Self Esteem And Confidence Quotes:

Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: World, Inaugural Speech, Discovering Yourself, Inspirational Beauty, Sensitive Person

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

topic: Self Esteem, Self Confidence, Thinking, Inspiring Self Esteem, Old Self

We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.

- Roderick Thorp

source: Roderick Thorp (2014). “Rainbow Drive”, p.68, Open Road Media

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship, Inspiring Self Esteem, My Self Worth

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

- William James

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

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

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Inspirational, Life, Trust, Improve Self Esteem, Live For Yourself

Wouldn't it be powerful if you fell in love with yourself so deeply that you would do just about anything if you knew it would make you happy? This is precisely how much life loves you and wants you to nurture yourself. The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out.

- Alan Cohen

topic: Confidence, Powerful, Love You, Inspirational Self Esteem, Building Confidence

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

- Anna Freud

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Confidence, Inspirational Self Confidence, Inspirational Self Esteem

Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

- Laozi

topic: Inspirational, Confidence, Self Esteem, Inspiring Self Esteem, Old Self

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

- William James

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Relationship, My Self Worth, Love And Appreciation

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Self Esteem, Forget, True Self, Improve Self Esteem, Inspirational Self Confidence

I had to grow to love my body. I did not have a good self-image at first. Finally it occurred to me, I'm either going to love me or hate me. And I chose to love myself. Then everything kind of sprung from there. Things that I thought weren't attractive became sexy. Confidence makes you sexy.

- Queen Latifah

topic: Beauty, Sexy, Hate, Love Me Or Hate Me, Inspirational Self Esteem

It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Confidence, Adventure, Mind, Improve Self Esteem, Inspirational Confidence

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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

Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people have worries. They just don't let these feelings stop them.

- T. Harv Eker

topic: Confidence, Successful, Worry, Confidence Boosting, Raise Self Esteem

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

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

- Golda Meir

topic: Motivational, Happiness, Being Happy, Live For Yourself, Inner Life

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

- Nelson Mandela

topic: Inspirational, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech, Individual Expression, Insecure People

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

- Helen Keller

source: "Optimism". Essay by Helen Keller, 1903.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Improve Self Esteem, Inspirational Achievement

You can have anything you want

- Jenifer Lewis

topic: Want, Eldest, Inspirational Self Confidence, Inspirational Success Failure, Singleness

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

- Marianne Williamson

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

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

- Helen Keller

topic: Inspirational, Graduation, Confidence, Inspirational Addiction Recovery, Inspirational Confidence

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

- Lucille Ball

topic: Love, Inspirational, Relationship, Knowing Love, Inspirational True Love

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

- Vincent Van Gogh

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Inner Voice, Improve Self Esteem

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.

- Richard Bach

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Success, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Inspirational Self Esteem

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

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Confidence, Children, Insecure, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

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

To be beautiful means to be yourself.You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. When you are born a lotus flower, be a beautiful lotus flower, don't try to be a magnolia flower. If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life. True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself.

- Nhat Hanh

topic: Beautiful, Being Yourself, Lying, Understanding Yourself, Self Healing

I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.

- Johnny Depp

topic: Inspirational, Being Yourself, Self Esteem, Inspiring Self Esteem, Being Weird

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Inspirational Confidence, Inspirational Courage

Never dull your shine for somebody else.

- Tyra Banks

source: FaceBook post by Tyra Banks from Aug 30, 2011

topic: Confidence, Being Yourself, Self Esteem, Confidence In Yourself, Love Your Self

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Confidence, Children, Fear, Inaugural Speech, Discovering Yourself

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Inspiring, Confidence, Children, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

- Mark Twain

topic: Confidence, Good Life, Inspirational Life, Inspiring Self Esteem, Building Confidence

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

- Paul Tillich

source: Paul Tillich, F. Forrester Church (1999). “The Essential Tillich”, p.174, University of Chicago Press

topic: Positive, Confidence, Courage, Just Believe In Yourself, Inspirational Confidence

You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.

- Diane von Furstenberg

topic: Inspirational, Self Esteem, Love Yourself, Inspiring Self Esteem, Love Acceptance

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

- Margaret Thatcher

topic: Love, Inspirational, Motivational, Personal Power, Successful Women

Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

- Benjamin Spock

source: The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care ch. 1 (1946)

topic: Family, Trust, Encouraging, Trust Your Instincts, Inspirational Confidence

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

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

- Sally Field

topic: Confidence, Self Esteem, Love Yourself, Judging Myself, Loving Myself

Ram Dass

- Ram Dass

source: Ram Dass (2013). “Polishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart”, p.80, Sounds True

topic: Art, Pain, Unbearable, Transcending, Quaker

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

- Wayne Dyer

source: "Dr. Wayne Dyer Lives On" by Stephanie Seibel, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2015.

topic: Confidence, Lonely, Clever, Improve Self Esteem, Inspirational Confidence

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

- Louisa May Alcott

source: J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.1082, e-artnow

topic: Inspirational, Confidence, Wisdom, Storms Of Life, Tall Ships

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

- Harvey Fierstein

topic: Beautiful, Being Yourself, Freedom, Live For Yourself, Definition Of Beauty

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