Self-esteem is how we feel about ourselves. Our opinion of ourselves critically influences everything, from our performance at work, our relationships and our role as parents, to our accomplishments in life. Self-esteem is a major component in determining success or failure. High self-esteem leads to a happy, gratifying and purposeful life. Self-esteem gives you internal drive. Self-esteem is a feeling that comes from the awareness of what is good and having done it...
These inspirational self-esteem quotes will help you see the wonder who you are. You got the power to win or to stop you from winning. Choose how to use it!
1. All that you need is deep within
you waiting to unfold and reveal itself.
All you have to do is be still and take
time to seek for what is within and
you will surely find it.
~Eileen Caddy
2. So long as you are still worried
about what others think of you, you are
owned by them. Only when you require
no approval from outside yourself
can you own yourself?
~Neale Donald Walsch
3. Everybody is a genius. But if you
judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,
it will spend its whole life believing
that it is stupid.
~Albert Einstein
4. All things splendid have been
achieved by those who dared believe that
something inside them was superior
to circumstances.
~Bruce Barton
5. Everybody is unique.
Compare not yourself with anybody
else lest you spoil God's Curriculum.
~Rabbi Israel Ben Eliezer
6. People are like a stained-glass window,
They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when
the Darkness sets in their true beauty are revealed
only if there is light from within.
~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
7. Most of the Shadows
of this life are caused by standing
in one's own Sunshine.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
8. If you're wearing a disguise for too long,
it will be difficult for the mirror to recognize you.
At the end of the day, I hope you become
the person they didn't expect you to be.
Be proud to wear you.
~Dodinsky
9. To be beautiful means to be yourself,
You don't need to be accepted by others.
You need to accept yourself.
~Thick Nhat Hanb
10. You gain strength, courage and
confidence by every experience in which
you really stop to look fear in the face.
~Eleanor Roosevelt
11. When people believe in themselves,
they have the first secret of success.
~Normen Vincent Peale
12. The way you treat yourself,
sets the standard for others.
~Dr. Sonya Fiedman
13. No matter how valuable you are and your ideas,
fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude
yourselves from the inflammatory environs of fools.
~Michael Bassey Johnson
14. Never be bullied into silence.
Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
Accept no one's definition of your
life; define yourself.
~Harvey Feinstein
15. Nobody holds a good opinion of a man
who holds a low opinion of himself.
~Anthony Trollop
16. A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice
and doesn't implement any of it.
~Michael Bassey Johnson
17. People who repeatedly attack
your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware
of your potential, even if you are not.
~Wayne Gerard Trotman
18. 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
19. If you want to find the real competition,
just look in the mirror. After a while, you'll see
your rivals scrambling for second place.
~Criss Jami
20. The way you think about yourself determines
your reality. You are not being hurt by the way people
think about you. Many of those people
are a reflection of how you
think about yourself.
~Shannon L. Alder
21. Confidence is knowing who you are and not
changing it a bit because of someone's version of
reality is not your reality.
~Shannon L. Alder
22. A diamond doesn't start out polished and shining.
It once was nothing special, but with enough pressure and
time, becomes spectacular. I'm that diamond.
~Solange Nicole
23. Remember, you have been criticizing yourself
for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself
and see what happens.
~Louise L. Hay
24. Whenever you are going through life's challenges,
remember that for iron to be cast into its desired form,
it must first go through intense heat.
~Idowu Koyenikan
25. 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
26. Never be bullied into silence. Never allow
yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition
of your life, but define yourself.
~Aberjhani
27. Don't waste your energy trying to change
27. Don't waste your energy trying to change
opinions...Do your thing, and don't care
if they like it.
~Tina Fey
28. You can search throughout the entire universe for
someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than
you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere.
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserve your love and affection.
~Sharon Salzberg
29. Whenever I am in a difficult situation where there
seems to be no way out, I think about all the times
I have been in such situations and say to
myself, "I did it before, so I can do it again".
~Idowu Koyenikan
30. Be with ones......
who build you and your self-esteem,
Break up and move one. from the ones who
use you or Bring you Down.
~Venkat Desieddy
31. The better you feel about yourself,
the less you feel the need to show off.
~Robert Hond
32. Why should we worry about what others
think of us, do we have more confidence in their
opinions than we do our own?
~Brigham Young
33. The more we see ourselves as a vibrant,
a successful, inspiring person who boldly declares
and manifests her vision, the more
we become just that.
~Kristi Bowman
34. I don't want everyone to like me; I should think
less of myself if some people did.
~Henry James
35. Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities!
Without humble but reasonable confidence in your
own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
~Norman Vincent Peale
36. As long as you look for someone else to validate
who you are by seeking their approval, you are setting
yourself up for disaster. You have to be whole
and complete in yourself. No one can you that.
You have to know who you are-what
others say is irrelevant.
~Nic Sheff
37. The first step toward being loved is learning
to love what you see when you look in the mirror.
~Tadahiko Nagao
38. Don't let what you
can't do stop you from doing
what you can do.
~John Wooden
39. If others want to define you,
don't linger in their pond.
Swim away from their ignorance
and find your Ocean.
~Dodinsky
40. NO ONE can make you feel INFERIOR
without your consent.
~Eleanor Roosevelt
41. If you Care what other People Think,
You will always be their prison.
~Lao Tzu
42. No matter how badly people treat you,
NEVER drop down to their level, just know
YOU ARE BETTER
&
WALK AWAY.
~Unknown
43. It's not my responsibility to be beautiful.
I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not
about how desirable you find me.
49. Never think that you're not good enough yourself.
~Warsan Shire
44. One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized
and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away
unless it is surrendered.
~Michael J. Fox
45. I care for myself. The more solitary,
the more friendless, the more unsustained I am,
the more I will respect myself.
~Charlotte Bronte
46. Wanting to be someone else is a waste
of the person you are.
~Marilyn Monroe
47. Confront the dark parts yourself, and work to banish
them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to
wrestle with your demons will cause
your angels to sing.
~August Wilson
48. Be more concerned with your character
than your reputation, because your character is what
you really are, while your reputation is merely
what others think you are.
~John Wooden
49. Never think that you're not good enough yourself.
A man should never think that.
People will take you very much at
your own reckoning.
~Anthony Trollope
50. One of the greatest regrets in life
People will take you very much at
your own reckoning.
~Anthony Trollope
is being what others would want to be,
rather than being yourself.
~Shannon L. Alder
