Guilt is the only emotion that we teach.
Be Yourself.
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
Occasionally, it's a good idea to blow your own horn. Otherwise, someone else may start using it as a spittoon!
Self-esteem Test:
The most important thought you can ever hold is: Your life matters.
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way.
No one can make me feel inferior but myself.
SELF-ESTEEM controls PERFORMANCE/REALITY which stimulate SELF-TALK which reinforces SELF-ESTEEM. This cycle can work positively or negatively and is greatly influenced by the self-talk ("I knew I wasn't good at --" vs "next time I'll practice and do better at --").
- Bobby Ross, Coach, Lions
- Malcom Forbes
What do you see first in the following letters: (There are 2 answers)
IAMNOWHERE
- David McNally
- Victor Frankl
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life - there, if one must speak out, the real man.
- Marcus Aurelius
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
- Janis Joplin
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.
Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of "Try to fix me." Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.
- Wayne Dyer
90% of who you are you can't touch, feel or smell.
If I am what I have
And if I lose what I have
Who then am I?
- Eric Fromm
What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.
- Wayne Dyer
Some people who think that everything is a nail, are down on themselves because they are not a hammer. They tend to deprecate their own unique talents and capacities to use a chisel or a pair of pliers.
Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
- Wayne Dyer
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
- Walt Disney
When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.
- Robert Browning
If you have your sight, you are blessed. If you have insight, you are a thousand times blessed.
In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.
SELF-ESTEEM: Jesuit priests rated themselves in the top 2% of performers of all Jesuit priests. Physicians rated themselves in the top 1% of performers of all physicians.
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