Top 200 Self-Esteem Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Respect yourself and others will respect you.”

— Confucius

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Short Motivational Quotes

2. “Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.”

— Buddha

Also featured in: Spiritual Growth Quotes, Empowerment Quotes, Spirituality Quotes

3. “You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.”

— Lou Holtz

Also featured in: Confidence Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Powerful Motivational Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes

4. “Self care isn’t selfish. It’s self esteem.”

— Ashley Judd

Also featured in: Self-Care Quotes, Self-Worth Quotes, Self-Love Quotes, Focus On Yourself Quotes

5. “Action will destroy your procrastination.”

— Og Mandino

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Action Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes

6. “You are the most influential person you will talk to all day.”

— Zig Ziglar

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Positive Life Quotes

7. “If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.”

— William James

Also featured in: Quality Quotes, Sunday Motivational Quotes, Tuesday Motivational Quotes

8. “Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Also featured in: Yoga Quotes

9. “Self-esteem and self-love are the opposites of fear; the more you like yourself, the less you fear anything.”

— Brian Tracy

Also featured in: Positivity Quotes, Self-Worth Quotes, Self-Love Quotes

10. “Always concentrate on the most valuable use of your time. This is what separates the winners from the losers. Self-esteem is the reputation you have with yourself.”

— Brian Tracy

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Mindset Quotes, Winning Quotes

11. “You’re not free, unless you come to the place where you have nothing to prove.”

— Joyce Meyer

12. “Never, never, never give in!”

— Winston Churchill

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Giving Up Quotes

13. “If you have a strong belief in yourself, in what you are doing and what you want to do, no adversity is too difficult to overcome.”

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Attitude Quotes, Strong Quotes

14. “Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.”

— Michel de Montaigne

Also featured in: Confidence Quotes

15. “Man is not made for defeat.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Willpower Quotes, Character Quotes

16. “I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.”

— Walt Whitman

Also featured in: Emotion Quotes, Identity Quotes, Quotes About Humanity, Appreciation Quotes

17. “High self-esteem comes from feeling like you have control over events, not that events have control over you.”

— Tony Robbins

Also featured in: Confidence Quotes, Short Positive Quotes, Empowerment Quotes

18. “The solution to low self-esteem is to get over yourself and get a higher purpose.”

— Marianne Williamson

Also featured in: Purpose Quotes

19. “It’s not about eating healthy to lose weight. It’s about eating healthy to feel good.”

— Demi Lovato

Also featured in: Wellness Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Women, Health Quotes

20. “Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.”

— Helen Keller

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Science Quotes

21. “We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.”

— Stevie Wonder

Also featured in: Short Quotes, Live Life Quotes, Empowerment Quotes, Good Morning Inspirational Quotes

22. “What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.”

— Scott Westerfeld

Also featured in: Positivity Quotes, Mindset Quotes, Good Morning Inspirational Quotes, Beauty Quotes

23. “Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

Also featured in: Self-Care Quotes, Psychology Quotes, Self-Worth Quotes

24. “No man is free who is not master of himself.”

— Epictetus

Also featured in: Wise Quotes, Epic Quotes, Self Control Quotes

25. “The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.”

— Walt Disney

Also featured in: Self-Worth Quotes, Feel Good Quotes, Positive Motivation Quotes

26. “You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Confidence Quotes, Care Quotes, Self-Love Quotes

27. “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.”

— Buddha

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Self-Worth Quotes, Self-Love Quotes

28. “I give myself permission to be all that I can be, and I deserve the very best in life.”

— Louise Hay

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes for Women, Transformation Quotes, Self-Worth Quotes, Self-Love Quotes

29. “You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”

— Louise Hay

Also featured in: Self-Love Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Women, You Are Amazing Quotes

30. “Look in the mirror and tell yourself how wonderful you are.”

— Louise Hay

Also featured in: Self-Care Quotes, Self-Love Quotes, Focus On Yourself Quotes, Wellness Quotes

31. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Integrity Quotes, Interesting Quotes

32. “Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.”

— Osho

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Self-Love Quotes, Self-Realization Quotes

33. “To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.”

— E.E. Cummings

Also featured in: Be Yourself Quotes, Encouragement Quotes, Identity Quotes, Sunday Inspirational Quotes

34. “I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.”

— Muhammad Ali

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Empowering Quotes

35. “Just because you have failed, that doesn’t make you a failure. And just because you have lost, that doesn’t make you a loser.”

— Eric Thomas

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Failure Quotes, Attitude Quotes

36. “You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.”

— Brené Brown

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Psychology Quotes, Self-Love Quotes, Emotional Quotes

37. “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.”

— Christian D. Larson

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Courage Quotes, Focus Quotes, Positivity Quotes

38. “Sometimes it just feels so amazing to finally stand up for yourself. I highly recommend it. Life is too short to be taken for granted.”

— Demi Lovato

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Positivity Quotes, Personality Quotes, Quotes About Feelings

39. “To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.”

— Dave Pelzer

Also featured in: Moving On Quotes, Being Yourself Quotes, Moving Forward Quotes, Mistake Quotes

40. “It is only when you have mastered the art of loving yourself that you can truly love others. It's only when you have opened your own heart that you can touch the hearts of others. When you feel centered and alive, you are in much better position to be a better person.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Self-Worth Quotes, Self-Love Quotes

41. “You are free. You are powerful. You are good. You are love. You have value. You have purpose. All is well.”

— Esther Hicks

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Optimistic Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes, Feel Good Quotes

42. “I deserve the best and I accept the best now.”

— Louise Hay

Also featured in: Optimistic Quotes, Positive Life Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Emotion Quotes

43. “Tired of being unhappy? Fix it.”

— Demi Lovato

Also featured in: Positivity Quotes, Personal Responsibility Quotes, Being Happy Quotes

44. “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”

— Leo Buscaglia

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Focus Quotes, Relationship Quotes, Short Positive Quotes

45. “Don’t just accept whatever comes your way in life. You were born to win; you were born for greatness; you were created to be a champion in life.”

— Joel Osteen

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Prosperity Quotes

46. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Quotes About Strength, Confidence Quotes, Attitude Quotes

47. “To love yourself, truly love yourself, is to finally discover the essence of personal courage, self-respect, integrity, and self-esteem. These are the qualities of grace that come directly from a soul with stamina.”

— Caroline Myss

Also featured in: Self-Care Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Women, Self-Realization Quotes, Wellness Quotes

48. “Love yourself, accept yourself, forgive yourself, and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.”

— Leo Buscaglia

Also featured in: Care Quotes, Self-Love Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Feel Good Quotes

49. “You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I’ll rise!”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Moving On Quotes

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

— Oprah Winfrey

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes for Women, Emotional Quotes, Empowerment Quotes