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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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom |
| Samuel Johnson |
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| 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 |
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| I never loved another person the way I loved myself. |
| Mae West |
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| In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned. |
| Jane Haddam |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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