Self Esteem Quotes - Page 38

• I work out all the time. Cardio, resistance and a lot of jogging. I love to go hiking. I'm going to invest this in myself, into my self-worth, into my self-esteem.

  Fergie

  Self Worth, Hiking, Work Out

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• So I went to a club the other day, which is timely because my self esteem had been hovering right around 'normal' and I had been meaning to knock it down to negative 1000.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Funny, Humor, Negative

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• Talking about your hair becomes a framework for talking about your vanity, your self-esteem, your relationships with your family, your mortality.

  Elizabeth Benedict

  Vanity, Hair, Talking

  Source: nytlive.nytimes.com

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• The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.

  James Allen

  Success, Spring, Vision

  James Allen (2016). “As We Think, So We Are: James Allen's Guide to Transforming Our Lives”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• Always remember that your personality is your big asset. Do not try to emulate another person. Real personality comes from the heart.

  Thomas Watson, Jr.

  Real, Heart, Personality

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• My parents, my teachers, my friends, my ex-wife-everybody held up a mirror and I accepted the image that came back. Well, it finally dawned on me that my reflection in others' eyes was the truth once removed.

  Richard Moran

  Teacher, Eye, Reflection

  Richard Moran (1990). “Dallas Down”, Jove Publications

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• It horribly skews the meaning of the cross when contemporary prophets of self-esteem say that the cross is a witness to my infinite worth. The biblical perspective is that the cross in a witness to the infinite worth of God's glory, and a witness to the immensity of the sin of my pride.

  John Piper

  Humble, Biblical, Pride

  John Piper (2004). “The Supremacy of God in Preaching”, p.35, Baker Books

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• According to the spirit of this age, the ultimate sin is no longer the failure to honor and thank God but the failure to esteem oneself. Self-abasement, not God-abasement, is the evil. And the cry of deliverance is not "O wretched man that I am, who will deliver me?" but "O worthy man that I am, would that I could only see it better"!

  John Piper

  Men, Evil, Honor

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• Pass down values every day through your actions, your words and your time with your kids.

  Robert H. Frank

  Kids, Action, Values

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• Most of our stress and suffering come not from events, but from our thoughts. Reframe from negative thoughts, and stress subsides.

  Martha Beck

  Stress, Suffering, Events

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• When your goal is to build people up, to make them feel better, to share in their joy, you too reap the rewards of their positive feelings. The next time you have the chance to correct someone, even if their facts are a little off, resist the temptation. Instead, ask yourself, "What do I really want out of this interaction?" Chances are, what you want is a peaceful interaction where all parties leave feeling good. Each time you resist 'being right,' and instead choose kindness, you'll notice a peaceful feeling within.

  Richard Carlson

  Kindness, Party, Feel Better

  Richard Carlson (1998). “Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• When my mother makes out her income tax return every year, under occupation she writes, eroding my daughter's self-esteem.

  Robin Roberts

  Mother, Daughter, Writing

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• Children cannot be fooled by empty praise and condescending encouragement. They may have to accept artificial bolstering of their self-esteem in lieu of something better, but what I call their accruing ego identity gains real strength only from wholehearted and consistent recognition of real accomplishment, that is, achievement that has meaning in their culture.

  Erik Erikson

  Encouragement, Children, Real

  Erik H. Erikson (1994). “Identity and the Life Cycle”, p.95, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The world is as good as you are. You've got to learn to like yourself first.

  Steve McQueen

  World, Firsts, Like You

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• No one can give you anything-love, shame, self-esteem- until you give it to yourself. Today, give yourself good things.

  Martha Beck

  Giving, Today, Shame

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• We are all starved for the glory of God, not self. No one goes to the Grand Canyon to increase self-esteem. Why do we go? Because there is greater healing for the soul in beholding splendor than there is in beholding self.

  John Piper

  Healing, Soul, Splendor

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• Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.

  Imran Khan

  Fighting, Balance, Colonialism

  "Imran Khan: 'America is destroying Pakistan. We're using our army to kill our own people with their money'". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2011.

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• I love seeing my characters big up there and I would have liked to have reached a different public in movies from my television public. There's still a part of me that wishes that my character range could be seen on the big screen. Rather, as Rod Steiger was, because he was a big influence on me - about becoming other people and not worrying about your own glory or self esteem but sacrificing yourself to become somebody else.

  David Suchet

  Character, Sacrifice, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Most comedians want to be the architect of their own embarrassment. They have horrible self-esteem issues. I would rather push myself into the mud. I don't want to be pushed into the mud. I think that is probably true. I think most people struggle with self-acceptance. But comedians get a chance to self externalize.

  Mike Myers

  Struggle, Acceptance, Thinking

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• It's flattering that people think I'm sexy, but it's not the end-all, be-all. The minute I put my self-esteem on what they think I am, I'm screwed, because one day they're not going to think I'm sexy.

  Eva Mendes

  Sexy, Thinking, People

  Interview with David Colman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2008.

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• If you don't believe inside yourself that you can learn a lot, nobody's ever going to do that for you. Nobody's ever gonna give you self drive. Nobody's ever gonna give you self esteem. Nobody's ever gonna give you your self worth. You have to set it for yourself.

  Brother Ali

  Believe, Self Worth, Giving

  Source: www.pauseculture.com

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• Action helps you think and raises your self-esteem. Good luck happens when you're in action. Ask yourself, "Does this go toward or away from what I want?" There's an animal in us, and it has great instincts. Scan for a desire and follow it. Set a goal, any goal, and start doing everything you can think of to achieve it.

  Barbara Sher

  Good Luck, Animal, Thinking

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• Self-esteem is the basis for feminism because self-esteem is based on defining yourself and believing in that definition. Self-esteem is regarding yourself as a grown-up.

  Susan Faludi

  Believe, Feminism, Definitions

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• Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us - then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls.

  Carl Sagan

  Past, Challenges, Age

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.50, Ballantine Books

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• Always concentrate on the most valuable use of your time. This is what separates the winners from the losers. Self-esteem is the reputation you have with yourself.

  Brian Tracy

  Use, Reputation, Loser

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