Browsing Topic Best Self Esteem Quotes

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind. Such a man is not malleable; he may be mistaken, he may be fooled in a given instance, but he is inflexible in regard to the absolutism of reality, i.e., in seeking and demanding truth.

Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.

Riches I need not, nor man’s empty praise.

I wish I could show you…the astonishing light of your own being.

If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.