Quotes & Sayings About Positive Self Esteem

Dance with your rhythm. — Lailah Gifty Akita

All times are sacred; good times or bad times. — Lailah Gifty Akita

May you climb higher heights. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Focus on your strength and maximum its potential. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Gracious words nourish the soul. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If you lose faith, then you begin to fear. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Believe in yourself. You can make it in life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

What a great pleasure to work for your living? — Lailah Gifty Akita

Make a conscious effort to think, speak and act in affirmative manner. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Tell yourself ' I can'. And you will be capable to act. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We are all capable! — Lailah Gifty Akita

Dwell on your own sacred thoughts. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Be assertive, in speech and in conduct. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You can develop a positive self image with positive thoughts. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Positive goals lead to positive actions for purposeful life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Stand fast, firm and steadfast. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Blaming others for your low self-esteem, for your lack of money, for being overweight, or for feeling bad, is NOT going to make your life better. Take responsibility. Work on it. The choice is yours. — Maddy Malhotra

Positive Eye Contact Quality time should include loving eye contact. Looking in your child's eyes with care is a powerful way to convey love from your heart to the heart of your child. Studies have shown that most parents use eye contact in primarily negative ways, either while reprimanding a child or giving very explicit instructions. If you give loving looks only when your child is pleasing you, you are falling into the trap of conditional love. That can damage your child's personal growth. You want to give enough unconditional love to keep your child's emotional tank full, and a key way to do this is through proper use of eye contact. Sometimes family members refuse to look at one another as a means of punishment. This is destructive to both adults and children. Kids especially interpret withdrawal of eye contact as disapproval, and this further erodes their self-esteem. Don't let your demonstration of — Gary Chapman

Dancing every night enhances a positive energy. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Don't water your weeds — Harvey MacKay

Positive mindset, positive attitude and positive action. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Why don't we learn about the mental health which affects every minute of our lives? ... Where is the school for learning [about] positive mental health? — Maddy Malhotra

Learn to love yourself. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Positive self-esteem must be preceded by self-respect. To get self-respect you have to do something good. — Louis Zamperini

Sin drains strength. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Trust your sacred-soul. It is truest divine self. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You are what you think of yourself. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The idea that positive illusions are in the service of sef-esteem virtually requires that they stay in check. If one develops substantially unrealistic expectations regarding the future that greatly exceed what one is actually able to accomplish, then one is set up for failure and disappointment, leading to lower self-esteem. — Shelley E. Taylor

You are God's special possession. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Your mental diet largely determines your character and your personality and almost everything that happens to you in life. When you feed your mind with positive affirmations, information, books, conversations, audio programs, and thoughts, you develop a more positive attitude and personality. You become more influential and persuasive. You enjoy greater confidence and self-esteem. — Brian Tracy

Dreams are divine thoughts. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I recall the Scriptures into my mind, therefore, I have hope. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Do not hide behind any mask — Lailah Gifty Akita

You only have to view life in a positive way. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Be you. And everything will be divine-self. — Lailah Gifty Akita

May you occupy your mind with positive words. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Surround yourself with positive and productive people. — Renee Hines

Every morning, look in the mirror.
You are beautiful and wonderful. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It is better to engaged you mind on positive thoughts. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A positive self image and healthy self esteem is based on approval, acceptance and recognition from others; but also upon actual accomplishments, achievements and success upon the realistic self confidence which ensues. — Abraham Maslow

May you find the grace of triumph over any situation. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Exploring Feelings for Young Children with High-Functioning Autism or Asperger's Disorder: The STAMP Treatment Manual offers practical recommendations and creative practices that will certainly help young children with high functioning autism or Asperger's syndrome overcome their struggles with the really tough issues blocking their positive growth and development. Therapists, educators and parents caring for autistic children who endure a heavy load of anger, distrust, difficult interpersonal relationships, poor self-esteem and self-doubt need this excellent book. — Liane Holliday Willey

My light must shine, so that the darkness will disappear. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I think that giving mindless praise is ridiculous. But I understand why parents do it. They want their kids to feel good about themselves. But parents are never going to teach their children true, positive self esteem by praising everything they do. — Rosalind Wiseman

Great spirit, great self-esteem. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Personal force, determined spirit and self confidence are your greatest self. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Believe in yourself. Under-confidence leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy that you are not good enough for your work. — Roopleen

To be able to live each day with honor, respect and dignity is the greatest achievement of all. — Roopleen

Go where you are wanted and stray from where you aren't. Surround yourself with positive people and environments. — Demi Lovato

Renew your mind with positive thoughts. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You must rise up anytime you fall. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There is no greater species better crafted for emotional terrorism than women. We slice away at the Achilles until our victims are left feeling completely devoid of value and unfit for love, friendship, and in extreme cases, air. We've been bred to see others' successes as a direct assault to our own, and this is especially true when it comes to weight. Seeing someone who is heavier than us viewing themselves in a positive light is detrimental to our own self-esteem. So we attack and tear down until eventually that person feels as bad about herself as we do about ourselves. — Brittany Gibbons

When you think positively, you attract divine forces for a positive lifestyle. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When social software becomes a component of formal education, students and teachers interact with one another in more meaningful ways, creating a variety of positive results. Ted Panitz (1997) details over 67 benefits from engaging in collective learning, arguing that collaborating reduces anxiety, builds self-esteem, enhances student satisfaction, and fosters positive relationships between students and faculty. — Jon Dron

Every disappointment is a spiritual awakening. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Believe is possibilities. — Lailah Gifty Akita

As spouses, we play a big role in the development of each other's self-confidence, self-esteem, and self-worth. An entire personality can be destroyed and a marriage ripped apart over the course of just months. It's important that husbands and wives take this subject seriously and learn to build each other up through the simple concepts of dating. It's critical that the older we get, the younger we feel. As the years pass, our attitudes towards each other and our relationships should become more positive and our lives more meaningful. — Lindsey Rietzsch

