Still the voices of your critics. Listen intently to your own voice, to the person who knows you best. Then answer these questions: Do you think you should move ahead? How will you feel if...

What self-acceptance does is open up more possibilities of succeeding because you aren’t fighting yourself along the way.

A sad truth is that we don’t know what we really believe! We don’t know how we operate. We don’t know what is holding us back. We don’t know why we do what we do.

Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

We can never know the impact a simple smile has on another. Smiling is one of the easiest things we can do. Is there a simpler, more effortless way to give everyone you meet a...

Confidence is a life ingredient that is essential to success and wholeness. It is perhaps the single most important trait that enables seemingly average people to do and become all that they can. And the...

Put on your lips success creeds every day. Never see yourself as an unworthy being, incapable of receiving good gifts from God.

No one is going to value you more than you value yourself.

There is no dictionary in the world that includes the words ’skinny’ or ‘fat’ under the definitions of ‘beautiful’ and ‘ugly’. So, focus on being healthy and stop the self-criticism.

Don’t do things that you know are morally wrong. Not because someone is watching, but because you are. Self-esteem is just the reputation that you have with yourself. You’ll always know.

If you think you’re worthless, you’re not – but your limiting self-beliefs are. Change them.

Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings.

Integrity is congruence between what you know, what you profess, and what you do.

The first secret of success: Believe in Yourself. Nothing changes in your life until you believe you can do things that are important to you. And if you have a low opinion of yourself, nobody...

I’ll never have to give an account for not being more like my favorite celebrity, that shining star in my chosen field or anybody else. And at the end of my life, the question I...

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.

If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you’ll see your rivals scrambling for second place.

Why don’t we learn about the mental health which affects every minute of our lives? … Where is the school for learning [about] positive mental health?

If everybody likes you, you are doing it wrong.

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

A leader helps others to reach their full leadership potential.

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Courage injures the strong ones who have no wisdom, but it motivates the brave ones, to always win.

Smile at people everywhere you go. Don’t just give them one of those half-smirk/head nod things. Raise your eyebrows, show those teeth, and chuckle while you smile. Next time you’re at the store, give a...

The gangs of arrogant thieves that can rob you of your success are your own doubts, fears and low self-image. Get them arrested and kept distances apart and you and your accomplishments are secured.

Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don’t be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren’t paying any attention to...

What is it that would make a creature as fierce, majestic and powerful as a lion is, subject itself to the intimidation of a man a whip and a chair? The lion has been taught...

He’d wanted her. Out of all the women in the world, he’d wanted her. Wanted, hell, she thought grinning now. Pursued, demanded. Taken. And while she could admit all of that was exciting, he’d gone...

Just because you…achieve what you always thought would make you feel special does not fix that deep-down internal insecurity. External achievement never equals internal acceptance.

I believed almost every negative thing that I ever heard someone say about me.

It is naive to think that self-assertiveness is easy. To live self-assertively–which means to live authentically–is an act of high courage. That is why so many people spend the better part of their lives in...

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

You’ve been criticising yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

If you talked to your friends the way you talk to your body, you’d have no friends left at all.

Remember, nothing happens before it’s supposed to, so trust that, as you are striving for authenticity and personal excellence, the recognition of your life’s purpose is nearing closer.

We survey lush landscapes with variations not dissimilar to a so-called “imperfect” female body with absolute pleasure — say, an expanse of Irish countryside with grassy rolling hills. But is it really so much uglier...

No one can repair your self-esteem for you. Your spouse cannot fix it. Your parents cannot fix it. Your boss cannot fix it. No amount of success or beauty enhancements can fix it. You have...

Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.

It is a pleasurable thing to earn the admiration of others, but it is a far better feeling to honestly admire thyself.

You have to understand your best. Your best isn’t Barrymore’s best or Olivier’s best or my best, but your own. Every person has his norm. And in that norm every person is a star. Olivier...

I’m nothing great. But I’m a rose… I’m a rose whether I’m admired or not, I’m a rose whether anyone’s crazy about me or not… Like I said, nothing great. Just a rose… But, do...

Sethe, he says, “me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.”He leans over and takes her hand. With the other he touches her face. “You your best thing,...

When you express “purity” which is the truth about yourself, you feel a love for yourself that is expressed by self-respect, self-esteem, and self-confidence!

The first place where self-esteem begins its journey is within us.

One of the most powerful lessons in life is to recognize that no one can give you power, and many people don’t want you to have it. You have to find the courage to seize...

I didn’t despise myself for being who I was, and I never would. I wouldn’t allow anyone to make me feel bad about that. That was a line I could draw in the sand.

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who who work with him. Don’t knock your friends....

At the core of your heart, you are perfect and pure. No one and nothing can alter that.

Parents need to fill a child’s bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can’t oke enough holes to drain it dry.

Your value is in your individuality.