SELFESTEEM QUOTES
“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
― August Wilson
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
― Sharon Salzberg
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself.”
― Harvey Fierstein
“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”
― Marilyn Monroe
“The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”
― Mark Twain
“It’s not my responsibility to be beautiful. I’m not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.”
― Warsan Shire
“When you’re different, sometimes you don’t see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn’t.”
― Jodi Picoult,
“You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
― Sharon Salzberg
“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
― Michel de Montaigne
“It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.”
― John Joseph Powell
“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.”
― C.G. Jung
“There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn’t matter anymore.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson
“One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.”
― Michael J. Fox
“Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others– it only changes yours.”
“The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.”
― Ayn Rand,
“Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.”
― Shannon L. Alder
“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.”
― Frederick Douglass
“Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, “What else could this mean?”
― Shannon L. Alder
“One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.”
― Shannon L. Alder
“I’m Dylan. I’m so cool. I want to date myself, but I don’t know how! You want to date me instead? You’re so lucky!”
― Rick Riordan
“I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson
“Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.”
― M. Scott Peck
“I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”
― Edward Everett Hale
“Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem. We cannot draw to ourselves more than we think we are worth.”
― Iyanla Vanzant
“Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.”
― Bernard Branson
“Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.”
― Naomi Wolf,
“How would your life be different if…You stopped allowing other people to dilute or poison your day with their words or opinions? Let today be the day…You stand strong in the truth of your beauty and journey through your day without attachment to the validation of others.”
― Steve Maraboli
“There will always be someone willing to hurt you, put you down, gossip about you, belittle your accomplishments and judge your soul. It is a fact that we all must face. However, if you realize that God is a best friend that stands beside you when others cast stones you will never be afraid, never feel worthless and never feel alone.”
― Shannon Alder
“As long as you look for someone else to validate who you are by seeking their approval, you are setting yourself up for disaster. You have to be whole and complete in yourself. No one can give you that. You have to know who you are – what others say is irrelevant.”
― Nic Sheff
“For once, you believed in yourself. You believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world.”
― Sarah Dessen
“Staying silent is like a slow growing cancer to the soul and a trait of a true coward. There is nothing intelligent about not standing up for yourself. You may not win every battle. However, everyone will at least know what you stood for—YOU.”
― Shannon L. Alder
“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”
― Norman Vincent Peale
“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.”
― Henry Ford
“Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.”
― Andre Gide
“I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.”
― Henry James
“Self pity becomes your oxygen. But you learned to breathe it without a gasp. So, nobody even notices you’re hurting.”
― Paul Monette
“Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings.”
― Dr. Asa Don Brown
“Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?”
― Brigham Young
“Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men’s eyes when deciding what provokes it.”
― Naomi Wolf,
“Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.”
― Dr Roopleen
“I used to be self conscious about my height, but then I thought, fuck that, I’m Harry Potter.”
― Daniel Radcliffe
Thanks for reading.