Self-Esteem Quotes

Self-esteem Affirmations

Quotes from writers, readers and others, read them and feel good about you!

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson -

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

"Our strength often increases in proportion to the obstacles imposed upon it."
- Paul De Rapin -

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave."
- Mark Twain -

"The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours."
- Earl Riney -

"Success doesn't come to you...you go to it."
- Marva Collins -

"Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things."
- Winston Churchill -

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
- Eleanor Roosevelt -

"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."
- George Bernard Shaw -

"Success comes not from the avoidance of failure. Most of the time, success is achieved only when there has been enough failure."
- Unknown Author -

"Problems are only opportunities in work clothes."
- Henry J. Kaiser -

"Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for; but, rather something to be achieved."
- William Jennings Bryan -

"Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity."
- Helen Schucman -

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
- Albert Einstein -

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."
- Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton -

"The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that we can succeed."
- Nelson Boswell -

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."
- Louisa May Alcott -

"I've finally stopped running away from myself, who else is there better to be?"
- Goldie Hawn -

Here's some recommended reading: "What Happy People Know" by Dan Baker.
The six happiness tools in this guide include: practicing appreciation; making choices; building personal power; leading with your strengths; employing constructive language; and living multidimensionally.