Self-esteem is the brave act of belonging to yourself. As Johann von Goethe once said, “If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.” These quotes carry that same message — your truest strength is being fully, faithfully you. 🌟

How would your life change if your self-esteem improved? ~ Caroline Myss

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. Some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go further than people with vastly superior talent. ~ Sophia Loren

You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it. ~ Barbra Streisand

There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun. ~ Thomas Merton

Never follow the crowd. ~ Bernard M. Baruch

I never stop to wonder why I’m not like other people. The mystery to me is why more people aren’t like me. ~ Florynce Kennedy

Take your work seriously, but never yourself. ~ Dame Margot Fonteyn

Love yourself. Respect yourself. Never sell yourself short. Believe in yourself regardless of what people think. You can accomplish anything, absolutely anything, if you set your mind to it. ~ Marcus Allen

Should we say the self, once perceived, becomes the soul? ~ Theodore Roethke

It is the mark of a superior person that, left to themselves, they are able endlessly to amuse, interest and entertain themselves out of their personal stock of meditations, ideas, criticisms, memories, philosophy, humor and what not. ~ George Jean Nathan

A true person never frets about place in the world, but slides into it by the gravitation of nature, and swings there as easily as a star. ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Accept no one’s definition of your life; but rather define yourself. ~ Harvey Fierstein

You will make a lousy anybody else, but you are the best you in existence. You are the only one who can use your ability. It is an awesome responsibility. ~ Zig Ziglar

You too are a work of art. ~ Bernie S. Siegel

You may find your best friend or your worst enemy in yourself. ~ English Proverb