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| 'Tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow; But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself | | William Shakespeare | |
| All neurotic symptoms have as their object the task of safeguarding the patient's self-esteem and thereby also the lifeline into which he has grown. | | Alfred Adler | |
| Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company. | | George Washington | |
| Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom | | Samuel Johnson | |
| Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment? | | Nelson Mandela | |
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| I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing. | | Michel de Montaigne | |
| I never loved another person the way I loved myself. | | Mae West | |
| In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned. | | Jane Haddam | |
| In order to be happy we require all kinds of supports to our self-esteem. We are human beings, therefore human beings are the purpose of god's creation | | Bertrand Russell | |
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| It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. | | Benjamin Franklin | |
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| Nobody can imitate me. You can always see impersonations of Katharine Hepburn and Marylin Monroe. But not me. Because I've always drawn on myself only. | | Joan Crawford | |
| Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment. | | Thomas Carlyle | |
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| Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it | | Gloria Steinem | |
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| That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own self-esteem | | Samuel Johnson | |
