No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

I am the miracle.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.

Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

I think everybody’s weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.

When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.

Let nothing dim the light that shines from within.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?

It ain't what they call you it's what you answer to.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

You are your own best friend. Never ever, put yourself down.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

If we lose love and self-respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Who looks outside dreams, who looks inside awakes.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability, he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, define yourself.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended, yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.

I meant what I said, and I said what I meant.

Give up a member to save a family, a family to save a village, a village to save a country, and the country to save yourself.

Don't forget to love yourself.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness, as to earn peace and self-respect.

Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors, they can be smelled.

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

I didn't have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager as I think most teen-agers don't.

The bad man is continually at war with and in opposition to himself.

Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.

Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one as yet is suspicious.

Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence, and more than any other one thing, a smile reassures them.

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

You are you. Now, isn’t that pleasant?

Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.

It's hard to be humble when you're as great as I am.

I'm young; I'm handsome; I'm fast. I can't possibly be beat.

I  am a man more sinned against than sinning.

People who want the most approval get the least, and people who need approval the least get the most.

Self-respect knows no considerations.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient

I have great faith in fools, self-confidence my friends call it.

People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self esteem.

Never be bullied into silence.

'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

Oh God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it's unbelievable!

I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside dreams, who looks inside awakes.

In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.