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"Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning."
~Anthony Trollope

"A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves."
~Jean De La Bruyere

 "The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do."
~James Allen

"Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment."
~Thomas Carlyle

"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are."
~Malcolm S. Forbes

"That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem."
~Samuel Johnson

"Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on."
~Maxwell Maltz

"Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right."
~John Milton

"No one can make you feel inferior without your permission."
~Eleanor Roosevelt

"The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away."
~Charles Schwab

"The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work."
~Brian Tracy

"Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning."
~Anthony Trollope

"Trust yourself, then you will know how to live."
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 



"The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are."
~Johann Friedrich Von Schiller


"Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish."
~Sam Walton

"There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self."
~Hindu Proverb

"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."
~Aldous Huxley

"Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable."
~Zig Ziglar

"To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives."
~Denis Waitley


"Respect yourself if you would have others respect you."
~Baltasar Gracian

"Self pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in the world."
~Helen Keller

"Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world making the most of one's best."
~Harry Emerson Fosdick

"Self-respect is the fruit of discipline: the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."
~Abraham Heschel

"Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life."
~Joe Clark

"Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality."
~Les Brown

"Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can."
~Richard Bach


"Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem."
~Eric Hoffer

"First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe," three times."
~Norman Vincent Peale

"I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this."
~A. C. Benson

"If you put a small value on yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price."
~Unknown Author

"Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized."
~Albert Einstein

"Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on."
~Maxwell Maltz
 

 

 

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