Self Concept Quotes:

Act as if you are the person you want to be.

- Bernie Siegel

topic: Want, Self Concept, Persons

A person's self-concept is the core of his personality.

- Joyce Brothers

topic: Self, Personality, Human Behavior, Positive Self Image, Self Concept

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

- Malcolm Forbes

topic: Positive, Strength, People, Importunate, Improve Self Esteem

Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

- Harvey Fierstein

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Positive, Individuality, Theatre, Live For Yourself, Just Being You

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

Your subconscious mind makes all your words and actions fit a pattern consistent with your self-concept and your innermost beliefs about yourself.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Self, Mind, Patterns, Words And Actions, Self Concept

The greatest barrier to achievement and success is not lack of talent or ability but rather the feeling that achievement and success, above a certain level, are outside our self-concept-our image of who we are and what is appropriate to us.

- Nathaniel Branden

source: Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

topic: Self, Achievement, Feelings, Self Concept

My definition of success: When your core values and self-concept are in harmony with your daily actions and behaviors.

- John Spence

topic: Thinking, Self, Definitions, Core Values, Definition Of Success

Look to see what you are doing today. Is this how you choose to define yourself? Look to see what you are thinking today. Is this what you wish to create?

- Neale Donald Walsch

topic: Thinking, Wish, Today, Define Yourself, Self Concept

Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.

- Maxwell Maltz

topic: Inspirational, Self Esteem, Love Yourself, Improve Self Esteem, Inspirational Self Confidence

It is that the individual has within him or herself vast resources for self-understanding, for altering the self-concept basic attitudes, and his or her self-directed behavior - and that these resources can be tapped if only a definable climate of facilitative psychological attitudes can be provided

- Carl Rogers

topic: Attitude, Self, Understanding, Self Concept, Self Understanding

We have a mental block inside us that stops us from earning more than we think we are worth. If we want to earn more in reality, we have to upgrade our self-concept.

- Brian Tracy

topic: Block, Reality, Thinking, Self Concept

One of the main jobs of conciousness is to keep our life tied together into a coherent story, a self-concept. It does this by generating explanations of behaviors on the basis of our self image, images, memories of the past, expectations of the future, the present social situation, and the physical environment in which behavior is produced.

- Joseph E. LeDoux

topic: Jobs, Memories, Past, Past Memories, Self Concept

Imagination builds the image of the self, and thought then functions within its shadows. From this self-concept grows the conflict between what is and what should be, the conflict in duality.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

source: Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living”, p.230, M-y books ltd

topic: Self Esteem, Imagination, Shadow, Self Concept

We have each had the experience of others reacting to us; often there seems to be no logic to it. But in fact, people do pick up on our subtle energy, and even if they can't see it or put it into words, they feel it and, subliminally, they know. They vote yes, no or maybe according to the qualities and strength of the energy we project.

- Stuart Wilde

topic: People, Quality, Energy, Self Concept

The biographer who writes the life of his subjects self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.

- Leon Edel

topic: Writing, Self, House, Self Concept, Biographers

I want to be the best that I can be. I want to do and have and live in a way that is in harmony with my idea of the greatest goodness. I want to harmonize physically here in this body with that which I believe to be the best, or the good way, of life. If you will make those statements, and then do not take action unless you feel good, you will always be moving upon the path in harmony with your idea of that which is good.

- Esther Hicks

source: Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2010). “Money, and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Wealth, Health, and Happiness: Easyread Large Edition”, p.113, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Believe, Moving, Ideas, Self Concept

There are many types of emotional abuse but most is done in an attempt to control or subjugate another person. Emotional abuse is like brainwashing in that it systematically wears away at the victim's self-confidence, sense of self, trust in her perceptions and self-concept.

- Beverly Engel

source: "Emotionally Abused Women". Online Chat, www.healthyplace.com.

topic: Self Confidence, Emotional, Perception, Emotional Abuse, Brainwashing

Books seek us out. They slip themselves into our hands just at the time we are ready for a new self-concept.

- Hugh Prather

topic: Book, Self, Hands, Self Concept, New Self

Through dance, people meet demons, ward off death, shake off sin and evil, come to terms with life crises, mediate paradoxes, resolve conflict, revitalize the past to re-create the present, enhance their self-concept and body image, attract attention, assert themselves, confront the strong, and persuade others to change their ways.

