One is rated by others as he rates himself. – Proverb
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
If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes. – Alexander The Great
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
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
Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is…impossible. – Richard Bach
Study to be what you wish to seem. – John Bate
Our value is the sum of our values. – Joe Batten
I have just about all I can take of myself. – S. Behrman
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
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
An individuals 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
Other people – Les Brown
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 frogs foolish ambition of swelling to rival the bigness of the ox. – Miguel de Cervantes
It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete. – Jim Courier
To have that sense of ones 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
The soul that is within me no man can degrade. – Frederick Douglass
Self-worth comes from one thing — thinking that you are worthy. – Wayne Dyer
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
It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
