None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
The image the Republicans have of themselves needs the image they have of the Democrats to bring it into sharp focus. The Democrats are plainly a disreputable crowd; the Republicans, by contrast, are men of standing and sobriety. Many a middle-class American in many a small town has had to explain painfully why he chose to be a Democrat. No middle-class American need feel uneasy as a Republican. Even when he is a minority--for example, among the heathen on a college campus--he can, like any white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant, warm himself before his little fire of self-esteem.
The respect you give others is a dramatic reflection of the respect you give yourself.
One cannot pay the price of self-respect.
Whenever you complete a task of any size or importance, you feel a surge of energy, enthusiasm, and self-esteem. The more important the completed task, the happier, more confident, and more powerful you feel about yourself and your world.
Parents who engage in this kind of [conscious] parenting understand the power of being present being mindful to take the time to build connection understanding that this foundation is the bedrock of all later self-worth, self-esteem and self-actualization.
Just trying to do something - just being there, showing up - is how we get braver. Self-esteem is about doing.
Slobodan Milosevic was just as smart as a five-year-old. Five-year-olds have an uncanny way of getting into your psyche, your self-esteem.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Self-esteem creates natural highs. Knowing that you're lovable helps you to love more. Knowing that you're important helps you to make a difference to to others. Knowing that you are capable empowers you to create more. Knowing that you're valuable and that you have a special place in the universe is a serene spiritual joy in itself.
If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
We should praise the qualities we would like to see in others, declare that others possess them already, and then watch how quickly these persons will respond.
I think I always had joie de vivre. But I had pretty bad self-esteem growing up and much of my adult life.
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.
There is only one source of authentic self-confidence: reason.
Children build self-esteem by doing things that are hard and learning what works.
About all you can do in life is be who you are.
A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.