Positive Self Quotes:

A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.

- Joyce Brothers

source: "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang (p. 43), 2006.

topic: Positive, Inspiring, Strong, Inspirational Self Confidence, Human Behavior

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

source: Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Leadership, Empowering Women, Improve Self Esteem

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

- Horace

topic: Inspirational, Mind, Power And Control, Inspirational Weight, Inspirational Weight Loss

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

- William James

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Social Good, Make Me Feel Better

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

topic: Change, Grief, Learning, Way In Life, Empowering Women

If you're going through hell, keep going.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Positive, Hell, Keep Going, Way In Life, Pushing On

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

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Motivational, Value Of Life, Managing Time

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Interesting Life, Planting Seeds

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

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Inspiration And Life, Inspiration And Motivation

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Powerful, Deepest Fear, Our Deepest Fear, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

- Marianne Williamson

source: A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Encouraging, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before.

- Edwin Bailey Elliott

topic: Life, Being Yourself, Self Esteem, Inspirations Being Yourself, Inspiring Yourself

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

- Arthur Ashe

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Improve Self Esteem, Inspirational Self Esteem

If you think you can't, you're right.

- Carol Bartz

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Smart, Thought Of The Day, Best Success

A positive self image and healthy self esteem is based on approval, acceptance and recognition from others; but also upon actual accomplishments, achievements and success upon the realistic self confidence which ensues.

- Abraham Maslow

topic: Self Esteem, Self Confidence, Acceptance, Positive Self, Positive Self Image

In our own lives, having a mind-set of expecting to win increases our odds of winning. It helps us get better results. And better results help us increase our credibility and self-confidence, which leads to more positive self-expectancy, and more winning - and the upward cycle continues. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

- Stephen Covey

source: Stephen R. Covey, Rebecca R. Merrill (2008). “The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

topic: Motivational, Self Confidence, Winning, Positive Self, Self Fulfilling Prophecy

Total, unconditional acceptance of yourself is the first step in building a positive self-image.

- Nido R Qubein

topic: Acceptance, Self, Firsts, Positive Self, Positive Self Image

We make butterflies by feeding caterpillars, not by trying to paste wings on them. Kids need to like themselves the way they are, and we can help them develop a positive self-image.

- Louise Hart

topic: Children, Butterfly, Kids, Positive Self, Positive Self Image

Your worst enemies are made when you ignore people. Those boys in America who shot dead classmates recently, didn't do that because they woke up with a positive self image that morning and then felt like slaughtering their friends.

- Tori Amos

topic: Morning, Ignorance, Boys, Positive Self, Positive Self Image

Action eradicates fear. No matter what you fear,--- positive, self-affirming action can diminish or completely cancel that which you are fearful of.

- Mark Victor Hansen

source: FaceBook post by Mark Victor Hansen from Sep 04, 2013

topic: Self, Matter, Action, Positive Change, Affirmative

I think that giving mindless praise is ridiculous. But I understand why parents do it. They want their kids to feel good about themselves. But parents are never going to teach their children true, positive self esteem by praising everything they do.

- Rosalind Wiseman

source: "Queen Bee Moms & Kingpin Dads". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. March 29, 2006.

topic: Children, Self Esteem, Kids, Positive Self

Positive self-expectancy is the first, most outwardly identifiable quality of a top-achieving, winning human being. Positive self-expectancy is pure and simple optimism: real enthusiasm for everything you do... [while] expecting the most favorable result from your own actions. There never was a winner who didn't expect to win in advance. Winners understand that life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. And they know that you usually get what you expect in the long run.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Running, Real, Winning, Positive Self, Self Fulfilling Prophecy

To be born again means that we must be changed from a negative to a positive self-image - from inferiority to self-esteem, from fear to love, from doubt to trust.

- Robert H. Schuller

topic: Self Esteem, Mean, Doubt, Positive Self, Positive Self Image

Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe... Our love of art is often quite temporary, dependent upon our moods, and our love of art is subservient to our demand for a positive self image. How we look at art should account for those imperfections and work around them. Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader. Maybe we think we are supposed to like tough books, but are we? Who says? Many writers (and art museums) produce for quite a small subsample of the... public.

- Tyler Cowen

source: Tyler Cowen (2008). “Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Den tist”, p.41, Penguin

topic: Art, Believe, Book, Subservient, Positive Self

A positive self-image has little relationship to our material circumstances.

- Ezra Taft Benson

source: Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

topic: Self, Littles, Circumstances, Positive Self, Positive Self Image

To attain "success" without attaining positive self-esteem is to be condemned to feeling like an imposter anxiously awaiting exposure.

- Nathaniel Branden

topic: Self Esteem, Feelings, Exposure, Imposter, Positive Self

I do not have a genetically "gifted" body. I have to work hard everyday and I am always working on maintaining a positive self image.

- Kim Lyons

source: Source: www.glamour.com

topic: Hard Work, Self, Everyday, Positive Self, Positive Self Image

The single most outwardly identifiable trait demonstrated by a winning human being is that of positive self-expectation- which is pure and simple optimism.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Winning, Simple, Self, Positive Self

The power of a positive self-image plays a vital role in experiencing perfect health.

- Deepak Chopra

source: Twitter post from Jan 2, 2015

topic: Self, Play, Perfect, Positive Self, Positive Self Image

Change your thoughts, change your life. —LAO TZU When I was fighting depression, I remember hearing this expression and not understanding it at first. When I decided to implement it in my life, a whole new world opened up for me. Change the negative, self-loathing thoughts to positive, self-affirming ones. When you’re positive about yourself and everything around you, you begin to see the world in a different light. Your life today is what you make of it. Goal: Be mindful of the tone of your thoughts.

- Demi Lovato

source: Demi Lovato (2013). “Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year”, p.7, Macmillan

topic: Fighting, Light, Self, Self Loathing, Lao Tzu

Taking possession of your positive self will put you on the success beam that you may ride triumphantly to whatever heights of achievement you desire.

- Napoleon Hill

source: Napoleon Hill (1993). “Napoleon Hill's a Year of Growing Rich: 52 Steps to Achieving Life's Rewards”, p.77, Penguin

topic: Self, Achievement, Desire, Positive Self

Positive self-direction is the action plan that all winners in life use to turn imagination into reality, fantasy into fact, and dreams into actual goals.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Dream, Reality, Self, Winners In Life, Positive Self

Positive self-esteem operates as, in effect, the immune system of the consciousness, providing resistance, strength, and a capacity for regeneration. When self-esteem is low, our resilience in the face of life's adversities is diminished. We crumble before vicissitudes that a healthier sense of self could vanquish. We tend to be more influenced by the desire to avoid pain than to experience joy. Negatives have more power over us than positives.

- Nathaniel Branden

source: Nathaniel Branden (1992). “Power of Self Esteem”

topic: Pain, Self Esteem, Adversity, Vanquish, Positive Self

Brain wave tests prove that when we use positive words, our "feel good" hormones flow. Positive self-talk releases endorphins and serotonin in our brain, which then flow throughout our body, making us feel good. These neurotransmitters stop flowing when we use negative words.

- Ruth Fishel

topic: Self, Feel Good, Brain, Negative Words, Self Talk

Positive self-esteem is the quality of simply saying thank you and accepting any value that is attributed to you by others.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Self Esteem, Quality, Accepting, Positive Self