SELF-ESTEEM
Quotes
1
We shall have our manhood.
— Eldridge Cleaver
2
The greatest possession is self-possession.
— Ethel Watts Mumford
3
He who despises himself esteems himself as a self- despiser.
— Susan Sontag
4
Of all the traps and pitfalls in life, self-disesteem is the deadliest, and hardest to overcome, for it is a pit designed and dug by our own hands, summed up in the phrase, “It’s no use—I can’t do it.”
— Maxwell Maltz
5
Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.
— Van Wyck Brooks
6
Many purchasers of self-help books are grappling with a creeping, leaden feeling that life is passing them by. . . . Why, these purchasers ask, am I not a glittering presence? Why do I not have an ostentatiously large and tastelessly furnished house full of sullen hangers-on?
— Colin McEnroe
7
Psychoanalysis shows the human infant as the passive recipient of love, unable to bear hostility. Development is learning to love actively and to bear rejection.
— Karl Stern
8
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something that one finds. It is something that one creates.
— Thomas Szasz
9
Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.
— Eric Hoffer
10
Justice is always violent to the offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
— Daniel Defoe
11
The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without.
— Elbert Hubbard
Sayings
1
When a man falls in love with himself, it’s usually the beginning of a lifelong romance.
2
The minute you get the idea you’re indispensable, you aren’t.
Jokes
1
If you think nobody cares you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
2
The trendy dresser fancied himself quite a ladykiller, and was delighted to find a note pinned inside a brand-new shirt. It contained a girl’s name and address, and asked the recipient to send a photograph. “How romantic,” he thought to himself, very taken with the idea of this mystery woman so eager to meet him, and promptly mailed off a note and photo.
Heart aflutter, he opened her response. It read, “Thanks for writing. I was just curious to see what kind of guy would buy such a funny shirt.”