Quotes about Self Esteem

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A selection of educational and inspirational quotes about self esteem.

Your self esteem is your fundamental power. It is your basic need, just like food and shelter. When you have high self esteem, you feel a sense of peace and harmony within yourself.

Read through these quotes about self esteem and see if anything resonates with you. Learn and grow. Improve your self esteem through self education.

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Self trust is the first secret of success.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve

~Napoleon Hill

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Self esteem is not everything. It's just that, there is nothing without it.

~Gloria Steinem

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We tend to feel most comfortable, "most at home", with people whose self esteem level
resembles our own.

~Nathaniel Branden

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As you love yourself, so shall you love others. Strange but true, with no exceptions.

~Harry Stack Sullivan

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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear
arms againsts himself

~Alexandre Dumas

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Until I accept my faults, I will certainly doubt my virtues.

~Hugh Prather

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A positive self image and healthy self esteem is based on approval, acceptance and recognition from others; but also upon actual accomplishments, achievements and success upon the realistic self confidence which ensues.

~Abraham Maslow

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It would be hard to name a more certain sign of poor self esteem than the need to perceive some other group as inferior.

~Nathaniel Branden

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You have been taught that there is something wrong with you and that you are imperfect, but there isn't and you're not.

~Cheri Huber

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Comparison is a sign of poor self esteem. The person who compares himself to others lives in a state of fear. He fears those he imagines are above him. Believing them to be smarter, he feels unable to stand his own ground.

~Robert Anthony

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My dream is to make families a place where adults with high self esteem can develop. I think we have reached a point where if we don't get busy on dreams of this sort, our end is in sight. We need a world that is as good for human beings as it is for technology.

~Virginia Satir

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