Self Esteem Quotes - Page 29

With an objective eye, take an inventory of your successes and enlist the honest feedback of a trusted and respected mentor or peer. Chances are they see you in a better light than you see yourself!

Do not hide behind any mask

We all go through times of self-doubt, times when we may question our abilities and hope we can live up to the expectations of others.

Often, we tend to wrap ourselves around him so tight that we neglect our mission, our purpose, our calling, sometimes our children and even our God

Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. And happiness requires, not surrender to guilt, but emancipation from guilt.

It has nothing to do with who I am as compared to everyone else. It has everything to do with who I am in companionship with God.

How could we have unearth our greatest potential without adversity?

Don't be so defensive and afraid to be proven wrong that you miss the opportunity to learn from your mistakes.

Don't be afraid of who you're not.. Be afraid of never knowing who you are. Defend your authentic self.

Arise and pursue your dreams.

The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters.

Dress confidently in clothes that make you feel great about yourself. When you look better you feel better.

The person identifies with the image the others have created of him on Facebook, and this image in turn guides his life and actions. He comes to believe that his public image (with the comments underneath it) is who he is.

Those who do not attempt to appear more than they are but are simply themselves, stand out as remarkable and are the only ones who truly make a difference in this world.

In every aspect of life, be true to who you are. There is no need to communicate subliminally. If you believe in your words or actions, then express yourself completely. Live, Laugh, & Love without regrets.

Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine.

The only reason you continue to love someone who treats you poorly is because you don't value yourself enough.

Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from actually seeing women. It does not, contrary to its own professed ideology, stimulate and gratify sexual longing. In suggesting a vision in place of a woman, it has a numbing effect, reducing all senses but the visual, and impairing even that.

Self-respect is the very cement of character, without which character will not form nor stand; a personal ideal is the only possible foundation for self-respect, without which self-respect degenerates into vanity or conceit, or is lost entirely, its place being taken by worthlessness and the consciousness of worthlessness; and that is the end of all character. It is often said that if we do not respect ourselves no one else will respect us; this is rather a dangerous way to put it; let us rather say that if we are not worthy of our own respect we cannot claim the respect of others. True self-respect is a matter of being and never of mere seeming. As Paulsen says, "It is vanity that desires first of all to be seen and admired, and then, if possible, really to be something; whereas proper self esteem desires first of all to be something, and' then, if possible, to have its worth recognized.

Self-confident people are mindful about spending their time, energy, and interests on things that truly matter.

You don't have to love yourself unconditionally before you can give or receive real love.

Be encouraged! You can fulfil your dream.

Even the models we see in magazines wish they could look like their own images.

Be cheerful!

We must look deep into our soul daily.

How well you do things should be incidental, not integral, to the way you regard yourself.

People may not see you the way you see yourself. But, that's because they don't want to acknowledge your uniqueness. Jealousy is not disguised.

Embrace life with hope than despair.

I am blessed and highly favoured.

There's always this one girl. She's desperate and she's weird and she's jealous, and you're stuck with her, no matter how hard you try to get her off your back. Just throw some really fucked-up self-esteem issues into the mix and you have Kara.

Positive thoughts revive the spirit, restore the soul and make the body healthy.

When we dwell on the God’s promises; we find the faith, hope and courage to survive life.

Thy word O Lord is my hope.

A wonderful place to start is to seek role models who exemplify this way of being and try their style on for size.

Do not undervalue what you are ultimately worth because you are at a momentary disadvantage.

When you have grace to speak kind words, declare the sacred-words.

I have only been a ‘Poor Me’ once or twice in my life…. And that was my own fault.

You have to push beyond every limitation to achieve the goal.

We are always immeasurably bigger than the little person we’ve too often doomed ourselves to be.

Keep dreaming big. You have a great glorious future.

Every day I wake up and re-commit to my health. This is a very important step for me. I let the past be the past. I try not to dwell on the mistakes I've made, because those kinds of thoughts only bring me down. I wake up every day with the thought that this is a new day. That today I am going to eat well, I am going to exercise, and I'm going to focus on being healthy and happy.

A woman in love with herself is magnetic.

You just have to say to yourself, "I am not willing to accept anything less than what I deserve! I am smart! I am Beautiful! I am a good woman and I deserve to be happy!" It all starts with you.

Allow people to walk all over your carpet, not all over you.

Let go of all the negative thoughts. Fill your mind with positive thoughts.

As long as we dare dream, we can occupy new land.

Acknowledgement is possession. When you acknowledge, think or have conviction in something, it actually will come true.

one big problem and a great paradox in the arena of life is the problem of where or how a person is now and what, who and where he wants to be or have tomorrow. Had it not be this problem, we would have been relaxing all day long

If I had a daughter, here's what I'd tell her: One day, when you've worked hard for what you want, when people see that you are confident and intelligent and that you recognize your own self-worth, when you take care of yourself, support yourself, and stand up for yourself, that is the day that the world will call you "a cruel and selfish bitch." It's a tough title to earn and you should be and proud of it.

Love yourself,love your uniqueness. You are the only person can be true to yourself.

If you believe that you can use sex to shore up your fragile self-esteem by stealing someone else's, we feel sorry for you, because this will never work to build a solid sense of self worth, and you will have to go on stealing more and more and never getting fulfilled.

I don't know why, but people seem to be fascinated to learn how some members of society fall through the cracks. I think it's partly that feeling that... it could happen to anyone. But I think it also makes people feel better about their own lives. It makes them think, 'Well, I may think my life is bad, but it could be worse, I could be that poor sod.

Charisma (presence, poise, magnetism) and charm (enchantment, attraction, fascination) are behaviors which can be learned and practiced.

Your blessings far outnumber your bitterness.

Know your worth so you know when to say, “Yes”, and when to say, “Thank you but no thank you.

Life is an individual race of endurance.

Stop waiting for creative inspiration. Start creating and inspire yourself along the way.

When you fall into the gutter you tell yourself that you can climb out. Then you notice that you’re covered in filth but you still think that you can get out. But the smell seeps into your soul and is always there with you. All you need is someone else to look at you differently, talk to you like you’re someone that matters and extend a hand. Only then can you climb into the gutter.

Let me ask you something, in all the years that you have...undressed in front of a gentleman has he ever asked you to leave? Has he ever walked out and left? No? It's because he doesn't care! He's in a room with a naked girl, he just won the lottery. I am so tired of saying no, waking up in the morning and recalling every single thing I ate the day before, counting every calorie I consumed so I know just how much self loathing to take into the shower. I'm going for it. I have no interest in being obese, I'm just through with the guilt. So this is what I'm going to do, I'm going to finish this pizza, and then we are going to go watch the soccer game, and tomorrow we are going to go on a little date and buy ourselves some bigger jeans.

A sad truth is that we don't know what we really believe! We don't know how we operate. We don't know what is holding us back. We don't know why we do what we do.