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  • Stop spending so much time trying to prove what you already know to people who don't really matter. It just makes you look insecure and lacking self-confidence.

  • End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you'. Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.

  • It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.

  • I didn't have a job because nobody would hire me. My friends were getting hired, and I couldn't even get a job interview. That really rocked my self-esteem because I didn't understand what I did wrong on those job applications.

    "What Was Tyra Banks Like at 17?". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. September 9, 2011.
  • After my second-to-last record called "The Greatest," I had gone on tour for a while and I didn't play an instrument for about five years. And I got kind of - it's not self-esteem or whatever, not anger towards myself - but disappointed in myself that I hadn't been challenging myself to learn musically.

    "Cat Power: 'I'm Not Ashamed To Hear My Voice'". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. August 31, 2012.
  • Determination and persistence are melded together. Their basis comes from people who stay hungry and don`t allow themselves to get too comfortable. Entering a comfort zone is the fastest way to kill your drive and determination, at which point you begin to accept whatever you have as being "good enough." There is no self-esteem in accepting the status quo. There are tremendous emotional and psychological rewards that come with pushing yourself to break through past limits and, in the process, creating something of value for yourself and others.

  • I have never understood the importance of having children memorize battle dates. It seems like such a waste of mental energy. Instead, we could teach them important subjects such as How the Mind Works, How to Handle Finances, How to Invest Money for Financial Security, How to be a Parent, How to Create Good Relationships, and How to Create and Maintain Self-Esteem and Self-Worth. Can you imagine what a whole generation of adults would be like if they had been taught these subjects in school along with their regular curriculum?

  • Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don't base your self-esteem on their opinions.

    Harvey Mackay (2011). “The Mackay MBA of Selling in the Real World”, Penguin
  • There is so much love in your heart that you could heal the planet.

  • It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.

  • Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

    My Religion (1927) ch. 6
  • Teach your children not to strive for high self-esteem. This is nothing less than teaching them arrogance, conceit and superiority feelings.

  • When I did my first solo show and it made my dad uncomfortable, I wasn't quite ready for my spotlight moment in my life yet. I didn't have enough sense of myself and self-esteem and confidence: this is when I started looking to get my master's in something.

    Source: www.psychologyart.com
  • You know men. We have delicate egos.

    Self Esteem   Men   Ego  
    Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.505, Simon and Schuster
  • Self-care is never a selfish act - it is only good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others.

    Parker J. Palmer (2015). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.34, John Wiley & Sons
  • Identity is invariably false to facts.

  • It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.

    Ralph Ellison (2010). “Invisible Man”, p.40, Vintage
  • I had very low self-esteem. Books saved me. I found friends in stories like The Chronicles of Narnia and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. During lunch hour at school I'd avoid social interactions by sitting on the bathroom sink and reading. My mother worked in my school cafeteria. When my anxiety got really bad, I'd put a coat on, grab my book and a flashlight, and hide in the freezer with the mac and cheese.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • The most basic activism we can have in our lives is to live consciously in a nation living in fantasies. Living consciously is living with a core of healthy self-esteem. You will face reality, you will not delude yourself.

    "The BK Nation INTERVIEW with bell hooks". Interview with Kevin Powell, bknation.org. February 28, 2014.
  • But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this little box and then do their research inside it.

  • Feeling essentially superior to other people is as sure a sign of poor self-esteem as feeling essentially inferior.

  • The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

    "Running on Empty: Meditations for Indispensable Women" by Ellen Sue Stern, (p. 235), 1992.
  • The stretch of the limousine usually is inversely proportional to the self esteem of the person riding in it.

  • If we get our self-esteem from superficial places, from our popularity, appearance, business success, financial situation, health, any of these, we will be disappointed, because no one can guarantee that we'll have them tomorrow.

    "Kathy Ireland: Designing Woman". Interview with Lisa Ryan, www.cbn.com.
  • Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their fellows.

    Thorstein Veblen (2012). “The Theory of the Leisure Class”, p.27, Courier Corporation
  • It could be the make-or-break of getting that job. Obviously, your appearance matters. It helps with your self-esteem. You definitely, definitely want to put your best foot forward.

    Jobs   Self Esteem   Feet  
  • By creating so many illusory images of physical perfection, whether on store aisles or storefronts ads, magazine covers or TV show, we speak more to the profit margins of companies than the self-esteem of today's girls.

  • I was called fat and ugly in the press almost my entire life. I understand that being judged by others comes with the territory, but it broke my heart and ruined my self-esteem.

  • Never dull your shine for somebody else.

    FaceBook post by Tyra Banks from Aug 30, 2011
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