Quotes tagged ‘Self-Esteem’

(131 total)

“It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.”

“By understanding and analyzing our feelings, we learn to see how emotions impact on our behavior in unexpected, counterintuitive and sometimes dangerous ways. Philosophers were the first therapists.”

— Alain de Botton, dailystoic.com

“Just knowing in your heart that you are a good person—an honest, good person—can get you through an awful lot of crap.”

— Martha Stewart, goodhousekeeping.com

“Find out who you are and figure out what you believe in. Even if it's different from what your neighbors believe in and different from what your parents believe in. Stay true to yourself. Have your own opinion. Don't worry about what people say about you or think about you. Let the naysayers nay. Th…”

— Ellen Degeneres, books.google.com

“So thank you, men. In submitting my body to surgeries and drugs, it was hard to think of myself as a normal person, much less as desirable.”

— Rachel Moscovich, medium.com

“It’s always important to have your own mind.”

— David Beckham, mrporter.com

“I knew, that if my parents could see me now, they'd be jealous of how lumpin' awesome I am.”

— Ken Osborne, Somvilay Xayaphone, Lumpy Space Princess, Pendleton Ward, imdb.com

“Self-esteem is an inside job and there might come a point that you realize she just isn’t ready for you. That’s okay. Someone else will be.”

— Bridget Phetasy, melmagazine.com

“You don't want to mess with my sister. She'll wear down your self-esteem over a period of years.”

— Dan Fybel, Rich Rinaldi, Tina Belcher, Dan Mintz, imdb.com

“It took me 20 years to set myself free and kill that little voice inside that whispers "Don’t go there. You can’t do it. Don’t take the chance."”

— Barbara Corcoran, twitter.com

“You can slap my wrists until they're bloody, lady. I don't give a shit. I'm giving you a win well above your pay grade. You get your devil and you punch your ticket out of this cesspool. So let's not get too lost in righteousness. I'm the scumbag outlaw, and you're the pillar of justice. And neither…”

— Kem Nunn, Kurt Sutter, Jax Teller, Charlie Hunnam, imdb.com

“Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do the job for him.”

— Theon Greyjoy, George R. R. Martin, amazon.com

“I'm ugly and I'm proud, I'm ugly and I'm proud, I'm ugly and I'm proud!”

— Aaron Springer, Merriwether Williams, C.H. Greenblatt, Spongebob Squarepants, Tom Kenny, imdb.com

“Worthiness doesn't have prerequisites.”

— Brené Brown, amazon.com

“If we want to fully experience love and belonging, we must belive that we are worthy of love and belonging.”

— Brené Brown, amazon.com

“Ed's not a guy who goes, "What do you think?" Ed's in his own thing and he's a star athlete.”

— John Mayer, rollingstone.com

“I realized not long ago that I'm done debating my own merits: "No, I am very good.”

— John Mayer, rollingstone.com

“We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else.”

— Terence McKenna, books.google.com

“I'm finished. I trust no one, not even myself.”

— Joseph Stalin, en.wikiquote.org

“I know that the gentlemen in the enemy camp may think of me however they like. I consider it beneath me to try to change the minds of these gentlemen.”

— Joseph Stalin, msuweb.montclair.edu