Self-esteem Quotes

"I'm Dylan. I'm so cool. I want to date myself, but I don't know how! You want to date me instead? You're so lucky!"

- Rick Riordan

"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

"Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so."

- Naomi Wolf

"Well, we all know that self-esteem comes from what you think of you, not what other people think of you."

- Gloria Gaynor

"You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here."

- Ram Dass

"Narcissism is not about self love. It's a clinical trait that belies a deep sense of emptiness, low self-esteem, emotional detachment, self-loathing, extreme problems with intimacy."

- Drew Pinsky

"Social media websites are no longer performing an envisaged function of creating a positive communication link among friends, family and professionals. It is a veritable battleground, where insults fly from the human quiver, damaging lives, destroying self-esteem and a person's sense of self-worth."

- Anthony Carmona

"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

"The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives."

- Bernie S. Siegel

"Believing in our hearts that who we are is enough is the key to a more satisfying and balanced life."

- Ellen Sue Sterm

"Jealousy is the result one’s lack of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance."

- Sasha Azevedo

"He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away."

- Raymond Hull

"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have."

- Doris Mortman

"Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on."

- Maxwell Maltz

"Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving."

- Maxwell Maltz

"It's not what you are that holds you back, It's what you think you're not."

- Denis Waitley

"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

"It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to."

- W.C. Fields

"Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself."

- Nathaniel Branden

"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."

- Nathaniel Branden

"Self-esteem and self-love are the opposites of fear; the more you like yourself, the less you fear anything."

- Brian Tracy

"It's me who is my enemy. Me who beats me up. Me who makes the monsters. Me who strips my confidence."

- Paula Cole

"Great tranquillity of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame."

- Thomas à Kempis

"You are as amazing as you let yourself be. Let me repeat that. You are as amazing as you let yourself be."

- Elizabeth Alraune

"I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it."

- Johnny Depp

"So long as you are still worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself."

- Neale Donald Walsch

"I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line."

- Lucille Ball

"If someone does not consider those around them to be valuable and hold only themselves in high regard, they too have a very bad self-esteem."

- Stephen Richards

"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love & affection."

- Buddha

"When I loved myself enough, I no longer needed things or people to make me feel safe."

- Kim McMillen