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Self-esteem is confidence in your own ability and value

• Self-esteem: Confidence in one’s own worth or abilities; self-respect. Oxford Dictionary
• Self esteem: Belief and confidence in your own ability and value. Cambridge Dictionary
• Self esteem: Pride in oneself; self-respect. American Heritage Dictionary
• Self-confidence,  Self-worth,  Self-respect,  Self-love,  Self-acceptance,  Pride,  Self-belief

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Self-esteem is the reputation you have with yourself

• Your self-esteem, the core of your personality, has been defined by psychologist Nathaniel Branden as “the reputation you have with yourself.” Brian Tracy
• Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves. Nathaniel Branden
• The self-concept is what we think about the self; self-esteem, is the positive or negative evaluations of the self, as in how we feel about it. Smith and Mackie
• Self-esteem is the experience of being competent to cope with the basic challenges of life and being worthy of happiness. Nathaniel Branden
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Self-esteem is a very important factor for a fulfilling life

• Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in love, in sex, in parenting, in every important aspect of existence – and how high he or she is likely to rise. The reputation you have with yourself – your self- esteem – is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life. Nathaniel Branden
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Self-esteem strongly influences success and achievement

• Of all the judgments you make in life, none is as important as the one you make about yourself. The difference between low self- esteem and high self-esteem is the difference between passivity and action, between failure and success. Nathaniel Branden
• A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success. Dr. Joyce Brothers
• Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause. Nathaniel Branden
• Success,  Achievement

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Self-esteem is essential for mental health and happiness

• Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness. Louise Hart
• Self-esteem is as necessary to the spirit as food is to the body. Maxwell Maltz
• To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self- esteem. Nathaniel Branden
• Having a low opinion of yourself is not “modesty”. It’s self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not “egotism”. It’s a necessary precondition to happiness and success. Bobbe Sommer
• Happiness does not come in large incomes or the most exotic home, it comes in small doses of a great self-esteem which can be built upon the strengths of an individual. Nicholas A. McGirr
• Health,  Happiness

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Your worth in the world depends on the worth you put on yourself

• Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We cannot outperform our level of self- esteem. We cannot draw to ourselves more than we think we are worth. Iyanla Vanzant
• Our choices in life are made according to our sense of our own worth. Kaylan Pickford
• A person’s worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves. Jean De La Bruyere
• The price tag that you put on your soul will determine the people and circumstances in which you find yourself. Shannon L. Alder
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Your self-esteem greatly effects your relationships and how you treat others

• The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others. Sonya Friedman
• The first step toward being loved is learning to love what you see when you look in the mirror. Tadahiko Nagao
• There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity. Nathaniel Branden
• For us to regard others as worthy, we have to begin by regarding ourselves as worthy. Stephen Richards
• He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them. Johnson
• The confidence which we have in ourselves gives birth to much of that which we have in others. Francois De La Rochefoucauld
• If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you’ll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren’t even giving to yourself. Barbara De Angelis
• Principles for healthy relationships

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Self-esteem brings peace

• Building a genuine and solid sense of self-esteem can go a long way towards helping to overcome social anxiety. Amanda Harvey
• Whatever happens, my self-worth will survive. I make myself safe. Neil Fiore
• Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have. Doris Mortman
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Self-esteem lets you worry less what people think of you …

• Self-esteem comes from the self, not from acquisitions and approval. Wayne Dyer
• When you acquire enough inner peace and feel really positive about yourself, it’s almost impossible for you to be controlled and manipulated by anybody else. Wayne Dyer
• Get to know your true self. When you are truly comfortable in your own skin, not everyone will like you, but you won’t care about it one bit.  Marc and Angel Chernoff
• When you learn to embrace your self with a sense of appreciation and affection, you begin to glimpse the goodness and light that is in you and gradually you will realize that you are worthy of respect from yourself. When you recognize your limits, but still embrace your life with affection and graciousness, the sense of inner dignity begins to grow. You become freer and less dependent on the affirmation of outer voices and less troubled by the negativity of others.  John O’Donohue
• The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people. Jamie Lee Curtis
• Only when we do not fully like or love ourselves are we bothered when someone else does not like us… Robert Beno
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.. for true self-esteem comes from within, not from a dependence on the validation and approval of others