I found the sections on aging, relationships, and procrastinating especially helpful. I really found the tips and suggestions very helpful, inspiring, positive, and motivating. Yes, I would definitely recommend it. — Karen Lewis

A person who really likes himself or herself has high self-esteem and therefore a positive self-concept. When you really like yourself in a particular role, you perform at your best in that role. — Brian Tracy

Keep your thoughts pure. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Dwell on good thoughts. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Canadian researchers found those with low self-esteem actually felt worse after repeating positive statements about themselves. They said phrases such as "I am a lovable person" only helped people with high self-esteem. The study appeared in the journal Psychological Science. ... They found that, paradoxically, those with low self-esteem were in a better mood when they were allowed to have negative thoughts than when they were asked to focus exclusively on affirmative thoughts. ... Repeating positive self-statements may benefit certain people, such as individuals with high self-esteem, but backfire for the very people who need them the most. — Augusten Burroughs

Do not despise your gift. We are all valuable. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Your opinions about me does not change who I am. I am God's special possession. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You are capable beyond measure. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You are capable of anything. Dream great dreams. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You can develop positive mindset with reading of awe-inspired writings. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Be you! You are a heavenly being. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The more you lose, the more positive you have to become. When you're winning, you can ride players harder because their self-esteem is high. If you are losing and you try to be tough, you're asking for dissension. — Rick Pitino

To be born again means that we must be changed from a negative to a positive self-image - from inferiority to self-esteem, from fear to love, from doubt to trust. — Robert H. Schuller

You don't' have to fear. You only need to have faith. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Positive affirmation, positive lifestyle. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Never allow anyone to look down upon you. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It is hard to feel bad about yourself when you are doing something good for someone else. There are a lot of ways to lift your self-esteem, but making a positive difference in another's life has got to be my best leadership guidance. Serving others and working to add value to them will lift your spirits in a way that nothing else will. Trust me on this one. — John C. Maxwell

The Games are just a nice, positive way to build friendships, camaraderie and, of course, self-esteem. Plus, the Games are a great opportunity for people to participate in sports who normally wouldn't. — Greg Louganis

When your goal is to build people up, to make them feel better, to share in their joy, you too reap the rewards of their positive feelings. The next time you have the chance to correct someone, even if their facts are a little off, resist the temptation. Instead, ask yourself, "What do I really want out of this interaction?" Chances are, what you want is a peaceful interaction where all parties leave feeling good. Each time you resist 'being right,' and instead choose kindness, you'll notice a peaceful feeling within. — Richard Carlson

Don't dwell too much on the past. The lessons are useful for the present and a preparation for the future. Move on! — Lailah Gifty Akita

Your self-worth and self-esteem cannot be changed by doing positive affirmations. If that were the case many people would be super confident and are not. It may appear to work for some, but only because they have already faced the hurts inside that have caused low self-worth and low self-esteem, and are ready to feel differently.

Acknowledging the pain and the suffering that take place inside you, and allowing the feelings, will take time, but this new way of handling these feelings will change the way you relate to you and to the outside world. — Kelly Martin

Your confidence is your greatest self. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You are condemn your by thoughts. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Be you. You are a holy-self. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Much popular self-help literature normalizes sexism. Rather than linking habits of being, usually considered innate, to learned behavior that helps maintain and support male domination, they act as those these difference are not value laden or political but are rather inherent and mystical. In these books male inability and/or refusal to honestly express feelings is often talked about as a positive masculine virtue women should learn to accept rather than a learned habit of behavior that creates emotional isolation and alienation ... Self-help books that are anti-gender equality often present women's overinvestment in nurturance as a 'natural,' inherent quality rather than a learned approach to caregiving. Much fancy footwork takes place to make it seem that New Age mystical evocations of yin and yang, masculine and feminine androgyny, and so on, are not just the same old sexist stereotypes wrapped in more alluring and seductive packaging. — Bell Hooks

Renew your mind with the word of God. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Self-acceptance means fully accepting yourself no matter what your traits or how you perform or achieve. It does not mean self-esteem, self-confidence, or self-regard. These terms imply that you accept yourself because you perform or behave in a specific way or because people accept you based on your achievements. Self-acceptance means that you non-judgmentally accept yourself for who you are without rating or evaluating yourself, or requiring the approval of others. — Lee A. Wilkinson

Don't take to heart, any negative criticism. Focus on positive thoughts — Lailah Gifty Akita

Happiness is a choice you make when you allow faith through the entry gate and fear through the exit gate. — Roopleen

Rewriting the negative beliefs you have learned is the essence of becoming the director of your life. — Deborah Day

We all make mistakes. We must keep finding the right paths. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Positive thoughts revive the spirit, restore the soul and make the body healthy. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the God of grace. — Brennan Manning

Put on your lips success creeds every day. Never see yourself as an unworthy being, incapable of receiving good gifts from God. — Israelmore Ayivor

The hearts and thoughts are the sacred springs of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Renew your mind daily by reading the Holy Scriptures. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Here's a little secret that's going to save you a LOT of unnecessary grief in life. Are you ready? Your worth is not tied to any person. — Mandy Hale

Let your spirit be great. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I am wonderful creation of God. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The most important key to the permanent enhancement of self esteem is the practice of positive inner-talk. — Denis Waitley

You are special child. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Social media websites are no longer performing an envisaged function of creating a positive communication link among friends, family and professionals. It is a veritable battleground, where insults fly from the human quiver, damaging lives, destroying self-esteem and a person's sense of self-worth. — Anthony Carmona

With self-courage, self-confidence and self-will, you will master the act. — Lailah Gifty Akita