Self Esteem Quotes
Inspiring You To Be Your Best

I found a real lot of self esteem quotes in various books and on the internet. Most of them are from very succesful and famous people. To me that is an other indication of the importance of the way you see yourself as regards to happiness and success.

Here is what I ask you to do. Pick one quote everyday and take it as that day's leading thought. Write it on a piece of paper, take it with you and pull it out every now and then.

Self esteem really is the foundation of success and happiness. The more you can grow your self esteem, the greater your chances are of achieving true success, becoming who you truly are.

Enjoy these categories of self esteem quotes:

Self esteem quotes on:
Being Yourself

If I want to be free, I got to be me
Not the me I think you think I should be
Not the me I think my wife thinks I should be
Not the me I think my children think I should be
If I want to be free, I got to be me

"If I am not for myself, who will be?"
Pirke Avoth

"The tragedy is that so many people look for self-confidence and self-respect everywhere except within themselves, and so they fail in their search."
Dr Nathaniel Branden

"Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?"
Fanny Brice

"Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not."
Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Accept everything about yourself, I mean everything. You are you and that is the beginning and the end, no apologies, no regrets."
Clark Moustakas

"At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvellously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.”

“Why compare yourself with others? No one in the entire world can do a better job of being you than you.”

Self esteem quotes on:
Self Respect

"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love & affection."
Buddha

"Respect yourself if you would have others respect you."
Baltasar Gracian

"Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life."
Joe Clark

"Self-respect is the fruit of discipline: the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."
Abraham Heschel

Self esteem quotes on:
Failures and accomplishments

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
Albert Einstein

"If you want a quality, act as if you already had it."
William James

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."
Louisa May Alcott

"You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you."
Brian Tracy

"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."
Aldous Leonard Huxley

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
Howard Washington Thurman

"Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings."
Dr. Samuel Johnson

"The greatest success is successful self-acceptance."
Ben Sweet

“To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.”
Denis Waitley

“The strongest single factor in prosperity consciousness is self-esteem: believing you can do it, believing you deserve it, believing you will get it”
Jerry Gillies

“Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.”

Self esteem quotes on:
Acceptance

"Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality."
Les Brown

"It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes."
Sally Field

Self esteem quotes on:
winner versus victim

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."
Harvey Fienstein

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think."
Benjamin Disraeli

"Self pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in the world."
Helen Keller

"Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world making the most of one's best."
Harry Emerson Fosdick

Self esteem quotes on:
The world is your mirror

"The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others."
Dr Sonya Friedman

"It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others."
Sidney J. Harris

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