- Judith Lynne Hanna

source: Judith Lynne Hanna (2006). “Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress”, p.217, Rowman Altamira

topic: Strong, Past, Self, Life Crisis, Self Concept

How anybody dresses is indicative of his self-concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either.

- S. I. Hayakawa

topic: Death, Dirty, Self, Ragged, Tidying Up

How can you develop a self-concept linked to your untapped potential? First, you can decide on the kind of life you would like to lead in ten or fifteen years. This will give you a standard for making decisions about current activities and will reduce the inclination to compare yourself unfavorably to others. Learn to ask, "How would I handle this situation were I the person I hope to become?" And then take action in line with your vision.

- Ari Kiev

topic: Self, Years, Giving, Untapped Potential, Self Concept

Someone who thinks well of himself is said to have a healthy self-concept and is envied. Someone who thinks well of his country is called a patriot and is applauded. But someone who thinks well of his species is regarded as hopelessly naïve and is dismissed.

- Alfie Kohn

topic: Country, Thinking, Self, Self Concept

Great parts of our economy are directly dependent upon women having a weak self-concept. A multi-billion dollar fashion-cosmetic industry testifies to the validity of this approach. A woman who does not know who she is can be sold anything.

- Gabrielle Burton

source: Gabrielle Burton (1972). “I'm Running Away from Home, But I'm Not Allowed to Cross the Street: A Primer of Women's Liberation”

topic: Confidence, Fashion, Self, Self Concept

In contrast to what the women have been told (that they are dumb and ugly) and how they have been controlled with confined strictures, the dance class is a safe place in which the women have choices and can improve their self-concept.

- Judith Lynne Hanna

source: Judith Lynne Hanna (2006). “Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress”, p.198, Rowman Altamira

topic: Self, Class, Choices, Self Concept

What passes for education, culture or maturity in most minds is merely how individuals want to think of themselves, a contrived egocentric self-concept, not actual and effective principles and values. This is what is known in the cliche as the "veneer" of civilization.

- Kenny Smith

topic: Maturity, Thinking, Self, Veneer, Principles And Values

In the quiet moments of your day, what do you think and do? When you are with your Self and no one else, how does life proceed for you? Who are you when you are alone? Self-creation is a Holy Experience. It is sacred. It is you, deciding Who You Are.

- Neale Donald Walsch

topic: Thinking, Quiet, Moments, Quiet Moments, Self Concept

The joke of it all is that you are looking from your true nature right now without knowing it. If you would stop being fascinated with the contents of your mind, you would experience what I am saying. Feel your way into what I am saying rather than thinking about it. Only a self-concept looks and longs for God. Drop your self-concept and there is only God meeting God. Enlightenment is the restoration of cosmic humor.

- Adyashanti

topic: Thinking, Self, Knowing, Self Concept

Here's a memonic device that I feel teaches how we can properly cope with failure. Forget about your failures; don't dwell on past mistakes Anticipate failure; realize that we all make mistakes. Intensity in everything you do; never be a failure for lack of effort. Learn from your mistakes; don't repeat previous errors. Understand why you failed; diagnose your mistakes so as to not repeat them. Respond, don't react to errors; responding corrects mistakes while reacting magnifies them. Elevate your self-concept. It's OK to fail, everyone does; now how are you going to deal with the failure

- Steve Largent

topic: Leadership, Sports, Mistake, Past Mistakes, Self Concept

If "man who supports his family, at all costs, even his own happiness" is Who You Are, then love your work, because it is facilitating your creation of a living statement of Self. If "woman who works at job she hates in order to meet responsibilities as she sees them" is Who You Are, then love, love, love your job, for it totally supports your Self image, your Self concept. Everyone can love everything the moment they understand what they are doing, and why. No one does anything he doesn't want to do.

- Neale Donald Walsch

source: "Conversations with God". Book by Neale Donald Walsch, 1995.

topic: Inspirational, Religious, Jobs, Love Your Job, Love Your Work

The 1980's witnessed a new dance genre in New York City and Los Angeles. Slam Dancing was perhaps a way for adolescent males to deal with the stressors of maturation, aggressive personal feelings, and violence in the society at large. Through dancing, the youths expressed raw power and rage while achieving euphoria, enhanced self-concept, and a healthy fatigue.

- Judith Lynne Hanna

source: Judith Lynne Hanna (2006). “Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress”, p.175, Rowman Altamira

topic: New York, Cities, Self, Stressors, Euphoria