Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable, and you are worth the effort.
The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
We can never do the right thing as long as we are out to please someone else.
The Santa myth is one of the most effective means ever devised for intimidating children, eroding their self- esteem, twisting their behavior, warping their values, and slowing their development of critical thinking skills.
Be YOU. Don't be someone else. YOU are a unique individual. Be proud. . . rock it loud.
There is something that you can do better than anyone else in the whole world.
Not every article in every magazine or newspaper is meant to be a valentine card addressed to every reader's self-esteem.
Everyone is walking around with these self doubts, so there's something reassuring about that. And self-doubt in one or a few areas doesn't mean that you have generally low self-esteem. And you have the power to get yourself out of feeling that way.
Self-esteem does not come from surrounding yourself with people and things that seem to increase your value. Real self-esteem is an integration of an inner-value with things in the world around you.
Never dull your shine for somebody else.
A feeling of continuous growth is a wonderful source of motivation and self confidence.
Self-esteem is not based on itself.
As you grow in self-esteem, your face, manner, way of talking and moving will tend naturally to project the pleasure you take in being alive.
Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them. Love is the most impregnable refuge of self-esteem, and we hate the eye that reaches to our nakedness. Edith Wharton ~ The Touchstone
One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher.
I noticed there were so many people, especially women, who would come up to me having recognized me from TV and say, 'I heard you were a math person, why math? Oh my gosh, I could never do math!' I could just see their self-esteem crumbling; I thought that was silly, so I wanted to make math more friendly and accessible.
We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem.
Children build self-esteem by doing things that are hard and learning what works.
Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.
I always thought that people told you that you're beautiful-that this was a title that was bestowed upon you. [. . . ] I think that it's time to take this power into our own hands and to say, "You know what? I'm beautiful. I just am. And that's my light. I'm just a beautiful woman. "