Top 200 Self-Esteem Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Never let someone’s opinion become your reality. Never sacrifice who you are because someone else has a problem with it. Love who you are inside and out.”

— Les Brown

52. “Go where you are wanted and stray from where you aren’t. Surround yourself with positive people and environments.”

— Demi Lovato

53. “Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!”

— Dr. Seuss

54. “Surround yourself with those who see greatness within you, even when you don’t see it yourself!”

— Zig Ziglar

55. “To acquire true self power you have to feel beneath no one, be immune to criticism and be fearless.”

— Deepak Chopra

56. “You playing small doesn’t serve the world. There’s nothing enlightening about shrinking so others won’t feel insecure around you. As you let your own light shine, you indirectly give others permission to do the same.”

— Marianne Williamson

57. “Worthiness doesn’t have prerequisites.”

— Brené Brown

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

— Denis Waitley

59. “Just be yourself, there is no one better.”

— Taylor Swift

60. “Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.”

— Jim Rohn

61. “Love yourself and you can heal your life.”

— Louise Hay

62. “Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”

— Alan Watts

63. “You may think there is a lot wrong with you, but there is also a lot right with you.”

— Joel Osteen

64. “You have something special. You have greatness in you. You have the ability to do more than you can ever begin to imagine.”

— Les Brown

65. “Whatever good things we build end up building us.”

— Jim Rohn

66. “We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.”

— Marianne Williamson

67. “Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn’t change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.”

— Brené Brown

68. “Let go of who you think you should be in order to be who you are. Be imperfect and have compassion for yourself. Connection is the result of authenticity.”

— Brené Brown

69. “I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.”

— Brené Brown

70. “I forgive myself for not being perfect. I am living the very best way I know how.”

— Louise Hay

71. “The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.”

— Rita Mae Brown

72. “Your opinion of yourself is your most important viewpoint. You are infinitely greater than you think you are.”

— Neville Goddard

73. “Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.”

— Maya Angelou

74. “I love and approve of myself. I love and approve of my body. I feed it nourishing foods and beverages. I exercise it in ways that are fun.”

— Louise Hay

75. “Always remember, actions speak louder than words. No one’s perfect, but we can all strive to be better people.”

— Demi Lovato

76. “I like you just the way you are.”

— Fred Rogers

77. “It’s a lie to think you’re not good enough. It’s a lie to think you’re not worth anything.”

— Nick Vujicic

78. “I release all fears and doubts. I accept myself and create peace in my mind and heart. I now choose to free myself from all destructive fears and doubts. I am loved and I am safe.”

— Louise Hay

79. “There is nothing in life so difficult that it cannot be overcome. This faith can move mountains. It can change people. It can change the world. You can survive all the great storms in your life.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

80. “Be willing to stop punishing yourself for your mistakes. Love yourself for your willingness to learn and grow.”

— Louise Hay

81. “Our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self acceptance.”

— Brené Brown

82. “Don’t workout because you think you ‘need’ to, do it because your body deserves love, respect and healthy attention.”

— Demi Lovato

83. “As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has-or ever will have-something inside that is unique to all time.”

— Fred Rogers

84. “A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.”

— Maya Angelou

85. “Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.”

— Zig Ziglar

86. “All powers are within you, you can do anything and everything.”

— Swami Vivekananda

87. “Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.”

— Bill Gates

88. “Self-esteem is that deep-down inside the skin feeling you have of your own self-worth.”

— Denis Waitley

89. “Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.”

— Carol Burnett

90. “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”

— Mark Twain

91. “If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.”

— Maya Angelou

92. “Positive anything is better than negative nothing.”

— Elbert Hubbard

93. “Scarcity of self value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention or influence.”

— Gary Zukav

94. “You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.”

— Robert Collier

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

— George Eliot

96. “We must overcome the notion that we must be regular. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.”

— Uta Hagen

97. “If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.”

— Charles Bukowski

98. “We are what we believe we are.”

— C. S. Lewis

99. “If you haven't confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started. ”

— Marcus Garvey

100. “There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”

— Nelson Mandela