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?

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.

If everybody likes you, you are doing it wrong.

You are magnificent beyond measure, perfect in your imperfections, and wonderfully made.

It’s hard loving those who don’t much like themselves: “If you’re so great, why would you think I’m so great.

Last time I talked to her she didn’t sound like herself. She’s depressed. It’s awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they’re no good.

It has nothing to do with who I am as compared to everyone else. It has everything to do with who I am in companionship with God.

I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high.

Even the models we see in magazines wish they could look like their own images.

Don’t belittle yourself. Be BIG yourself.

Bad habits are like having a sumo wrestler in the back of your canoe rowing the opposite direction.

Maybe this is a second doctoral program: advanced learning about life, death, marriage, mothering, family, faith, patience, prayer. My degree will be ‘Doctor of Life,’ and I will be in good company. So many of...

Be self-indulgent, and those who are also self-indulgent will like you. Tear your neighbor to pieces, and the other neighbors will laugh. But if you beat your soul, all souls will cry out.

Self motivation leads to acceptance of thyself.

Most people do not erode their self-esteem over big issues but over small ones, little acts of betrayal and hypocrisy forgotten (repressed) very quickly. But the computer in your subconscious mind forgets nothing. It records...

I will never attend an anti-war rally; if you have a peace rally, invite me.

I believe this: You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and goddamn it, you refuse to let it get to you. you...

I don’t need to be tame, because dragons choose their partner by themselves.

The only way that you can identify and then fulfill your life’s purpose is for you to love yourself, charge up your life and serve the world.

I’m not talking about the blood ecstasy. I’m talking about my being able to fill that emotion void she has. You know her as well as I do, maybe better. She aches with it. She...

Our choices in life are made according to our sense of our own worth.

If a woman defined herself solely by the man she was with—and vice versa—the world would be a very shallow and insipid place, indeed.

I know how mirrors work. They’re all in league with the cosmetics trade. They tell a woman lies. Drawing her gaze from one imagined flaw to another, until all she sees is a constellation of...

No one can discover you until you do. Exploit your talents, skills and strengths and make the world sit up and take notice.

Things happened to the worst, I’ve lost many things and I’ve got many things but the precious thing I have with me right now is “having me still”. I love myself. I love myself unconditionally....

There is always a curve n the road when it comes to a relationship,don’t let others bring you down to their level because of their own unhappiness and insecurities that they have within themselves.

If you seek happiness through someone else’s perspective, you might as well get comfortable in sorrow.

The trick for introverts is to honor their styles instead of allowing themselves to be swept up by prevailing norms.

Acknowledgement is possession. When you acknowledge, think or have conviction in something, it actually will come true.

Nothing Can Substitute Attitude Keep It Up

I’ve been depressed all day. I feel like such a fraud. People say how special and wonderful I am. I think,”Can’t they tell? “—Nita, September 18, 1984

When you wake up and find yourself living someplace where there is nobody you love and trust, no community, it is time to leave town – to pack up and go (you can even go...

Self-love is often equated with self-esteem but when it makes you blind to your own faults and gives you an inflated ego, it is time to introspect.

I am small.So are stars from a distance. It’s all a matter of perspective.