Self-esteem Quotes

Most people with low self-esteem have earned it. (George Carlin)
Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Early intervention programs enrich adverse family environments. The largest effects of the early intervention programs are on noncognitive traits. Now, what do I mean by that? I mean perseverance, motivation, self-esteem, and hard work. View quote
James Heckman
Negative thinking patterns can be immensely deceptive and persuasive, and change is rarely easy. But with patience and persistence, I believe that nearly all individuals suffering from depression can improve and experience a sense of joy and self-esteem once again. View quote
David D. Burns
The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself. View quote
Bill Gates
No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone. View quote
Martha Beck
Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional. View quote
Albert Ellis
So many comics have such low self-esteem. View quote
Debra Wilson
Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce. View quote
Gavin Newsom
We all know that girls who compete in sports perform better in school, are physically healthier and have a stronger self-esteem. View quote
Louise Slaughter
Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless. (Scott Hamilton)
Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival. View quote
Martha Gellhorn
What is greatness? I will answer: it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose, self-esteem. View quote
Ayn Rand
Honor is self-esteem made visible in action. View quote
Ayn Rand
Conscience: self-esteem with a halo. View quote
Irving Layton
I was the worst, most sickly kid of all – 30 pounds underweight. The girls used to beat me up. Actually I was a mean kid, early on because I had no self-esteem. View quote
Jack LaLanne
Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtue, not vices. It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear. View quote
Alan Greenspan
Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression. View quote
Theodore Kaczynski
What men call friendship is only social intercourse, an exchange of favours and good offices; it comes down to a commercial dealing in which self-esteem always expects to profit. View quote
André Maurois
Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it. View quote
Gloria Steinem
The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves. If an individual is not successful in emotionally crippling himself, he can count on patriarchal men to enact rituals of power that will assault his self-esteem. (Bell hooks)
People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities. View quote
Bell hooks
Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on. View quote
Maxwell Maltz
In fact, at this point in history, the most radical, pervasive, and earth-shaking transformation would occur simply if everybody truly evolved to a mature, rational, and responsible ego, capable of freely participating in the open exchange of mutual self-esteem. There is the 'edge of history.' There would be a real New Age. View quote
Ken Wilber
I do not care to listen; obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise. View quote
Jack Vance