269 Quotes by Nathaniel Branden

Self-discipline is the ability to organize your behavior over time in the service of specific goals.

The challenge for people today--and it is not and easy one--is to maintain high personal standards even while feeling that one is living in a moral sewer.

What is required for many of us, paradoxical though it may sound, is the courage to tolerate happiness without self-sabotage.

I am responsible for my own existence and happiness.

Everyone who has any familiarity with psychology knows about the danger of disowning the murderer within. Far fewer people understand the tragedy of disowning the hero within.

Ideas do matter and do have consequences.

All positive interactions with other human beings involve, to some degree, the experience of visibility-- that is, the experience of being seen and understood.

The greater a child’s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a strong and healthy sense of self.

Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.