Scroll down to find the list of 100 Famous Quotes to boost your self-esteem!
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Why do so many of us suffer from low self-esteem? Is it because we seek validation and approval from others and our opinion of ourselves isn’t very high unless we get it? Can it be because we underestimate the importance of loving and accepting ourselves first?
Are we just too damn hard on ourselves?
The truth is that we’ve all been there at some point in our lives. Perhaps it stems from our childhood, or perhaps a bad relationship. Most often, the way someone has treated us or words that were said once or a thousand times, have been imbedded into our minds, causing us to think less of ourselves. We begin to question our self-worth. Perhaps you lost your mojo because something changed in your life and now you’re blaming yourself, or maybe you’re be stuck in a rut and see no way out. Well I’m here to tell you that you’re Enough!
True self-esteem isn’t based on what others think of you.
The biggest obstacle to self-esteem is self-criticism. So accept yourself with all your flaws. Be more self-forgiving and let go of self-judgment. You seriously not doing yourself any favours!
How we speak to ourselves is how we see ourselves, and sometimes we need new examples of how our inner conversation should go.
To help you love yourself better, we’ve collected a variety of short inspirational quotes, quotes about self-confidence and most importantly; self-loving quotes for when your mood could needs a boost.
If you don’t know how amazing you are? These inspiring words will remind you of just that, uplifting your spirit along the way, so you believe in yourself, remain positive, keep going, and never give up!
100 Famous Quotes
1. Be everything to you, not everything to everybody. – Lisa Lieberman-Wang
2. If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think. – T. Harv Eker
3. Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people have worries. They just don’t let these feelings stop them. — T. Harv Eker
4. Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. — Dr. Benjamin Spock
5. I didn’t allow other people to dictate how I should feel or act. I learned there was no shame in imperfection because history had shown being different had the power to change perspectives and eventually the world. ― Shannon L. Alder
6. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. ”Steve Jobs
7. Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. – Howard Thurman
8. Once you feel nice about yourself, you have planted the first seed to develop self-confidence. ― Stephen Richards
9. The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. — William Jennings Bryan
10. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. – Marianne Williamson
11. The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little. – Thomas Merton
12. A winner is not someone who wins. It’s someone who tries and isn’t afraid to lose. ― Nusrat Sultana
13. The time is ‘now’ to do something – don’t drag your feet. – Les Brown
14. Loving yourself isn’t vanity. It’s sanity. – Andre Gide
15. The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself. – Mark Twain
16. Believe you can and you’re halfway there. – Theodore Roosevelt
17. Respond to every call that excites your spirit. – Rumi
18. What you believe, you will receive. – Gabby Berbstein
19. Accept yourself and experience true liberation – Amy Leigh Mercree
20. The strongest single factor in prosperity consciousness is self-esteem: believing you can do it, believing you deserve it, believing you will get it. – Jerry Gillies
21. Love yourself. Enough to take the actions required for your happiness. Enough to cut yourself loose from the drama-filled past. Enough to set a high standard for relationships. Enough to feed your mind and body in a healthy manner. Enough to forgive yourself. Enough to move on.- Steve Maraboli
22. Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own? Brigham Young
23. The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself. – Mark Twain
24. Listen to your heart above all other voices. – Marta Kagan
25. Other people’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality. – Les Brown
26. Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others. Oprah Winfrey
27. Act the way you want to be and soon you’ll be the way you act. – Les Brown
28. The most important opinion you have is the one you have of yourself, and the most significant things you say all day are those things you say to yourself. – Unknown Author
29. Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide. – Marva Collins
30. If your self-talk is negative, then your self-esteem will suffer. If your self-talk is positive, then your self-esteem will grow. – Krista “KK” Weatherspoon
31. Low self-esteem arises when we listen to lies about ourselves. Richard Daly
32. In order to achieve true self-esteem and self-confidence, you should be willing to accept that you’re more than capable – both of accomplishing the greatest of things and of making the biggest mistakes. – Ryan Coope
33. To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.- Ralph Waldo Emerson
34. Don’t let joy be an accident. Create it. – Tom Bilyeu
35. To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. Anonymous
36. Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire. – Jennifer Lee
37. Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. – Golda Meir
38. Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid. – Albert Einstein
39. Your self-worth is determined by you. You don’t have to depend on someone telling you who you are. – Beyoncé
40. Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine. – Oprah
41. Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt
42. Life is too short, and I’m Italian. I’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0. – Sophia Bush
43. If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. ~ Author Unknown