• As long as you look for someone else to validate who you are by seeking their approval, you are setting yourself up for disaster. You have to be whole and complete in yourself. No one can give you that. You have to know who you are – what others say is irrelevant. Nic Sheff
• Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her. Lao Tzu
• It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes. Sally Field
• It’s not your job to like me. It’s mine. Byron Katie
• Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don’t base your self-esteem on their opinions. Harvey Mackay
• Self-esteem comes from the self, not from acquisitions and approval. Wayne Dyer
• Self-worth cannot be verified by others. You are worthy because you say it is so. If you depend on others for your value it is other- worth. Wayne Dyer
• The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off. Robert Hand
• The more you surrender to the fear of someone’s disapproval, the more you lose face in your own eyes, and the more desperate you become for someone’s approval. Within you is a void that should have been filled by self-esteem. When you attempt to fill it with the approval of others instead, the void grows deeper and the hunger for acceptance and approval grows stronger.  The only solution is to summon the courage to honor your own judgment, frightening though that may be in the beginning.  Nathaniel Branden
• The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves. William Hazlitt
• There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one’s own. Elizabeth Elton Smith
• Ultimately, love is self-approval. Sondra Ray
• Well, we all know that self-esteem comes from what you think of you, not what other people think of you. Gloria Gaynor
• 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
• The higher our inner self-esteem, the less we need the approval of others. David R. Hawkins
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Your self-worth can be an important predeterminer of your net worth

• Give yourself permission to stop seeing yourself as the type of person who makes $20 an hour, and start seeing yourself as the type of person who makes ten times that. Marelisa Fabrega
• In order to make more money, you have to feel that you deserve it. If you don’t give yourself permission to make more money, then, regardless of how much value you provide, you’re going to unconsciously look for ways to sabotage yourself. After all, people will go to great lengths to maintain consistency with their self-image. Marelisa Fabrega
• The strongest single factor in prosperity consciousness is self-esteem: believing you can do it, believing you deserve it, believing you will get it. Jerry Gillies
• What psychological barriers are stopping me from making more money? What are my current beliefs about money?  How is my self-   talk limiting the amount of money that I can make? How can I raise my self-esteem in order to feel worthy to earn a larger income?  Marelisa Fabrega
• When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it. Mark Victor Hansen
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Low self-esteem comes at a heavy price

• Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on. Maxwell Maltz
• The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.  Mark Twain
• The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone. Ayn Rand
• Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself. Anthony Trollope
• The price tag you put on yourself decides your worth. Underestimating yourself will cost you dearly. Apoorve Dubey
• If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
• Self-esteem isn’t everything; it’s just that there’s nothing without it. Gloria Steinem

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Envy and jealousy come from lack of self-worth

• When you’re a beautiful person on the inside, nothing in the world can change that about you. Jealousy is the result of one’s lack of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance. The Lesson: If you can’t accept yourself, then certainly no one else will. Sasha Azevedo
• Envy is for people who don’t have the self-esteem to be jealous. Bauvard
• Envy,  Jealousy

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Learn to love yourself

• When I loved myself enough, I no longer needed things or people to make me feel safe. Kim McMillen
• I never loved another person the way I loved myself. Mae West
• You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. Siddhārtha Gautama
• Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. Lucille Ball
• Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends. Aberjhani
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Accept all parts of yourself

• As a psychotherapist I see nothing does as much for an individual’s self-esteem as becoming aware of and accepting disowned parts of the self. The first steps of healing and growth are awareness and acceptance—consciousness and integration. Nathaniel Branden
• I cannot be truly myself, cannot build self-esteem, if I cannot accept myself. Nathaniel Branden
• Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it’s conditional. Albert Ellis
• The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. C.Carl Jung
• To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.  Thich Nhat Hanh
• There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not anymore what you will become. It is what you are and always will be. John Fowles
• We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves. Malcolm X
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Accept and love your body too

• No body is worth more than your body. Melody Carstairs
• Healthy emotions come in all sizes. Healthy minds come in all sizes. And healthy bodies come in all sizes. Cheri K. Erdman
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Learn to trust yourself

• I’ve learned to trust myself, to listen to truth, to not be afraid of it and to not try and hide it. Sarah McLachlan
• 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
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Talk positively to yourself

• It’s not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it’s what you whisper to yourself that has the most power! Robert T. Kiosaki
• Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings. Asa Don Brown
• Reframe your mind with positive affirmations. For instance, say this to yourself “I love and accept myself completely and unconditionally.” Read your affirmations out loud several times a day. Evelyn Lim
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Be your own best friend

