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

Denis Waitley

“Don’t worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.”

Unknown

“Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.”

Martin Luther King, Jr.

“In order to be happy we require all kinds of supports to our self-esteem. We are human beings, therefore human beings are the purpose of god’s creation”

Bertrand Russel

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

Unknown

“Most people with low self-esteem have earned it”

George Carlin

“Morale is self-esteem in action”

Avery Weisman

“Self-esteem isn’t everything; it’s just that there’s nothing without it”

Gloria Steinman

“That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own self-esteem”

Samuel Johnson

“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

“Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health, self-esteem, not its cause”

Nathaniel Branden

“The average man plays to the gallery of his own self esteem”

Elbert Hubbard

“Self-esteem is the basis of any democracy”

Gloria Steinman

“Most urgently, women’s identity must be premised upon our “beauty” so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self esteem exposed to the air”

Naomi Wolf

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

“Yours is the energy that makes your world. There are no limitations to the self except those you believe in.”

Jane Roberts

“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”

Thich Nhat Hanh