100 Inspiring Self-Esteem Quotes to Boost Self-Worth and Self-Love

Self–esteem is important because it plays a critical role and heavily influences people’s choices and decisions. In other words, self–esteem serves as a inspiring function; by making it less or more likely that a person will take care of himself/herself and explore his/her full potential.  We have already discussed in our earlier posts about the how you can improve self-esteem and habits to nurture your self-esteem. In this posts I am going to cover self-esteem quotes.  I hope these famous inspirational quotes from your favorite authors and celebrities will certainly boost your self-worth and self-love.

Self-esteem Quotes

1. “Being worthy is not something you earn. It is something you recognize and believe in.” ~ Invajy

2. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” ~ George Eliot

3. “Respect yourself and others will respect you.” ~ Confucius

4. “Your worth is not a product of your appearance, your intelligence, your talent or how successful are you.” ~ Invajy

5. “Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.” ~ John Milton
6. “When you stop living your life based on what others think of you, your real life begins. At that moment, you will finally see the door of self-acceptance opened.” ~Shannon L. Alder
7. “It’s hard to give up the self-esteem connected to being codependent and appearing ‘right,’ which is probably a survival behavior learned from growing up in a crazy family. It feels like you will actually disappear.” ~ Melody Beattie
8. “Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.” ~ Eric Hoffer
9. “No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life’s slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.” ~ Martha Beck
10. “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

Inspiring Quotes about Self-esteem

11. “Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us… Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life.” ~ Nathaniel Branden
12. “I don’t think it’s a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.” ~ Tom Petty
13. “Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.” ~ Jack Canfield
14. “Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up.” ~ Jack Canfield
15. “Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a child.” ~ Halle Berry
16. “We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.” ~ Swami Vivekananda
17. “One of the most courageous things you can do is identify yourself, know who you are, what you believe in and where you want to go.” ~ Shiela Murray Bethel
18. “Start loving yourself and everything else will come.” ~ Lisa Lieberman-Wang
19. “People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not.” ~ Wayne Gerard Trotman
20. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotes to boost your self-esteem

21. “The biggest success factor in life is self-esteem: believing you deserve it, believing you can do it and believing you will achieve it.” ~ Invajy
22. “Negative thinking patterns can be immensely deceptive and persuasive, and change is rarely easy. But with patience and persistence, I believe that nearly all individuals suffering from depression can improve and experience a sense of joy and self-esteem once again.” ~ David D. Burns
23. “Self-esteem is crucial to how much or how little contentment you feel at the end of your life.” ~ Mark Goulston
24. “You can’t compare an apple to an orange. It will cause a lot of self-esteem issues.” ~ Craig Sheffer
25. “Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by a**holes.” ~ Sigmund Freud
26. “Self-esteem comes quietly, like the truth.” ~ Amity Gaige
27. “If you have a good self-esteem, you can be generous, you can give back and you can be productive in the world.” ~ Deborra-Lee Furness
28. “Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.” ~ Thomas Carlyle
29. “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” ~ Buddha
30. “Without love our self-esteem weakens. With out it our courage fails. Without love we can no longer look out confidently at the world.” ~ Chief Dan George

More self-esteem quotes

31. “Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.” ~ Nathaniel Branden
32. “Don’t back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for your beliefs builds self-confidence and self-esteem.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
33. “Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.” ~ Andre Gide
34. “How you feel about yourself determines your life choices.” ~ Amanda Ray
35. “Beauty begins the moment you decided to be yourself.” ~ Coco Chanel

36. “You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.” ~ Maya Angelou
37. “Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine. ” ~ Oprah Winfrey
38. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
39. “Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
40. “Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don’t base your self-esteem on their opinions.” ~ Harvey Mackay

Inspiring Self-Esteem Quotes

41. “You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can’t have it.” ~ Dr. Robert Anthony
42. “Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.” ~ Jean Vanier
43. “It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.” ~ Sally Field
44. “Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.” ~ Margaret Thatcher
45. “One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.” ~ Shannon L. Alder
46. “I used to hate feeling embarrassed, but then I realized nobody’s watching and nobody gives a damn.” ~ Barbara Corcoran
47. “Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.” ~ Rob Liano
48. “Avoid focusing on what you cannot do. Instead, focus on what you can do and accomplish without expecting approval and recognition from others.” ~ Lisa Lieberman-Wang
49. “One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.” ~ Michael J. Fox
50. “To establish true self-esteem, we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.” ~ Denis Waitley

