(160 quotes found)
“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
“Love yourself first and everything falls into line”
Lucille Ball
“Be content to seem what you really are”
Marcus Aurelius
“The strongest single factor in prosperity consciousness is self-esteem: believing you can do it, believing you deserve it, believing you will get it”
Jerry Gillies
“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
“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
“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
“The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment, it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.”
Orison Swett Marden
“I never loved another person the way I loved myself.”
Mae West
“Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.”
Nathaniel Branden