"The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do."

- James Allen

"Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment."

- Thomas Carlyle

"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are."

- Malcolm S. Forbes

"That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem."

- Samuel Johnson

"Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on."

- Maxwell Maltz

"Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right."

- John Milton

"No one can make you feel inferior without your permission."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away."

- Charles Schwab

"The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work."

- Brian Tracy

"Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning."

- Anthony Trollope

"Trust yourself, then you will know how to live."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are."

- Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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

- Denis Waitley

"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."

- Sam Walton 

"There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self."

- Hindu Proverb

"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."

- Aldous Huxley

"Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable."

- Zig Ziglar

"Respect yourself if you would have others respect you."

- Baltasar Gracian

"Self pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in the world."

- Helen Keller

"Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world making the most of one's best."

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

"Self-respect is the fruit of discipline: the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."

- Abraham Heschel

"Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life."

- Joe Clark

"Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality."

- Les Brown

"Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can."

- Richard Bach

"A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves."

- Jean De La Bruyere

"Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem."

- Eric Hoffer

"First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe," three times."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this."

- A. C. Benson

"If you put a small value on yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price."

- Unknown Author

"Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized."

- Albert Einstein

"Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on."

- Maxwell Maltz

"Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning."

- Anthony Trollope

"No one can make you feel inferior without your permission."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment."

- Thomas Carlyle