Top 30 Quotes on Self-Esteem.

Self-Esteem is an individual’s subjective evaluation of your own worth. It is your overall opinion of yourself, how you feel about yourself, your abilities, and your limitations. Healthy self-esteem makes you feel good about yourself while low self-esteem leads to self-criticism, anxiety, and low self-confidence.

 Canadian–American psychotherapist Nathaniel Branden defined self-esteem in his book- The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem:

Self-esteem, fully realized, is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life. More specifically, self-esteem is:

1.   confidence in our ability to think, confidence in our ability to cope with the basic challenges of life; and

2.   confidence in our right to be successful and happy, the feeling of being worthy, deserving, entitled to assert our  needs and wants, achieve our values, and enjoy the fruits of our efforts.

Here are 30 top quotes on self-esteem:

• Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.- Eleanor Roosevelt
• What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.- Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.- M. Scott Peck   
• You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company. – Diane Von Furstenberg
• Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. – Malcolm S. Forbes
• A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. – Mark Twain

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. – William James

• To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.– Denis Waitley
• Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.– Howard Washington Thurman
• To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.– Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.– Carl Gustav Jung

• When you stop living your life based on what others think of you real life begins. At that moment, you will finally see the door of self-acceptance opened.– Shannon L. Alder
• Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.– Roy T. Bennett
• Self-love is an ocean and your heart is a vessel. Make it full, and any excess will spill over into the lives of the people you hold dear. But you must come first.– Beau Taplin

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.– Ralph Waldo Emerson

• It is never too late to be what you might have been.– George Eliot
• Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. – Helen Keller
• Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.– Thomas Jefferson

• Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong. – Peter T. McIntyre
• Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy. – Norman Vincent Peale
• Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself. – Anthony Trollope
• You’ve been criticising yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens. – Louise Hay
• The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. – Michel de Montaigne

• The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone. – Ayn Rand
• The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.– Robert Hand
• Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable. – Jack Canfield
• Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on. – Maxwell Maltz
• If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think. – T. Harv Eker
• Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. – Richard Bach
• You are not your mistakes; they are what you did, not who you are. – Lisa Lieberman-Wang
• The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself. – Mark Twain
• There are so many more important things to worry about than how you’re perceived by strangers. – Dennis Lehane
• Self–care is never a selfish act; it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others. – Parker Palmer

All the Best in your quest to get Better. Don’t Settle: Live with Passion.