Quotes & Sayings About Overcoming Low Self-esteem

Ben Carson actually lost a tooth. Which explains why he said that under his leadership, Americans would be entitled to 'life, liberty, and the purthuit of happineth.' — Jimmy Fallon

When I needed to overcome the low expectations of others or the bias that would be expressed in one circumstance or another, I'd keep on keeping on. And I climb over the obstacle, go around it, dig under it, fly over it. That's what kept me going. Otherwise I would have never been an astrophysicist. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Making reading an enjoyable activity for children is a challenge. So I ensure that I write in a way that is fun for children to read. — Ken Spillman

We are the ones who have distanced ourselves from God and then we've blamed him for the distance. — Jason Upton

It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him. — Voltaire

The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem. — Bell Hooks

Here's what I say;
Someone has to be a rock star; it might as well be you;
Someone has to write books; it might as well be you;
And someone has to sleep with artists, and it might as well be you. So practice that instrument, write those words, put on those heels, and go find something, or someone, to love. — Jamie Freveletti

It was just a tiny moment. Not a kiss, not even real contact. But for all the things it wasn't, it meant so much. — Sarah Dessen

Look in the mirror and stare at your eyes and say, "I can and will be successful." — Robert Cheeke

Eternal values, not temporal ones, should become the deciding factors for your decisions. — Rick Warren

The highest good is like water, for the good of water is that it nourishes everything without striving. It occupies the place which all men think bad [i.e., the lowest level].17 [102d] It is thus that Tao in the world is like a river going down the valley to the ocean.18 [102e] The most gentle thing in the world overrides the most hard.19 [102g] How do coves and oceans become kings of a hundred rivers? Because they are good at keeping low - That is how they are kings of the hundred rivers.20 [102f] Nothing in the world is weaker than water, But it has no better in overcoming the hard.21 [101a] — Alan W. Watts