• 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
• Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. Eleanor Roosevelt
• Before you can successfully make friends with others, first you have to become your own friend. Stephen Richards
• You are the best friend you will ever have. In the presence of your true self you will become the most peaceful, the most relaxed, the most natural person possible. Bartholomew
• If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone. Maxwell Maltz
• Think about what it’s like to be a good friend to someone. Then ask: Am I that kind of friend to myself? Rick Hanson
• I will spend more time with myself in this lifetime than anyone else. Let me learn to be the kind of person I would like to have as a friend. Al-Anon
• I believe with all my heart that the cliches are true, that we are our own best friends and best company, and that if you’re not right for yourself, it’s impossible to be right for anyone. Rachel Machacek
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Build your integrity

• Don’t worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward. Laura Schlessinger
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Be honest with yourself and others

• The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us than exposed ones. They erode our strength, our self-esteem, our very foundation. Cheryl Hughes
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Respect yourself

• Respect yourself if you would have others respect you. Baltasar Gracian
• Respect heroes above men, gods above demi-gods, but above all, respect yourself. Pythagoras
• Repect yourself. The rest will follow. Pythagoras
• Above the cloud with it’s shadow, is the star with its light. Above all things, reverence thyself. Pythagoras
• Seek respect mainly from thyself, for it comes first from within. Steven H. Coogler
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Live by strong principles and values

• I believe that a life of integrity is the most fundamental source of personal worth. I do not agree with the popular success literature that says that self-esteem is primarily a matter of mind set, of attitude – that you can psych yourself into peace of mind. Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.  Stephen Covey
• Our value is the sum of our values. Joe Batten
• Principles,  Values

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Be true to yourself and be yourself

• I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. Frederick Douglass
• Be faithful to that which exists within yourself. AndréGide
• 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. Elizabeth Taylor
• Be content to seem what you really are.  Marcus Aurelius
• The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are. Goldie Hawn

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Celebrate your uniqueness

• If you celebrate your differentness, the world will, too. It believes exactly what you tell it—through the words you use to describe yourself, the actions you take to care for yourself, and the choices you make to express yourself. Tell the world you are one-of-a- kind creation who came here to experience wonder and spread joy. Expect to be accommodated. Victoria Moran
• Your value is in your individuality. Dorla Rudd Jenkins
• Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are. Marilyn Monroe
• We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light. Mary Dunbar
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Engage in activities that help you feel a sense of achievement

• Adopt strategies to rebuild your self-esteem. Engage in activities – mental or physical – that help you to feel a sense of achievement.  Make a list of the things you want to achieve.  Include small, medium and large goals – allow your mind to run freely.  Make a start immediately with some of the smaller ones – this is one of the best ways I know for dealing with rejection.  Elly Prior
• Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment. Bill Hybels
• Self-esteem cannot be directly injected. It needs to result from doing well, from being warranted. Martin Seligman
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Focus on and celebrate your successes and accomplishments

• To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives. Denis Waitley
• Learn to pat yourself on the back for your past and present victories, no matter how small. Search for things to acknowledge. Write down every strong point you can come up with in your life, past and present. John Kehoe
• Take inventory of your good reasons for self-esteem today. Write down what your ‘BAG’ is. Blessings—who and what you are thankful for. Accomplishments—what you have done that you’re proud of so far. Goals—what your dreams and ambitions are. Denis Waitley
• Make a list of your accomplishments—even the small ones— and add to it daily. Lori Deschene
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Make a list of your positive aspects

• Make a list of things you like about yourself. If you feel tempted to jot down anything negative, refrain. Seriously think about what you like about yourself and what you’re good at. This isn’t the time to be modest. Katherine Becker

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Believe in yourself

• Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. Norman Vincent Peale
• Believe in yourself and the world will follow suit. Tadahiko Nagao
• Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself. Robert Collier quotes
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Build your talents and skills

• Make a deliberate attempt to look for opportunities that can help improve your confidence. For instance, if you are particularly good at doing something, set aside more time to indulge and improve your skills on it. Knowing that you have particular gifts can boost your self-esteem. Evelyn Lim
• People simply feel better about themselves when they’re good at something. Stephen Covey
• Real self-worth comes from mastery, from getting good at something. It doesn’t matter what. Then you don’t have to worry about empty compliments. You don’t worry about what other people think. You have self-respect. Albert Borris
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Focus on and grow your strengths, not your weaknesses

