3,770 Quotes About Self-esteem

It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.

Let me listen to me and not to them.

I'm still the same person who grew up mostly in a Midwestern, factory-working neighborhood where talk about "self-esteem" would have seemed like a luxury.

If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.

You've got to be happy in your own skin.

It requires self-esteem to receive-not self-love but just a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself.

Socialism is, among other things, the political habitat of low self-esteem, incompetence, self-loathing, and a willingness to steal - or have stolen for you what you are unable or unwilling to work for. Socialism is a philosophy fit only for slugs, leaches, and mosquitoes.

The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self-esteem. . . . Not doing right may have momentary payoffs but will wreak havoc with your self-esteem, respect from others, and quality of life.

A woman should always be more concerned with standing up for what is right than making sure everyone 'likes' her.