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"Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others."
"Being on stage is about self esteem and self confidence."
"He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce."
"Limitless like the ocean are your excellent qualities."
"Whenever I have faced a setback I have dusted myself down and got on with the rest of my life because I believed in myself."
"Baby girl you need to stop it, all that pride and self esteem got you angry bout this girl I'm wit in all them magazines."
"What is greatness? I will answer: it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose, self-esteem."
"Initially, my decision to stop eating meat was motivated by fear of spiritual consequences, but right away I found that not eating meat made me feel good about myself. It increased my self-esteem, which I found so rewarding, I wanted to do more."
"The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity."
"Don?t back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for your beliefs builds self-confidence and self-esteem."
"Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said."
"What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate - and immediately forget we have done so."
"To have an incredible increase in self esteem, all you have to do is start doing some little something. You don't have to do spectacularly dramatic things for self esteem to start going off the scale. Just make a commitment to any easy discipline. Then another one and another one."
"The greatest step toward success is self confidence. The greatest builder of self confidence is self esteem, and self esteem comes from doing the daily things you know you should do. Your self esteem will start to soar when you make some critical decisions - decisions to walk a new road, to start a new direction, to start a new discipline."
"For me, this was all or nothing. I left no room for anything else. That goal was just for my own push, my own self-esteem. The fear of not being a success in my life made me push even harder."
"I am the greatest. I said that even before I knew I was. Don't tell me I can't do something. Don't tell me it's impossible. Don't tell me I'm not the greatest. I'm the double greatest."
"There is so much love in your heart that you could heal the planet."
"If we choose an external marker as the measure of our inner worth, whether it is the amount of money we make, or others' opinion of us, or the success of some project we're involved in, sooner or later we're bound to be battered by life's inevitable changes. After all, money comes and goes, and thus is an unstable source of self-esteem, an unreliable foundation upon which to build our identity."
"In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same."