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"self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential." »Bette Midler
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"I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite goodMaybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder." »Jay Leno
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"It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem-and in my esteem age is not estimable." »George Gordon Byron
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"Total self-esteem requires total and unconditional acceptance of yourself. You are a unique and worthy individual, regardless of your mistakes, defeats and failures, despite what others may think, say or feel about you or your behavior. If you truly accept and love yourself, you won't have a driving need for attention and approval. self-esteem is a genuine love of self. Stop all adverse value judging of yourself. Stop accepting the adverse value judgments of others. Purge yourself of all condemnation, shame, blame, guilt & remorse." »Unknown
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"self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves." »Nathaniel Branden
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"Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant." »J. Petit-Senn
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"That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly." »Unknown
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"In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned." »Jane Haddam
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"What we obtain too cheap we esteem too little it is dearness only that gives everything its value." »Thomas Paine
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"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. It is dearness only that gives everything its value." »Thomas Paine, "The American Crisis"
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"The best conduct a man can adopt is that which gains him the esteem of others without depriving him of his own." »The Talmud
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"...love without esteem cannot go far or reach high. It is an angel with only one wing." »Alexandre Dumas
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"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company." »George Washington
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"Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect." »Henry Adams
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"Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt." »Henry Bolingbroke
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"The reward for doing right is mostly an internal phenomenon: self-respect, dignity, integrity, and self- esteem." »Dr. Laura Schlessinger
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"Never esteem anything as an advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect." »Marcus Aelius Aurelius
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"Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the esteem of others, or rather only then will it come of its own accord." »Albert Einstein
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"Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed" »Sir W. Temple
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"Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish." »Sam Walton
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"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently." »Friedrich Nietzsche
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"To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives." »Denis Watley
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"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly... it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as Freedom should not be highly rated." »Thomas Paine
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"Parents need to fill a child's bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can't poke enough holes in it to drain it dry." »Alvin Price
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"The sage wears clothes of coarse cloth but carries jewels in his bosom He knows himself but does not display himself He loves himself but does not hold himself in high esteem." »Lao Tzu
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"Wisdom is supreme therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt your embrace her and she will honor you." »Proverbs 47-8
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"Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward." »Dr. Laura Schlessinger
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"There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors....But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity." »Claude Adrien Helvetius
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"Even a blockhead may respect inspire, So long as he is suitably attired; A fool may gain esteem among the wise, So long as he has sense to hold his tongue." »The Hitopadesa
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"Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge." »Fritz Perls
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