• Stop trying to fix your weaknesses. You can’t be perfect. Focus on your strengths and let other people do what you’re bad at. Henri Junttila
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Compete only with yourself

• When you have high self-esteem you are in competition with the only person it makes sense to compete with—yourself. Life then becomes a game, and all the things in life that were bothersome become challenges and part of the game. Josè Silva and Burt Goldman
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Stop comparing yourself with others

• And for God’s sake, never get into the petty habit of measuring your self-worth against other people’s net- worth. As Yogi Ramen preached: ‘Every second you spend thinking about someone else’s dreams you take time away from your own. Robin Sharma
• In form, you are and will always be inferior to some, superior to others. In essence, you are neither inferior nor superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. Eckhart Tolle
• People of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others. They do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else. Nathaniel Branden
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Take control over your life

• Law of Control: An individual will have high levels of self-esteem and will feel positive about themselves, to the exact degree they feel in control of their destiny, decisions and life. Peter Jordaan
• People who believe they cause good things tend to like themselves better than people who believe good things come from other people or circumstances. Martin Seligman
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Gain control over yourself

• Forget about self-esteem. Work on self-control. Roy Baumeister & John Tierney
• 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
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Make decisions that support your self-esteem

• Only make decisions that support your self-image, self-esteem, and self-worth. Oprah Winfrey

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Fire your inner critic and re-instate your fan club

• Fire your inner critic and reinstate your inner fan club. Alan Cohen
• Always remember your brilliance. Alexandra Stoddard
• Care for yourself enough to listen carefully to what you say to yourself. Willis Goth Regier
• If I had it to do again, I would less often judge myself and more often ask for a jury. Robert Brault
• You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens. Louise L. Hay
• Criticism breaks down the inner spirit. Praise builds it up. Praise yourself as much as you can. Tell yourself how well you are doing with every little thing. Louise L. Hay
• It is time to stop telling yourself negative things that you wouldn’t dream of saying to a friend, but that you habitually say to yourself. Amanda Harvey
• We all have the tendency to believe self-doubt and self-criticism but listening to this voice never gets us closer to our goals. Instead, try on the point of view of a mentor or good friend who believes in you, wants the best for you, and will encourage you when you feel discouraged. Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D.
• The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person. Alexander Pope
• There are an inner critic and an inner protector inside each of us. For most people, that inner critic is continually yammering away, looking for something, anything, to find fault with. It magnifies small failings into big ones, punishes you over and over for things long past, ignores the larger context, and doesn’t credit you for your efforts to make amends. That’s why you need your inner protector to stick up for you: to put your weaknesses and misdeeds in perspective, to highlight your many good qualities surrounding your lapses, to encourage you to return to the high road even if you’ve gone down the low one, and—frankly—to tell that inner critic to Hush Up Now. Rick Hanson
• When nobody else celebrates you, learn to celebrate yourself. When nobody else compliments you, then compliment yourself. It’s not up to other people to keep you encouraged. It’s up to you. Encouragement should come from the inside. Joel Osteen
• I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. But for the rest of my life, I am going to be with me and I don’t want to spend my life with someone who is always critical. So I am going to stop being my own critic. It’s high time that I accept all the great things about me.   JoyBell C.
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Stop trying to fix yourself

• Don’t try to fix me, I’m not broken… Evanescence
• Stop trying to ‘fix’ yourself; you’re NOT broken! You are perfectly imperfect and powerful beyond measure. Steve Maraboli

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Get a dog!

• To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs. Aldous Huxley
• If your dog thinks you’re the greatest person in the world, don’t seek a second opinion. Jim Fiebig
• Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. Ann Landers
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Combine self-esteem with humility, for they can greatly complement each other

• Few are humble, for it takes a self-esteem few possess. Robert Brault
• Many people believe that humility is the opposite of pride, when, in fact, it is a point of equilibrium. The opposite of pride is actually a lack of self-esteem. A humble person is totally different from a person who cannot recognize and appreciate himself as part of this worlds marvels. Rabino Nilton Bonder
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Self-esteem versus pride

• Self-esteem contemplates what needs to be done and says, ‘I can.’ Pride contemplates what has been accomplished and says, ‘I did.’ Nathaniel Branden
• Many people believe that humility is the opposite of pride, when, in fact, it is a point of equilibrium. The opposite of pride is actually a lack of self-esteem. A humble person is totally different from a person who cannot recognize and appreciate himself as part of this worlds marvels. Rabino Nilton Bonder
• Self-esteem is different than conceit. Conceit is the weirdest disease in the world. It makes everyone sick except the one who has it. Hartman Rector, Jr.
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At the end of the day, self-esteem is just your subjective opinion …

