Enemy" by Bill Goldstein, www.nytimes.com. July 21, 2002.

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• Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce

  Gavin Newsom

  Art, Kids, Skills

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• I have never understood the importance of having children memorize battle dates. It seems like such a waste of mental energy. Instead, we could teach them important subjects such as How the Mind Works, How to Handle Finances, How to Invest Money for Financial Security, How to be a Parent, How to Create Good Relationships, and How to Create and Maintain Self-Esteem and Self-Worth. Can you imagine what a whole generation of adults would be like if they had been taught these subjects in school along with their regular curriculum?

  Louise Hay

  Children, School, Self Worth

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• Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up.

  Jack Canfield

  Self Respect, Produce, Greater

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• Self-esteem is felt even though you may not have done anything yet, but just feel the capability for it.

  Denis Waitley

  Done, May, Feels

  Denis Waitley (1986). “The Winner's Edge: The Critical Attitude of Success”, Berkley

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• The impact of organizational health goes far beyond the walls of a company, extending to customers and vendors, even to spouses and children. It sends people to work in the morning with clarity, hope, and anticipation and brings them home at night with a greater sense of accomplishment, contribution, and self-esteem. The impact of this is as important as it is impossible to measure.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Morning, Children, Wall

  Patrick Lencioni (2012). “The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business”, p.193, John Wiley & Sons

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• Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better? Why hide deficiencies instead of overcoming them? Why look for friends or partners who will just shore up your self-esteem instead of ones who will also challenge you to grow? And why seek out the tried and true, instead of experiences that will stretch you? The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it’s not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset. This is the mindset that allows people to thrive during some of the most challenging times in their lives.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Passion, People, Challenges

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• Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Motivation

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.

  Bette Midler

  Hard Work, People, Self Respect

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• Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Powerful, Self Respect, Requirements

  Nathaniel Branden (1992). “Power of Self Esteem”

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• By creating so many illusory images of physical perfection, whether on store aisles or storefronts ads, magazine covers or TV show, we speak more to the profit margins of companies than the self-esteem of today's girls.

  Adora Svitak

  Girl, Tv Shows, Creating

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• I just think that whole culture of hatred, and also feeling like it's your right to judge people when you don't know them, is really f***ed up. So I'm pleased I experienced that side of it, so I can learn to be a better person on the other side of it. I'm sure in the past I've been judgmental too ... Self esteem, that's something you've got to work on yourself. I know for me it's different day to day.

  Alexa Chung

  Past, Thinking, People

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• What I’d like to teach my daughter about self-image and self-esteem is that you’re beautiful on the inside and the outside, and not to get obsessed with pictures that are out there in magazines of skinny models.  I had an eating disorder in college and wanted to look like those models and be thin.  So I’ll probably share that experience with her and let her know that you’re beautiful just the way you are.

  Dara Torres

  Beautiful, Daughter, College

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