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“An extremely important part of our work toward emotional growth and change will come from examining our belief systems regarding all areas of life. To gain the courage to be yourself, you need to address the beliefs that are keeping you stuck where you are. What beliefs, assumptions, and attitudes are you holding onto even though they no longer enhance your life? It is possible to free yourself from worn-out beliefs and acquire ones that bring happiness, strength, and self-esteem. What we believe we may become.”

“The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. What looks like a giving hand is often a holding on for dear life. Take away our holy duties and you leave our lives puny and meaningless. There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The hypocrite would not be at so much pains to put on the appearance of virtue, if he did not know it was the most proper and effectual means to gain the love and esteem of mankind.”

Ifs Knows Humans Mean Doe Pain Justice Virtue Mankind Human Nature Honor Gains Appearance Esteem Acknowledge Hypocrisy Hypocrite Ornaments

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“Our merit gains us the esteem of the virtuous-our star that of the public.”

Stars Gains Esteem Merit Virtuous Popularity

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“She that would raise a noble love must find Ways to beget a passion for her mind; She must be that which she to the world would seem, For all true love is grounded on esteem: Plainness and truth gain more a generous heart Than all the crooked subtleties of art.”

World Way Mind Heart Art Seems Passion Love Is Gains Raises Noble Esteem Generous Grounded Crooked Begets Subtlety True Love Is Plainness Generous Heart

Author:Theresa Villiers

“Children cannot be fooled by empty praise and condescending encouragement. They may have to accept artificial bolstering of their self-esteem in lieu of something better, but what I call their accruing ego identity gains real strength only from wholehearted and consistent recognition of real accomplishment, that is, achievement that has meaning in their culture.”

Source: Identity and the Life Cycle

“We are more put off by people who parade their dignity than by people who show off their wardrobes. When people have to trick themselves out to gain attention, it is a sure sign that they are unworthy of it. If we want to make ourselves worthy, we can do so only by the innate eminence conferred by virtue. We hold great people in esteem more for the qualities of their soul than for the qualities of their fortune.”

“The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.”

Literature Quality Gains Praise Esteem Chiefs Ingredients Composition Good Sense Breeding Good Nature Good Breeding

Author:Joseph Addison

“Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul’s possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we must only ever show our ugliest sides; this is how we keep ourselves on the common level”

Soul Shows Sides Levels Common Identity Gains Possession Esteem Delicate Modesty Egotism

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.”

Self Practice Doubt Self Esteem Humility Gains Believer Esteem Vanity No Doubt Selfless Self Centered Boundless True Believer Exchanging

Book:The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

Source: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

“Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.”

Love Persons Self Joy Values Love Is Existence Love You Self Esteem Expression Gains Mere Response Selfish Esteem One Love Assertion

Book:The Virtue of Selfishness

Source: The Virtue of Selfishness

“A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill.”

Ifs Men Life Existence Known Taste Skills Intellectual Gains Trade Esteem

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“You can be loved by your family, your mate, and your friends yet not love yourself. You can be admired by your associates yet regard yourself as worthless. You can project an image of assurance and poise that fools almost everyone yet secretly tremble with a sense of inadequacy. You can fulfill the expectations of others yet fail your own. You can win every honor yet feel that you have accomplished nothing. What shall it profit a person to gain the esteem of the whole world yet lose his or her own?”

Source: Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality