Self Esteem Quotes - Page 33

• You are living in a time when opportunities for self-empowerment, expanded awareness and spiritual growth appear to be unlimited.

  Barbara Marciniak

  Spiritual, Self Confidence, Opportunity

  Barbara Marciniak (2010). “Path of Empowerment: New Pleiadian Wisdom for a World in Chaos”, p.4, New World Library

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• Based on our natural heritage as the Divine Light of God, every one of us possesses intuition... defined as the language of the soul.

  James Van Praagh

  Self Confidence, Light, Soul

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• Our connection with our intuitive self is ever present and always a part of ourselves.

  James Van Praagh

  Self Confidence, Connections, Intuitive

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• We use intuition as a way to connect with our Divine Self.

  James Van Praagh

  Self Confidence, Intuition, Use

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• Repect yourself... The rest will follow.

  Pythagoras

  Self Confidence, Boost Self Esteem, Esteem

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• The determination and conviction to succeed can only come from within.

  Anthony D. Williams

  Determination, Self Confidence, Succeed

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• Remind yourself that you are supported, that you are not going it alone upon this Earth. Dwell in the company of your Non-Physical Teachers and Guides.

  Gary Zukav

  Teacher, Self Confidence, Earth

  Gary Zukav (1999). “The Seat of the Soul”, G K Hall & Company

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• Groveling for connection from someone who compares you to Hitler is not good for a person's self-esteem.

  Amy Dickinson

  Women, Connections, Groveling

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• I think the biggest difference is that I've noticed Western parents seem much more concerned about their children's psyches, their self-esteem, whereas tough immigrant parents assume strength rather than fragility in their children and therefore behave completely differently.

  Amy Chua

  Children, Thinking, Psych

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• Always help people increase their own self-esteem. Develop your skill in making other people feel important. There is hardly a higher compliment you can pay an individual than helping him to be useful and to find satisfaction in his usefulness.

  Donald Laird

  Compliments You, Skills, People

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• If you are a woman, if you're a person of color, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are a person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world. And it's going to be really hard to find messages of self-love and support anywhere. Especially women's and gay men's culture. It's all about how you have to look a certain way, or else you're worthless... For us to have self-esteem is truly an act of revolution, and our revolution is long overdue.

  Margaret Cho

  Integrity, Gay, Bisexual

  "Margaret Cho: Notorious C.H.O". TV Special, June 13, 2002.

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• I don't know why it is, exactly, but the people with the healthiest self-esteem, are also the greatest at intimacy. I'm not talking about arrogant people. I'm talking about people who know they are both good and bad yet believe at the deepest level they are really good for people.

  Donald Miller

  Believe, Talking, People

  Donald Miller (2015). “Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy”, p.127, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• All violence is an attempt to replace shame with self-esteem.

  James Gilligan

  Violence, Shame, Self

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• The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This creates a tricky emphasis on image, but the internalized locus of self-worth saves lives. Western men are very different. In externalizing the source of their self-esteem, they surrender all emotional independence. (Conquest requires two parties, after all.) A man cannot feel like a man without a partner, corporation, team. Manhood is a game played on the terrain of opposites. It thus follows that male sense of self disintegrates when the Other is absent.

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke

  Team, Party, Men

  Antonella Gambotto-Burke (2013). “The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide”, p.9, Antonella Gambotto-Burke

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• All children want to do is play in worlds they create and project on their external world. If allowed to do that, they are constantly building new neural structures for creating internal worlds and projecting them on their external world. And they build up an enormous self-esteem and feeling of power over the external world through their own capacities.

  Joseph Chilton Pearce

  Children, Play, Creating

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• To men of a certain type The suspicion that they are incapable of loving Is as disturbing to their self-esteem As, in cruder men, the fear of impotence.

  T. S. Eliot

  Love, Men, Type

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.364, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Geology has joined biology in lowering mankind's self-esteem. Geology suggests how mankind's existence is contingent upon the geological consent of the planet.

  George Will

  Biology, Planets, Existence

  George Will (2008). “One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation”, p.357, Crown Forum

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• When I have my interview with my God, our conversation will focus on the individuals whose self-esteem I was able to strengthen, whose faith I was able to reinforce, and whose discomfort I was able to assuage—a doer of good, regardless of what assignment I had. These are the metrics of that matter in measuring my life. This realization, which occurred nearly fifteen years ago, guided me every day to seek opportunities to help people in ways tailored to their individual circumstances. My happiness and my sense of worth has been immeasurably improved as a result.

  Clayton Christensen

  Opportunity, Years, People

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• If only corporal punishment cured low self-esteem.

  Jeph Jacques

  Punishment, Lows, Ifs

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• There is nothing that so raises a young man's self-esteem, that so contributes to the formation of his character as for him to find himself unexpectedly confronted with a task which he has to accomplish entirely on his own initiative and by his own efforts.

  Stefan Zweig

  Character, Men, Effort

  "Beware of Pity". Book by Stefan Zweig, 1939.

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• I always seem to be chosen to do very flattering things like the beard comb over or go to the bathroom with the door open on Sex and the City or be the guy people meow at in Super Troopers. It's great for self esteem.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Sex, Doors, Cities

  "Ask Jim Gaffigan". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. November 28, 2007.

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• I have a giant ego and terrible self-esteem, so I need to hit the re-set button fairly regularly - to get into presence, and humility, and being right-sized.

  Anne Lamott

  Humility, Ego, Buttons

  "Anne Lamott on 'Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers'". Interview with Lois Alter Mark, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 21, 2012.

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• So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they're already met?

  Bill Watterson

  Expectations, Secret, Mets

  "The Days Are Just Packed". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1993.

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• Self-esteem is like a difficult-to-cultivate flower. It requires frequent nurturing that occurs when you keep your word and follow through on your promises.

  Derrick Bell

  Flower, Promise, Keeping Your Word

  Derrick Bell (2010). “Ethical Ambition”, p.49, A&C Black

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• Self-esteem doesn't come simply from dressing well, but they are both something we can control. It's a missed opportunity when women say they don't have the money, figure, etc., because style is such a way to help cultivate the way women feel about themselves.

  Stacy London

  Opportunity, Style, Dressing Well

  "Q&A: Stacy London tells 'The Truth About Style'". Interview with Jillian Singh, blog.sfgate.com. October 9, 2012.

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