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?

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...

If everybody likes you, you are doing it wrong.

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.

Telling yourself you like the way you look is easy. Believing it is an entirely different kettle of whales.

I’ve always been told my presence brightened up any room. One might think that went doubly for dank underground cell.” (Jace)

We tend to think that it’s up to others to respect our needs and fill them for us. But that doesn’t ever work, and for the following reason:If you have a hard time knowing what...

Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it’s not a place on the map at all, but just a story...

Focusing on who you are, and pursuing opportunities to improve your abilities, allows you to be in acceptance of yourself. This makes you a beautiful person who could care less about what others think of...

You will be your best self when you take time to understand what you really need, feel and want.

I try not to let other people’s problems problem me.

At any given moment, you have the power to say: This is not how the story is going to end.

You think it’s so easy to change yourself. You think it’s so easy, but it’s not True, things don’t stay the same forever: couches are replaced, boys leave, you discover a song, your body becomes...

It is well understood in psychology that the subconscious mind has the dominant influence on human decision making, and therefore the pivotal role of the subconscious, for you to achieve success, is inescapable.

The opposite of self-assertiveness is self-abnegation–abandoning or submerging your personal values, judgment, and interests. Some people tell themselves this is a virtue. It is a “virtue” that corrodes self-esteem.

Smile: Happiness Is Right Under Your Nose!

Sooo, I’m tired of people thinking I’m a freak. I know you can’t relate to that but -“”Get over it already, will ya?” Candace stood. “You’re not Smellody anymore. You’re pretty. You can get hot...

Do not share your thoughts with people who think that what you are thinking is not worth thinking.

Self-esteem wasn’t the issue for my parents or their parents. Survival was their primary goal.

Some people only hate you because of the way other people love you.

Men who read it [beauty pornography] don’t do so because they want women who look like that. The attraction of what they are holding is that it is not a woman, but a two-dimensional woman-shaped...

The diet industry is making a lot of money selling us fad diets, nonfat foods full of chemicals, gym memberships, and pills while we lose a piece of our self-esteem every time we fail another...

I don’t know anyone who remembers meeting their parents when they were a baby so i’m just like everybody else. -Zoey (100% Real)

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

I exist as I am, that is enough,If no other in the world be aware I sit content,And if each and all be aware I sit content.One world is aware, and by the far the...

Piper had a new entry in her top-ten list of Times Piper Felt Useless. Fighting Shrimpzilla with a dagger and a pretty voice? Not so effective.

Stop looking at what everyone else has! You have to figure out who you are before you can be anyone!

Happiness is a choice you make when you allow faith through the entry gate and fear through the exit gate.

My childhood was one of both poverty and plenty, suffering and joy. I was taken out of poverty, both financial and emotional, and lavished with love. I was given a gift I could never repay...

The secret to your purpose is to find what you feel is important, and not pursue what others would think is important. When you think highly of yourself, me thinking highly of you will never...

A beautiful face will age and a perfect body will change, but an awesome person will always be an awesome person.

There is no VALUE JUDGMENT more important to man – no factor more decisive in his psychological development and motivation – than the ESTIMATE he passes on himself”. It works on the psyche either in...

People who do not value you are worthless and those who do are priceless.

I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.