You can't move mountains by whispering at them.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
The process of setting a goal, learning the necessary steps to achieve it, and giving it your best until you've mastered it will generate high self-esteem and pride. Those are feelings associated with joy.
The highest in God's esteem are the lowest in their own.
Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.
After my second-to-last record, 'The Greatest', I had gone on tour for a while, and I didn't play an instrument for about five years. And I got kind of - it's not self-esteem or whatever, or anger toward myself - but disappointed in myself that I hadn't been challenging myself to learn musically.
The most important key to the permanent enhancement of self esteem is the practice of positive inner-talk.
No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation.
Accept that you are enough. You don't need to be anything that you are not.
I think people who come from abuse andor people who have mental illnesses, have terrible self-esteem problems.
You may not have a physical impairment, but you have things, whether it's finances, self-esteem, it doesn't matter. It's cut from the same cloth.
Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God's curriculum.
Since the State thrives on what it expropriates, the general decline in production that it induces by its avarice foretells its own doom. Its source of income dries up. Thus, in pulling Society down it pulls itself down. Its ultimate collapse is usually occasioned by a disastrous war, but preceding that event is a history of increasing and discouraging levies on the marketplace, causing a decline in the aspirations, hopes, and self-esteem of its victims.
The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams from generation to generation. We all bear the cost of keeping it running. Illiteracy is its linchpin.
Some think the only way to get even, to get attention or advantage, or to win is to bash people. This kind of behavior is never appropriate. Oftentimes character and reputation and almost always self-esteem are destroyed under the hammer of this vicious practice.
Go where you are wanted and stray from where you aren't. Surround yourself with positive people and environments.
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself.
The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
Remind yourself that you are supported, that you are not going it alone upon this Earth. Dwell in the company of your Non-Physical Teachers and Guides.
When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too.