Self Esteem Quotes - Page 24

• If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.

  Harry Stack Sullivan

  Unfortunate, Standing, Pulling

  Harry Stack Sullivan (2003). “The Interpersonal Theory of Psychiatry”, p.242, Psychology Press

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• I like storytelling. We all have an active thing that we do that gives us self-esteem, that makes us proud; it's necessary. I have to tell stories because that's the way the wiring went in.

  Paul Zindel

  Giving, Stories, Proud

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• We all know that girls who compete in sports perform better in school, are physically healthier and have a stronger self-esteem.

  Louise Slaughter

  Girl, Sports, School

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• Since the State thrives on what it expropriates, the general decline in production that it induces by its avarice foretells its own doom. Its source of income dries up. Thus, in pulling Society down it pulls itself down. Its ultimate collapse is usually occasioned by a disastrous war, but preceding that event is a history of increasing and discouraging levies on the marketplace, causing a decline in the aspirations, hopes, and self-esteem of its victims.

  Frank Chodorov

  War, Events, Income

  Frank Chodorov (2007). “Rise and Fall of Society”, p.150, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Perhaps self-esteem is just the sum of self-love and self-confidence. People with high self-esteem know they deserve a good life and that they can get almost everything they focus on!

  Mika

  Good Life, Self Confidence, People

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• Basically, it is your self-esteem that shapes the choice of your job, female, friends, and how you take care of yourself (health/hygiene/hobby's)!

  Mika

  Jobs, Hygiene, Choices

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• So many comics have such low self-esteem.

  Debra Wilson

  Lows, Self, Low Self Esteem

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• When I was a teenager, my self esteem was really low. But when I stood next to Yunho and his crooked teeth, I felt better.

  Jaejoong

  Teenager, Teeth, Next

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• Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Life, Dwarves, Giants

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• I was a painfully shy, awkward kid, with low self-esteem and almost no social skills. Online, I didn't have a problem talking to people or making friends. But in the real world. interacting with other people - especially kids my own age - made me a nervous wreck. I never knew how to act or what to say, and when I did work up the courage to speak, I always seemed to say the wrong thing.

  Ernest Cline

  Real, Kids, Talking

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• If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

  Paul Eldridge

  Trials, Crime, Gallows

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• We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposes to rob us of their companionship. It is obviously not the ideas themselves that are dear to us, but our self-esteem, which is threatened.

  James Harvey Robinson

  Passion, Ideas, Atheism

  James Harvey Robinson (2015). “The Mind in Making”, p.26, Read Books Ltd

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• You marry at the level of your self-esteem, make sure you have self worth.

  Marie Osmond

  Self Worth, Levels, Self

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• There is nothing I need so much as nourishment for my Self Esteem

  Alfred Lunt

  Needs, Nourishment, Self

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• The idols of today are unmistakable -
  self-esteem without achievement,
  sex without consequences,
  wealth without responsibility,
  pleasure without struggle and
  experience without commitment.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Sex, Struggle, Commitment

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• Good! Hang in there! It's normal! [Low self-esteem] Often it's a sign of intelligence (but don't let that go to your head haha)

  Patrick Stump

  Haha, Normal, Lows

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• To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Life, Opposites, Achievement

  Nathaniel Branden (2001). “The Psychology of Self-Esteem: A Revolutionary Approach to Self-Understanding that Launched a New Era in Modern Psychology”, Jossey-Bass

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• The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Ideas, Patterns, Worship

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1968). “Commentaries on Living: From the Notebooks of J. Krishnamurti”

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• Identity is invariably false to facts.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Identity, Facts, Semantics

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• Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Thinking, Long, Feelings

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• Of all the traps and pitfalls in life, self-disesteem is the deadliest, and the hardest to overcome: for it is a pit designed and dug by our own hands, summed up in the phrase, 'It's no use - I can't do it.'

  Maxwell Maltz

  Inspirational, Life, Hands

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.79, Penguin

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• Avoid negative people at all costs. They are the greatest destroyers of self-confidence and self-esteem.

  Brian Tracy

  Confidence, People, Negative

  Brian Tracy (1998). “The Gift of Self-Confidence”, p.37, Jaico Publishing House

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• Self-esteem is not a luxury; it is a profound spiritual need.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Spiritual, Luxury, Profound

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• In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity, those who preserve their self-esteem are likely to be heroic exceptions.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Integrity, Expression, Culture

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• It would be hard to name a more certain sign of poor self-esteem than the need to perceive some other group as inferior.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Names, Groups, Would Be

  "The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem". Book by Nathaniel Branden, 1994.

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