Self Esteem Quotes and Sayings

When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.
Jake Steinfeld

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid.
 Albert Einstein

High self-esteem isn’t a luxury. It’s a necessity for anyone who has important goals to achieve.
Jack Canfield

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

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
Malcolm S. Forbes

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself.
Anthony Trollope

Instead of thinking about what you’re missing, try thinking about what you have that everyone else is missing.
Unknown

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. 
Michael Jordan

Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The first step toward being loved is learning to love what you see when you look in the mirror.
Tadahiko Nagao

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who who work with him. Don’t knock your friends. Don’t knock your enemies. Don’t knock yourself.
Alfred Tennyson

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be able to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.
Nathaniel Branden