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

Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image.

There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.

When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character.

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

The highest form of development is to govern one's self.

But when one believes that you've been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that?

I never had any question that my parents loved me. I had a real sense of self confidence.

Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes, where a woman's personality and sense of self are revealed. I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.

For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.

A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

I think I'm much less self confident today. I actually went through a quite painful period because of that thinking that I was completely hopeless. But I think that's something that we all go through at various times of our lives and it was quite a sustained thing with me.

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth.