Self Esteem Quotes - Page 18

You are not a victim. You are a willing participant that has created your own anxiety through your negative mind, insecurities and actions. If you want to secure your future then the only way is through love, forgiveness and the willingness to admit you have participated in the uncomfortableness you are experiencing now. Stop telling yourself you are justified in hate, indifference, silence or bias. You are not. You can't build a positive life through battling others. The world is full of victims. No one wants to hear that story. People want to know how you did what the majority wouldn't do-you forgave and built up your enemies. It is seems totally rare and unheard of these days to swallow your pain and take the high road, but guess what? Those are the leaders that people admire and want to know. Those are the 1% who change the world and people's lives. So why do you want to be like the world when you can be beyond it?

That is because no one could ever hate me as much as I hate myself, okay? So any mean thing someone's gonna think of to say about me, I've already said to me, about me, probably within the last half hour.

The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.

The nature of the 'collapse of the wave function' is determined by our self-concept stored in the subconscious mind. Our subconscious mind is aware of the 'many-worlds' occurring simultaneously and chooses the reality we continue to exist in based on our self-concept.

When you only know your faults and failures, you allow yourself and others to downgrade your dreams and belittle your wants.

The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.

Exercise promotes positive self-image and good well-being.

I have known many true connoisseurs, with excellent tastes that range across the humanities and the culinary arts--and they never fail to have a fatal effect on my self-esteem. When I find myself sitting at dinner next to someone who knows just as much about novels as I do but has somehow also found the mental space to adore and be knowledgeable about the opera, have strong opinions about the relative rankings of Renaissance painters, an encyclopedic knowledge of the English civil war, of French wines--I feel an anxiety that nudges beyond the envious into the existential. How did she find the time?

Use your special gifts to fulfil your divine purpose.

Examine what you tolerate. What you put up with you end up with. What you allow continues. Reevaluate the costs and your worth.

It's none of your concern what others say or think about you. Your happiness is your own responsibility.

Something inside her opened strong and raw while she played with those two words. I matter.

My desire in life, is to learn what I have to teach; to suck all the marrow of life, and pass it onto others.

Be your OWN celebrity!

Passion lights the fire in every soul.

I'll never have to give an account for not being more like my favorite celebrity, that shining star in my chosen field or anybody else. And at the end of my life, the question I never want to be asked is, "How come you weren't more like YOU? You had such great potential. You were a wholly unique person -- unrepeatable and irreplaceable. Why you weren't more like YOU?

Her beauty is laced in her strength and interwoven through her flaws. She embodies perfection.

Do not allow the opinions of others deter you. Be yourself and have faith in your abilities.

A lot of people travel because they are unhappy, but travelling does not necessary makes one happier. Sometimes it exacerbates the unhappiness, the loneliness.

I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated your lover knows you can't.

In all spheres of life, there are constraints. You have to develop your own strategy to overcome each constraint.

Make sure your beliefs match who you are: love.

I will not give up my dream for someone's dream.

Confidence is a life ingredient that is essential to success and wholeness. It is perhaps the single most important trait that enables seemingly average people to do and become all that they can. And the good news is – it can be learned. No one has to suffer a lifetime of low confidence.

We are not for ourselves. We live for the glory of Go

Our liabilities pose the problem of inadequacy; our our assets, the challenge of responsibility. Our strengths or virtues can make us feel alone, alienated, cut off from the common herd, a target for envy and hostility, and our desire to belong can overcome any desire to actualise our highest potential.

The Lord God is my hope, my joy and my strength.

If you take society’s definition of knowing oneself, you will become lost in the many translations.

A person today who seems to have a great sense of self-esteem has his or her childhood days to thank for it.

The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cure; so the surgeons depend for their income on warping female self-perception and multiplying female self-hatred.

Abiding in the vine leads to fruit bearing.

I don’t see the me that you see. I wish for just a lit­tle bit I could climb into you and then you could climb into me and then we could tell each other what we saw there.

True beauty radiates not from outer cosmetics, but from the simple joy of making a difference for those that need your voice, passion, and time without expecting or wanting anything in return...

Words are life. Positive words create positive life.

Forget about self-image and self-judgment. It's about self-love, and no one teaches you that at school. No one teaches you that if you accept and love yourself, nothing and no one can touch you. This is the only face and body you're ever going to get, so be comfortable and happy in it. Own it. Own every aspect of who you are and present it to the world with the utmost pride.

Every victory won was first won spiritually!

We tend to listen to the people who believe in their own words as opposed to those who don’t. When we feel their conviction, they earn our buy-in.

Feeding the ego is starving the wisdom, the choice is yours.

A girl should want to look good for herself, not for boys.

A life out of balance is a person that doesn’t believe happiness can be achieved now, or in the future. It is as fleeting as the wind.

Don't let anyone tell your story. Pick up a pen and write your own.

You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.

Healthy emotions come in all sizes. Healthy minds come in all sizes. And healthy bodies come in all sizes.

Yes, you ARE important enough; and yes, your needs and wants DO matter.

In solitude, the deep silent, awakens the divinity of the soul.

I take a few quick sips. "This is really good." And I mean it. I have never tasted tea like this. It is smooth, pungent, and instantly addicting."This is from Grand Auntie," my mother explains. "She told me 'If I buy the cheap tea, then I am saying that my whole life has not been worth something better.' A few years ago she bought it for herself. One hundred dollars a pound.""You're kidding." I take another sip. It tastes even better.

Do not waste your life.

You have great talents. Aim for God best for your life.

Beauty doesn't fade, it remains forever

When I loved myself enough, I no longer needed things or people to make me feel safe.

When you fail to be your own boss, You are giving somebody else the contract.

You know, that's what you've been doing in a way--coming out. Coming out of your room. Coming out of your house. Coming out of your shell.

Pride. You have it where you can have it.

It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.

The confidence God gives is the courage to dare a greater life.

falling is MY passion, you don't have to do the same.

Every morning, look in the mirror. You are beautiful and wonderful.

When people speak of great men, they think of men like Napoleon - men of violence. Rarely do they think of peaceful men. But contrast the reception they will receive when they return home from their battles. Napoleon will arrive in pomp and in power, a man who's achieved the very summit of earthly ambition. And yet his dreams will be haunted by the oppressions of war. William Wilberforce, however, will return to his family, lay his head on his pillow and remember: the slave trade is no more.

There is no one more capable of helping you than yourself.

You are amazing! That is your secret.