Quotes of: Self-esteem Keyword

Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life or joys, But the vast shipwreck of my life’s esteems; Even the dearest that I loved the best Are strange—nay, rather, stranger tha...

"I Am": The Selected Poetry of John Clare

While I share his esteem, dear sir, I wish to advise that in my opinion it would not detract from your bravery to bob your head when being shot at. Duck, dodge, sidestep, or preferably hide behind a rock. I promise I won't think the less of you!" -Be...

Love in the Afternoon

If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all o...

Abraham Lincoln

It is the very use of coercion, positive or negative, that breaks or deadens the spirit, which is the source of motivation.

Don't Be Nice, Be Real: Balancing Passion for Self with Compassion for Others

I have a body, but I am not my body. I have a face, but I am not my face.

Don't Give It Away!: A Workbook of Self-Awareness and Self-Affirmations for Young Women

Once you feel nice about yourself, you have planted the first seed to develop self-confidence.

Develop Jedi Self-Confidence: Unleash the Force within You

I know that love is about power, too. Who gives, who takes. Who is willing to risk showing their true self.

Eona: The Last Dragoneye

Depression means self-loathing, self-disgust, and the kind of emotional numbness that feels like psychic death.

Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life

Self-knowledge is better than self-control any day," Raquel said firmly. "And I know myself well enough to know how I act around cookies.

Evernight

Resistance, in the form of opposition or lack of support from others is often a sign telling you to move forward and on to bigger and better things.

Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women

You are your own soul mate, so love and treat yourself in the same way you would your life partner.

Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women

There was a way in which my grandmother's true self was not these guests' business; no one's true self was the business of more than a very small number of family members or close friends.

American Wife

The surgeons' market is imaginary, since there is nothing wrong with women's faces or bodies that social change won't cure; so the surgeons depend for their income on warping female self-perception and multiplying female self-hatred.

The Beauty Myth

I actually feel quite self-indulgent at the moment, telling you all about me, me, me. (...) On the other hand, you're a human -you should understand self obsession.

The Book Thief

Until the ego dissolves or evolves to become one with our true self, we remain slaves of our own egos.

The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership

Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.

Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

Man is like an island set in isolation in a fathomless sea enveloped by darkness, saying that the loneliness his self knows is so utterly absolute because even he knows not his self completely.

Islam and Secularism

I believe in mess, tears, pain, self-abasement, loss of self-respect, nakedness. Not caring doesn’t seem much different from not loving.

The Real Thing: A Play

Her behaviors turn her psychic pain, which she fears is not legitimate, into physical pain, which is indisputably real".

Sensing the Self: Women's Recovery from Bulimia

Don't think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine.

Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

They implicitly trust that their thoughts, beliefs, and feelings are their own, and fail to recognize that they may be “channeling” someone else’s thoughts and feelings.

The Self Under Siege: A Therapeutic Model for Differentiation