• Self-esteem is a bunch of thoughts about what sort of person you are. And here’s the key thing: self-esteem is not a fact; it’s just an opinion. That’s right, it’s not the truth; it’s just an opinion—nothing more than a highly subjective judgement, made by your thinking self. Dr Russ Harris

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… a highly edited story you’ve developed in your head

• Your opinion about yourself is like a documentary. All documentaries are hopelessly biased in that they only show you a tiny part of the big picture.  Out of an entire lifetime of experience—literally hundreds of thousands of hours of archival ‘film footage’—our thinking self selects a few dramatic memories, edits them together with some related judgements and opinions and turns it into a powerful documentary entitled This Is Who I Am!  Dr Russ Harris
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Building and then maintaining self-esteem (the story of you) is hard work

• What we tend to do is a whole lot of reasoning, justifying and negotiating until—maybe—we eventually convince our thinking self to declare that we’re a ‘good person’… The problem is, with this approach you constantly have to prove that you’re a good person. You constantly have to justify this good opinion. You constantly have to challenge those ‘not good enough’ stories. And all that takes a lot of time and effort. In fact, it’s rather like playing a never-ending game of chess. Dr Russ Harris
• If your self-esteem is low, you feel miserable; but if it’s high, you’re constantly straining to maintain it. Dr Russ Harris
• Trying to maintain high self-esteem can actually pull you away from what you value. Dr Russ Harris

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Not only that, strong self-esteem can have its shortcomings

• Although psychologists extolled the benefits of self-esteem for many years, recent research has exposed costs associated with the pursuit of high self-esteem, including narcissism, distorted self-perceptions, contingent and/or unstable self-worth, as well as anger and violence toward those who threaten the ego. Wikipedia
• The Space Between Self-Esteem and Self Compassion: Kristin Neff
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What if you could let go of the need to have a story about yourself?

• What would life be like if you were to let go of self-esteem altogether; if you completely let go of judging yourself as a person? Don’t try to prove yourself. Don’t try to think of yourself as a ‘good person’. Don’t try to justify your self-worth. Whatever judgements your thinking self makes of you, just see them for what they are and let them go. And at the same time take action in line with your values. Dr Russ Harris
• You are neither the black pieces nor the white pieces in a chess game. Rather, you are the board. Those pieces on the board are just cognitions—nothing more than thoughts, images and memories. Are you a thought? For example, are you the words ‘I’m not good enough’? Are you an image, nothing more than a picture in your own head? Are you a memory, merely a record of something that happened in the past?  Dr Russ Harris

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Give others the gift of self-esteem

• Do not let a moment go by in which you have an opportunity to tell someone how magnificent they are. Give people the gift of self- esteem, and you will have given them a gift that many connot find a way to give themselves. Yet when they find themselves through their own grandest idea of who they really are, they are lost no more, for you have returned them to themselves. Neale Donald Walsch
• There is nothing so rewarding as to make people realize that they are worthwhile in this world. Bob Anderson

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Parenthood is about helping children build self-esteem

• Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self- worth. It is sad that so many parents don’t realize what messages they are sending. Virginia Satir
• Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible – the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family. Virginia Satir
• Parents need to listen as much to their kids as they do to them. The first duty of love is to listen. Paul Tillich
• There’s a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It’s not something you can give; it’s something they have to build. Randy Pausch
• We all need a cheering committee and parents are a child’s most important fans! Vivian Kirkfield
• Work hard to create in your children a good self-image. It’s the most important thing you can do to insure their success. Jackson Brown Jr.
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Don’t attach your self worth to anything external to yourself

• You can have anything you wish in your life, but if your sense of self-worth or your happiness depends on it, then you are attached to it. Whoever or whatever you are attached to can manipulate you. You are no longer free. Michelle Mayur

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• Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes. William Gibson
• I’d like to have more self-esteem, but I don’t deserve it.
• I used to be self-conscious about my height, but then I thought, fuck that, I’m Harry Potter. Daniel Radcliffe
• Your self-esteem is a notch below Kafka. Woody Allen
• I have an inferiority complex, but it isn’t a very good one.

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