Top 200 Self-Esteem Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

— Carl R. Rogers

102. “Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it.”

— Maya Angelou

103. “Make a wish with all your heart and chase every dream you have. Only you can reach your goals. No one else can achieve them for you.”

— Demi Lovato

104. “Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.”

— John Wooden

105. “To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

106. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the one who’ll decide where to go.”

— Dr. Seuss

107. “I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.”

— Kurt Cobain

108. “Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.”

— Robert Tew

109. “Believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic.”

— Brené Brown

110. “Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists. It is real. It is possible. It’s yours.”

— Ayn Rand

111. “Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.”

— Les Brown

112. “Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

113. “You don’t need to be better than anyone else; you just need to be better than you used to be.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

114. “Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”

— Ayn Rand

115. “You don't become what you want, you become what you believe.”

— Oprah Winfrey

116. “You can’t make someone feel good about themselves until you feel good about yourself.”

— Robin S. Sharma

117. “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”

— Oprah Winfrey

118. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”

— William James

119. “Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

— A. A. Milne

120. “All is well. Everything is working out for my highest good. Out of this situation only good will come. I am safe!”

— Louise Hay

121. “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”

— Lucille Ball

122. “I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.”

— Louise Hay

123. “Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed to develop yourself.”

— Denis Waitley

124. “Work hard, be yourself, and have fun!”

— Michelle Kwan

125. “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”

— Maya Angelou

126. “Don’t forget, a person’s greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

127. “It’s not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.”

— Zig Ziglar

128. “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”

— E.E. Cummings

129. “Embrace the glorious mess that you are.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

130. “If you conquer yourself, then you conquer the world.”

— Paulo Coelho

131. “We are what our thoughts have made us.”

— Swami Vivekananda

132. “People who feel good about themselves produce good results.”

— Kenneth H. Blanchard

133. “Kid, you’ll move mountains.”

— Dr. Seuss

134. “Be yourself, no matter what they say.”

— Sting

135. “Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.”

— Mary Kay Ash

136. “If they don’t like you for being yourself, be yourself even more.”

— Taylor Swift

137. “No one is you, and that is your power.”

— Dave Grohl

138. “You have something special, you have GREATNESS within you!”

— Les Brown

139. “Still I’ll rise.”

— Maya Angelou

140. “The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.”

— Kobe Bryant

141. “There are no limits on what you can achieve with your life, except the limits you accept in your mind.”

— Brian Tracy

142. “Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think.”

— Buddha

143. “All that matters is how you see yourself.”

— Conor McGregor

144. “No one rises to low expectations.”

— Les Brown

145. “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”

— Virginia Woolf

146. “Find out who you are and do it on purpose.”

— Dolly Parton

147. “You are enough. You are so enough, it is unbelievable how enough you are.”

— Sierra Boggess

148. “I am different, not less.”

— Temple Grandin

149. “You either walk inside your story and own it or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness.”

— Brené Brown

150. “Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you.”

— Osho