44. Unique and different is the new generation of beautiful . . . You don’t have to be like everybody else. In fact I don’t think you should. – Taylor Swift
45. Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. Malcolm S. Forbes
46. Let others determine your worth and you’re already lost, because no one wants people worth more than themselves. ― Peter V. Brett
47. When someone tells me ‘no’, it doesn’t mean I can’t do it; it simply means, I can’t do it with them. ― Karen E. Quinones Miller
48. I remind myself to be kind to myself, and as slightly ridiculous as it may sound, to treat myself in the same gentle way I’d want to treat a daughter of mine. It really helps. – Emma Stone
49. Being comfortable in your own skin is one of the most important things to achieve. I’m still working on it!—Kate Mara
50. Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.- Lucille Ball
51. Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness. – Oprah
52. She would rather walk alone in darkness than follow anyone else’s shadow. – R. G. Moon
53. Pain shapes a woman into a warrior. R. H. Sin
54. I love my body, and I would never change anything about it. I’m not asking you to like my body. I’m just asking you to let me be me.—Serena Williams
55. I keep telling myself that I’m a human being, an imperfect human who’s not made to look like a doll, and that who I am as a person is more important than whether at that moment I have a nice figure.—Emma Watson
56. I always feel confident. I never allow myself to not feel confident.—Amber Rose
57. God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for me? My limbs work, so I’m not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.—Drew Barrymore
58. Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars. Les Brown
59. I have learned that to get out of life what I expect, I must commit myself to beginning each day by concentrating on positive thoughts and focusing on my goals. – Les Brown
60. If you have the ability to love, love yourself first. – Charles Bukowski
61. To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness – Robert Morley
62. Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can’t love and respect yourself – no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are – completely; the good and the bad – and make changes as YOU see fit – not because you think someone else wants you to be different. – Stacey Charter
63. One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself. – Shannon L. Alder
64. When you make a mistake, respond to yourself in a loving way rather than a self-shaming way. – Ellie Holcomb
65. If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person. – Fred Rogers
66. Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. – M. Scott Peck
67. If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy. – Kristin Chenoweth
68. To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength. ― Criss Jami
69. To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. – Thich Nhat Hanh
70. Do your thing and don’t care if they like it. – Tina Fey
71. I had to grow to love my body. I did not have a good self-image at first. Finally it occurred to me, I’m either going to love me or hate me. And I chose to love myself. Then everything kind of sprung from there. Things that I thought weren’t attractive became sexy. Confidence makes you sexy. – Queen Latifah
72. Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on. – Maxwell Maltz
73. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right here – Venus Williams
74. Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit. ― Shannon L. Alder
75. No one will take better care of your dream than you. – Les Brown
76. No other version, no matter how perfect it is, would ever feel better than being your true self.– Edmond Mbiaka
77. Take care not to listen to anyone who tells you what you can and can’t be in life.– Meg Medina
78. If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.– Frank Zappa
79. Be who you were created to be, and you will set the world on fire.– St. Catherine of Sienna
80. Do your thing and don’t care if they like it. – Tina Fey
81. When you’re different, sometimes you don’t see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn’t. – Jodi Picoult
82. When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier. – Diane Von Furstenberg
83. The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. – C.G. Jung
84. Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that can’t accept who you are. – Turcois Ominek
85. Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself – what you’re wearing, who you’re around, what you’re doing. Recreate and repeat. – Warsan Shire
86. I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don’t have self-love, and respect for everything about your own body, your own soul, your own capsule, then how can you have an authentic relationship with anyone else? – Shailene Woodley
87. Our first and last love is self-love. – Christian Nestell Bovee
88. If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me? – Maya Angelou
89. Respect yourself and others will respect you. – Confucius
90. As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
91. The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.”Ayn Rand
92. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. – Sylvia Plath
93. Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. ― Norman Vincent Peale
94. The only thing that’s keeping you from getting what you want is the story you keep telling yourself. – Tony Robbins
95. Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong. – Petere T. Mcintyre
96. The quickest way to acquire self-confidence is to do exactly what you are afraid to do. – Anon
97. No one will believe in you until you believe in you. – Robin Sharma
98. If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don’t want to be. – Dale Carnegie
99. We are what we believe we are – C.S. Lewis
100. We were all born with a certain degree of power. The key to success is discovering this innate power and using it daily to deal with whatever challenges come our way. – Les Brown