Self Esteem Quotes - Page 36

• I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbelievable, and those feelings of low self-esteem - the way that all comes together on the screen? Delicious.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Men, Feelings, Humanity

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• Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them. Love is the most impregnable refuge of self-esteem, and we hate the eye that reaches to our nakedness. Edith Wharton ~ The Touchstone

  Edith Wharton

  Hate, Eye, Love Is

  Edith Wharton (1900). “The Greater Inclination: The Touchstone”

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• Self-esteem is the goddamn root of all evil.

  Roseanne Barr

  Roots, Evil, Self

  "Roseanne: What I've Learned". www.esquire.com. March, 2001.

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• The average man plays to the gallery of his own self-esteem.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Men, Average, Play

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• To be an actor, a lot of times it's a strange combination of high confidence and low self-esteem. Which is a weird combination to have, but I think it's sort of very common among actors.

  Kurt Fuller

  Thinking, Actors, Common

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There are studies that tell us that stress and lack of self-image, lack of self-esteem, severe dieting, binge dieting and binge eating can also be very damaging to a body and bring on various kinds of abnormalities.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Stress, Dieting, Body

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The most basic activism we can have in our lives is to live consciously in a nation living in fantasies. Living consciously is living with a core of healthy self-esteem. You will face reality, you will not delude yourself.

  Bell Hooks

  Reality, Healthy, Faces

  "The BK Nation INTERVIEW with bell hooks". Interview with Kevin Powell, bknation.org. February 28, 2014.

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• Nowadays, with history not being taught anymore in American public schools, self-esteem is taking its place.

  Dennis Miller

  School, Taught, Self

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• You've got to maintain your level of self-esteem through everything. You are who you are, and nobody will ever be able to take that from you if you don't let them

  Donna Summer

  Levels, Able, Ifs

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• Philosophy would do well to desist from issuing any further injunctions about the need to re-establish the meaningfulness of existence, the purposefulness of life, or mend the shattered concord between man and nature. It should strive to be more than a sop to the pathetic twinge of human self-esteem. Nihilism is not an existential quandary but a speculative opportunity.

  Ray Brassier

  Philosophy, Opportunity, Men

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• Self-esteem can’t win you a race if you’re not in shape.

  Louis Zamperini

  Winning, Race, Shapes

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• Negative thinking patterns can be immensely deceptive and persuasive, and change is rarely easy. But with patience and persistence, I believe that nearly all individuals suffering from depression can improve and experience a sense of joy and self-esteem once again.

  David D. Burns

  Believe, Persistence, Thinking

  David D. Burns, M.D. (2013). “Ten Days to Self-Esteem: The Leader's Manual”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• Every time you encounter something that forces you to “handle it,” your self-esteem is raised considerably. You learn to trust that you will survive, no matter what happens. And in this way your fears are diminished immeasurably.

  Susan Jeffers

  Encounters, Matter, Way

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• There are, however, exceptions to this reliance on feelings as evidence of truth: if, for instance, your feelings lead to disbelief instead of belief, they're apt to be dismissed as some form of denial. This is not a common problem. Usually intellectualism, not feeling reality, is blamed for disbelief. But, some angel experts suggest, there may be emotional as well as intellectual barriers to belief: unwillingness to believe in angels can reflect low self-esteem.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Believe, Angel, Emotional

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• If [being confident stems from] a self-esteem issue, it's important to embrace the things you might define as so-called imperfections - because something that you might call an imperfection, someone else might find so amazing and so beautiful. It's all in how you embrace yourself, your faults, and your mistakes in life. There's no better way to learn and become a better person than to go through those moments.

  John Slattery

  Beautiful, Mistake, Issues

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Self-esteem and identity are very fragile things. I think a lot of times, those are the motivations for why people do take their own lives - not being seen, not being recognized, not being loved, not feeling supported, not feeling understood.

  Nate Parker

  Motivation, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Self-esteem is not based on itself.

  Mason Cooley

  Self, Esteem

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• I call the years when our children are between six and twelve the "golden years," not because everything's perfect . . . but because the kids are capable and independent. . . . They're becoming fascinating human beings who continually astound us and make us laugh. And they build our self-esteem. They still adore us for the most part, not yet having reached that age of thinking everything we do is dumb, old-fashioned and irrelevant.

  Vicki Lansky

  Children, Kids, Independent

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• Girls tend to attribute their failures to factors such as lack of ability, while boys tend to attribute failure to specific factors, including teachers' attitudes. Moreover, girls avoid situations in which failure is likely, whereas boys approach such situations as a challenge, indicating that failure differentially affects self-esteem.

  Michael Lewis

  Girl, Teacher, Attitude

  Michael Lewis (1995). “Shame: The Exposed Self”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• Healthy parenting is nothing if not a process of empowerment. As we help to raise our children's self-esteem, we also increase their personal power. When we encourage them to be confident, self-reliant, self-directed, and responsible individuals, we are giving them power.

  Louise Hart

  Children, Giving, Healthy

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• My adoptive mother tirelessly worked most of her life to build up my self-esteem. So what happened was finding her started to shed light and destroy my mythos. So for the first year of knowing her, my mom kind of actually literally visited me in Detroit and kind of gave me a tour of my life - where I was conceived, where I was born, where she found out she was pregnant. It was amazing, Terry, and very emotional.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Mom, Mother, Emotional

  "For Key And Peele, Biracial Roots Bestow Special Comedic 'Power'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 20, 2013.

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• The only thing socialists produce is debt and self-esteem

  Dennis Prager

  Debt, Produce, Self

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• That's like the fourth time I've been called a women in this past hour. It's really starting to boost my self-esteem.

  Drew Chadwick

  Past, Hours, Starting

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• Literacy is the door to knowledge, essential to individual self-esteem and empowerment. Books, in all forms, play an essential role here.

  Irina Bokova

  Book, Doors, Play

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• Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after all, is really about you.

  Denis Dutton

  Art, Museums, Culture

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