Quotes and Sayings about Self-Esteem
Anonymous: When a man falls in love with himself, it’s usually the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Colin McEnroe: Many purchasers of self-help books are grappling with a creeping, leaden feeling that life is passing them by. . . . Why, these purchasers ask, am I not a glittering presence? Why do I not have an ostentatiously large and tastelessly furnished house full of sullen hangers-on?
Daniel Defoe: Justice is always violent to the offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
Elbert Hubbard: The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without.
Eldridge Cleaver: We shall have our manhood.
Eric Hoffer: Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.
Ethel Watts Mumford: The greatest possession is self-possession.
Karl Stern: Psychoanalysis shows the human infant as the passive recipient of love, unable to bear hostility. Development is learning to love actively and to bear rejection.
Maxwell Maltz: Of all the traps and pitfalls in life, self-disesteem is the deadliest, and hardest to overcome, for it is a pit designed and dug by our own hands, summed up in the phrase, “It’s no use—I can’t do it.”
Susan Sontag: He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.
Thomas Szasz: People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something that one finds. It is something that one creates.
Van Wyck Brooks: Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.
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