Self Esteem Quotes

51. “The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.” ~ Carl Gustav Jung
52. “To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections.” ~ Sandra Bierig
53. “The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.” ~ Melanie Koulouris
54. “You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.” ~ Diane Von Furstenberg
55. “Who you are inside is what helps you make and do everything in life.” ~ Fred Rogers
56. “I think everybody’s weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.” ~  Johnny Depp
57. “The world will never value you more than you value yourself.” ~ Bill Masur
58. “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” ~ Lucille Ball
59. “People who want the most approval get the least and the people who need approval the least get the most.”~  Wayne Dyer
60. “Self-esteem isn’t everything; it’s just that there’s nothing without it.” ~ Gloria Steinem

Positive Self Esteem Quotes

61. “Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” ~ Carl Gustav Jung
62. “Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
63. “To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don’t wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.” ~ Alan Cohen
64. “A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.” ~ Mark Twain
65. . “I never loved another person the way I loved myself.”~ Mae West
66. “Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.”~ Lucille Ball
67. “Self-esteem isn’t everything; it’s just that there’s nothing without it.” ~ Gloria Steinem
68. “The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.”~ Ayn Rand
69. “Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.” ~ Benjamin Spock
70. “Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.” ~ Dr. Roopleen

Low Self Esteem Quotes

71. “Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.” ~ Maxwell Maltz
72. “Never make this mistake of thinking that you elevate yourself by humiliating people.” ~ Robert Greene
73. “Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself.” ~ Anthony Trollope
74. “When I extend small kindness to others, I find it easier to like myself. If you feel that your self-esteem is low, try extending small kindness to strangers.” ~ Haemin Sunim
75. “Hiding, secrets, and not being able to be yourself is one of the worst things ever for a person. It gives you low self-esteem. You never get to reach that peak in your life. You should always be able to be yourself and be proud of yourself.” ~ Grace Jones
76. “I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good. Maybe you’re not the best, so you should work a little harder.” ~ Jay Leno
77. “Narcissism is not about self love. It’s a clinical trait that belies a deep sense of emptiness, low self-esteem, emotional detachment, self-loathing, extreme problems with intimacy.” ~ Drew Pinsky
78. “It is weakness that is the source of all selfishness.” ~ Swami Vivekananda
79. “You’ve been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”~ Louise Hay
80. “There are so many more important things to worry about than how you’re perceived by strangers.” ~ Dennis Lehane

Self-Esteem Quotes

81. “You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.” ~ Lou Holtz
82. “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself.” ~ Harvey Fierstein
83. “Don’t waste your energy trying to change opinions … Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.” ~ Tina Fey
84. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” ~ Maya Angelou
85. “Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.” ~ Fred Rogers
86. “Your sense of self-worth comes from you alone – never the opinion of others.” ~ Robert Greene
87. “Don’t let anyone make you feel that you don’t deserve the good things that happen in your life.” ~ Paulo Coelho
88. “A person’s self-esteem has nothing to do with how she looks. ” ~ Halle Berry
89. “Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” ~ Dr. Seuss
90. “When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

Self Esteem Quotes

91. “Listen to your heart above all other voices.” ~ Marta Kagan
92. “Self-trust is the first secret of success.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
93.  “Someone else’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.” ~ Les Brown
94.  “The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.” ~ Dr. Sonya Friedman
95. “You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.” ~ Brian Tracy
96. “Whether you think you can or think you can’t – you are right.” ~ Henry Ford
97. “If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.” ~Anonymous
98. “Too many people overvalue what they are not, and undervalue what they are.” ~ Malcolm Forbes
99. “The most important key to the permanent enhancement of esteem is the practice of positive inner-talk”. ~ Dennis Waitley
100. “The greatest success is successful self-acceptance.” ~ Ben Sweet

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