Self Esteem Quotes - Help Raise Your Spirits

Self Esteem Quotes

What follows are various self esteem quotes to help lighten the mode but also to offer insight and encouragement.

There are many quotes on esteem and quotes about esteem available elsewhere. Here I hope these self esteem quotations help you in your quest to boost your self esteem and/or provide a few moments of wisdom and insight into life.

I hope you enjoy them and benefit from them.

Self Esteem Quotations

The gods help them who help themselves. Aesop fables 'Hercules and the Wagoner'

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. Aldous Huxley

One can mistrust one's own senses, but not one's own belief. Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

You must stir it and stump it,And blow your own trumpet,Or trust me, you haven't a chance. W. S. Gilbert

If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others. Confucius

I know of no case where a man added to his dignity by standing on it. Winston Churchill

Welcome is the best cheer. Greek proverb

Smoke does not make a pot boil. Turkish proverb

From my notebooks:

The following are taken from my notebooks. They will I hope complement the quotations given above as well as reveal a little more about my life and my thinking about life.

Some are idle thoughts and comments on life and the life we lead. Others could one day be developed further into articles or reports. I feel that they are related to the 'self esteem quotes' theme.

Self esteem quotes - from my notebooks

Value friendship. The other person will value you, will see something in you. Do you see that in yourself? Then you will be able to return that friendship.

You have a difficult set of cards to play. How should you tackle them? With fortitude, and head held high.

What qualifications do you need? To be alive, and with the willingness to get best out of life. The rest can come.

Are you invited to the party, to life? A resounding -YES. So enjoy and make the most of it.

Envious of another - why is that? What have they got, or what are they, that you covet or wish to emulate. Remember that you can achieve things in your own way and just for you.

You can serve another by way of job or friendship. But there is no need to be subservient. Stand tall and be counted. Count yourself for you do count. You are important.

Walking free. The true freedom. In control, but not controlling. In tune with your inner self. To know what is real. To experience that and live by that.

You have nothing to hide. Be proud of your achievements, of who you are, of what you do.

Get in there with people. Communicate, be yourself and give of yourself and people will respond.

Respect is earned not rewarded.

Permission. Give yourself permission to enjoy life. To strive for the life you'd like. To be the sort of person you'd like to be.

Reveal thyself. Ask and things will be revealed. You will be surprised and elated by what you find.

Don't sweat the small stuff. If you're in the dumps, learn something, pick something up. If you're down take something with you.

Of what are we afraid? That which we don't understand? Comprehend? Out of our experience? Beyond our experience?

Be our own person. Don't live through someone else. Live your life. Only you can - no one can do it for you.

Build your life on firm, solid foundations. You would not build/live in a house built on quicksand. Why expect to have a good and stable life if there is turmoil at the base of things. Do something about it. Seek help.

Are you self sufficient? At times you will need help and assistance but, at the end of the day, you have to live by your choices, decisions or actions. You cannot blame another.

I hope you have enjoyed this 'self esteem quotes' page, and enjoy the rest of the website. Martin