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One is rated by others as he rates himself.
-Proverb
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When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.
-Geoffrey F. Abert
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If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
-Alexander The Great
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You must be
true to yourself.
Strong enough to be
true to yourself.
Brave enough to be
strong enough to be
true to yourself.
Wise enough to be
brave enough to be
strong enough to
shape yourself from what
you actually are.
-Sylvia Ashton-Warner
(in Myself)
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I have often wondered how it is everyone loves himself more than the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than the opinions of others.
-Marcus Aurelius
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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.
Being true to anyone else or anything else is...impossible.
-Richard Bach
Illusions
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Study to be what you wish to seem.
-John Bate
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Our value is the sum of our values.
-Joe Batten
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I have just about all I can take of myself.
-S. Behrman
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I will give thanks to thee for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are Thy works, and my soul knows it very well. Psalms 139:14
-Bible
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To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem.
-Nathaniel Branden
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An individual's self-concept is the core of his personality. It affects every aspect of human behavior: the ability to learn, the capacity to grow and change . . . . A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success in life.
-Joyce Brothers
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Other people
-Les Brown
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Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to avoid the frog's foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox.
-Miguel de Cervantes
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Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.
-Joe Clark
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It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete.
-Jim Courier
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To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.
-Joan Didion
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I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.
-Frederick Douglass
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The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
-Frederick Douglass
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Self-worth comes from one thing -- thinking that you are worthy.
-Wayne Dyer
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Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
-Albert Einstein
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It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet. Let him not peep or steal, or skulk up and down with the air of a charity-boy, a bastard, or an interloper.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Books about Self Respect
