It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
Abraham Lincoln
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.
Olin Miller
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Rabbi Abraham Heschel
Fight! Be somebody! If you have lost confidence in yourself, make believe you are somebody else, somebody that's got brains, and act like him.
Sol Hess
Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple will crumble to dust.
Marcus Aurelius
Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
Harry Fosdick
One of the marks of excellent people is that they never compare themselves with others. They only compare themselves with themselves and with their past accomplishments and future potential.
Brian Tracy
The stretch of the limousine usually is inversely proportional to the self-esteem of the person riding in it.
Denis Waitley
Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.
Judy Garland
Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.
Anthony Trollope
Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
Nathaniel Branden
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
Aristotle
You cannot consistently perform in a manner that is inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
Zig Ziglar
Once a person accepts himself, it isn't imperative that others accept him. He is not "destroyed" if others reject him.
Zig Ziglar
Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.
Pythagoras
Not doing the things we know we should do causes us to feel guilty and guilt leads to an erosion of self-confidence. As our self-confidence diminishes, so does the level of our activity. And as our activity diminishes, our results inevitably decline.
Jim Rohn
Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it.
Lady Duff-Gordon
Self esteem is the immune system of the mind and of the spirit.
Lee Pulos
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
Theodor Geisel
The more your behavior in the moment is consistent with what you feel your ideal behavior should be, the more you like and respect yourself and the happier you are.
Brian Tracy
You always operate in a manner consistent with your self-concept, whether positive or negative.
Brian Tracy
Overcoming self-limiting beliefs and self-imposed limitations is often the biggest obstacle standing between you and the realization of your full potential.
Brian Tracy
When you confront your fears and move toward what you are afraid of, your fears diminish while at the same time your self esteem and self confidence increases.
Brian Tracy
People who don't give up keep trying because they don't base their self-worth on their performance.
John Maxwell
Your self-esteem is largely determined by the relationship between your self-image, how you are performing in your day-to-day activities, and your self-ideal, the way you would perform if you were the very best person you could be. The more that your day-to-day activities are consistent with the person you want to become, the higher is your self-esteem.
Brian Tracy
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
Henry Link
Close friends and relatives, while not meaning to do so, often handicap one through "opinions" and sometimes through ridicule, which is meant to be humorous. Thousands of men and women carry inferiority complexes with them all through life, because some well-meaning but ignorant person destroyed their confidence through "opinions" or ridicule.
Napoleon Hill
If you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like yourself, except in some short-term, psych-up, superficial way.
Stephen Covey
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I believe that a life of integrity is the most fundamental source of personal worth. I do not agree with the popular success literature that says that self-esteem is primarily a matter of mind set, of attitude - that you can psych yourself into peace of mind.
Stephen Covey
Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.
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Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
Sam Walton
You feel better about yourself whenever you push yourself to do your best. You increase your self-esteem whenever you go beyond the point where the average person would normally quit.
Brian Tracy
The more you discipline yourself to persist on a major task, the more you like and respect yourself, and the higher is your self-esteem.
Brian Tracy
Take me and cast me where you will; I shall still be possessor of the divinity within me, serene and content.
Marcus Aurelius
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Authentic persons - winners - do not dedicate their lives to a concept of what they imagine they should be; rather, they are themselves and as such do not use their energy putting on a performance, maintaining pretence, and manipulating others.
Muriel James
How successful you will be at anything is inexorably tied to the words and beliefs about yourself that you have stored in your subconscious mind.
Shad Helmstetter
Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do.
Marcus Aurelius
Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you.
Sanity means tying it to your own actions.
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Look at who they really are, the people whose approval you long for, and what their minds are really like. Then you won't blame the ones who make mistakes they can't help, and you won't feel a need for their approval. You will have seen the sources of both - their judgments and their actions.
Marcus Aurelius
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Never compare your inside with somebody else's outside.
Hugh Macleod
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