Self-esteem is not a pose. It is a practice—choosing self-respect, again and again, until it feels like home. One luminous line from Audrey Hepburn sets the tone: “Always be a first-rate version of yourself. ✨
Embrace and love all of yourself—past, present, and future. Forgive yourself quickly and as often as necessary. Encourage yourself. Tell yourself good things about yourself. ~ Melody Beattie
I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do. ~ Helen Keller
There’s a treasury full of jade and jewels; it is in you. Don’t go searching far from home for it—it’s here. ~ The Buddha
Just be yourself. ~ Tiger Woods
Everybody held up a mirror and I accepted the image that came back. It finally dawned on me that my reflection in others’ eyes was the truth once removed. ~ Richard Moran
Self-reverence, self knowledge, self-control. These three alone lead life to sovereign power. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. What I am, I am. ~ Sitting Bull
While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues. ~ Heinrich Heine
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
I wish that I was where I am. ~ Gertrude Stein
Find out who you are and live by this knowledge. ~ Adrian Lukis
Low self esteem involves imagining the worst that other people can think about you. ~ Roger Ebert
Getting the pretty back is about getting back in touch with your essential self: the part of you that knows what you really want. ~ Molly Ringwald
You can’t lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse. ~ John Peers
You can never enslave somebody who knows who they are. ~ Alex Haley
You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself. ~ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
You are what you are and not what people think you are. ~ O.W. Polen