A woman should always be more concerned with standing up for what is right than making sure everyone 'likes' her.
The biggest thing you can give a kid is self-esteem, so that they're not shy to do different things.
Stop spending so much time trying to prove what you already know to people who don't really matter. It just makes you look insecure and lacking self-confidence.
Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.
I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.
All these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown.
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Most of our stress and suffering come not from events, but from our thoughts. Reframe from negative thoughts, and stress subsides.
Stop asking for directions so much. Assuming that you're in a safe environment, pay attention and figure things out for yourself. Have the nerve to take a wrong turn now and then. You'll develop better working instincts and have more self-esteem too.
After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is.
Someone once said that the most important knowledge is knowledge of our own ignorance. Our schools are depriving millions of students of that kind of knowledge by promoting "self-esteem" and encouraging them to have opinions on things of which they are grossly ignorant, if not misinformed.
Who you are is of greater importance than what you do.
Children build self-esteem by doing things that are hard and learning what works.
When my mother makes out her income tax return every year, under occupation she writes, eroding my daughter's self-esteem.
Parents still have primary responsibility for raising children, but they must have the power to do so in ways consistent with their children's needs and their own values. . . . We must address ourselves less to the criticism and reform of parents themselves than to the criticism and reform of the institutions that sap their self-esteem and power.
Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But there are a number of occasions when it suits him to pose as a sort of Candide: naive, and ill-prepared for and easily unhorsed by events. No doubt this pose costs him something in point of self-esteem. It is a pose, furthermore, which he often adopts at precisely the time when the record shows him to be knowledgeable, and when knowledge or foreknowledge would also confront him with charges of responsibility or complicity.
And I can't even go to the grocery store without some ones that's clean and a shirt with a teamIt seems we living the American dream but people highest up got the lowest self esteemThe prettiest people do the ugliest things for the road to riches and diamond rings.
You don't have to do anything especially worthy to create or deserve self-esteem; all you have to do is turn off that critical, haranguing, inner voice.
Above all things, reverence yourself.
I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.
