(218 quotes found)
“I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it--and that's all I got.”
Sabrina Ward Harrison
“Love yourself first and everything falls into line”
Lucille Ball
“Be content to seem what you really are”
Marcus Aurelius
“If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.”
Barbara De Angelis
“I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”
Maya Angelou
“That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.”
Proverb
“He who does not think too much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“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
“Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.”
Nathaniel Branden
“You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, "I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself."”
Mariah Carey
