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Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
Sep 18, 2025
Self-esteem is as necessary to the spirit as food is to the body.
Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.
I never loved another person the way I loved myself.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
I don't entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I'm me. God knows, I'm me.
Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.
If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.
The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth.
Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
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.
People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
Look the world straight in the eye.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.
Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?
We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
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.
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.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough.
Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
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.
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
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.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
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.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too.