Best lows & self Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school.”

I Can Self School Self Esteem Lows Esteem Charm Low Self Esteem Narrators

Self Self Esteem Lows Esteem Low Self Esteem

“The thing that drives me crazy is when comics say 'I have low self-esteem.' No you don't. You're standing on stage asking people to pay. You don't play an instrument. You want people to pay to hear what's in your mind. You don't have low self-esteem. You might have other problems.”

People Want Mind Self Play Problem Might Pay Crazy Stage Self Esteem Lows Standing Asking Instruments Esteem Low Self Esteem Drive Me Crazy

Author:Colin Quinn

“Grosvenor and Burke suggest that continually, though silently, a school building tells students who they are and how they should think about the world. It can help to manufacture rote obedience or independent activity; it can create high self-confidence or low self-esteem.”

Thinking World Should Self Helping School Self Esteem Students Building Activity Lows Independent Self Confidence Esteem Obedience Low Self Esteem School Buildings

Author:Alison Lurie

“I didn't do very well at school, and I suppose I've always had this sense, you know that, of being average, so I've been a bit low on self-confidence in my ability.”

Knows Wells Self School Bits Ability Lows Average Self Confidence

Author:Peter Hollingworth

“At the root of fear is low self-esteem. This explains why angry people have low self-esteem, are argumentative, stubborn, and quick to flare up yet slow to forgive. Those behaviors are defenses against the underlying fear.”

People Self Self Esteem Behavior Lows Roots Angry Forgiving Defense Esteem Stubborn Low Self Esteem Flare Flare Up

Book:Find Out Who's Normal and Who's Not: The Proven System to Quickly Assess Anyone's Emotional Stability

Source: Find Out Who's Normal and Who's Not: The Proven System to Quickly Assess Anyone's Emotional Stability

“The evils of mankind are caused, not by the primary aggressiveness of individuals, but by their self-transcending identification with groups whose common denominator is low intelligence and high emotionality.”

Self Evil Individual Common Groups Mankind Lows Primaries Identification Common Denominator Transcending Aggressiveness

Author:Arthur Koestler

“Positive self-esteem operates as, in effect, the immune system of the consciousness, providing resistance, strength, and a capacity for regeneration. When self-esteem is low, our resilience in the face of life's adversities is diminished. We crumble before vicissitudes that a healthier sense of self could vanquish. We tend to be more influenced by the desire to avoid pain than to experience joy. Negatives have more power over us than positives.”

Source: Power of Self Esteem

“If only corporal punishment cured low self-esteem.”

Ifs Self Self Esteem Lows Punishment Esteem Low Self Esteem Corporal Punishment

Author:Jeph Jacques

“Businessmen should not put their finger in politics, because they tend to think only of their own self-interest. But I worry about the low morale in Italian industry and the lack of government initiatives to help the poor.”

Thinking Should Self Helping Government Interest Poor Worry Industry Lows Fingers Italian Initiative Businessman Self Interest Morale Help The Poor

Author:Diego Della Valle

“So, let us, you and I, for the sake of our brother man, individually strive by example and influence to lift the standard of thought and conduct from the low level of selfishness and self-indulgence up to the lofty realms of aspirational thought and self-denial.”

“The first discipline modernity's originators imposed upon themselves was that of self-restraint, learning to live with vulgarity. Their high expectations for effectiveness were made possible by low expectations of what was to be.”

Firsts Made Self Discipline Lows Expectations Restraint Effectiveness Modernity Vulgarity Self Restraint High Expectations Low Expectations

Author:Allan Bloom

“I do not see them here; but after death God knows I know the faces I shall see, Each one a murdered self, with low last breath. 'I am thyself,what hast thou done to me?' 'And Iand Ithyself,' (lo! each one saith,) 'And thou thyself to all eternity!”

Knows Self Done Lasts Faces Lows Eternity Breaths God Knows Thyself After Death

Author:Dante Gabriel Rossetti

“Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.”

Self Goal Results Self Esteem Lows Esteem Consistent Low Self Esteem

Book:The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future

Source: The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future

“Socialism is, among other things, the political habitat of low self-esteem, incompetence, self-loathing, and a willingness to steal - or have stolen for you what you are unable or unwilling to work for. Socialism is a philosophy fit only for slugs, leaches, and mosquitoes.”

Self Philosophy Political Self Esteem Fit Lows Stealing Socialism Esteem Willingness Stolen Unwilling Low Self Esteem Incompetence Loathing Self Loathing Habitat Mosquitoes Slugs

Author:L. Neil Smith

“Bragging is often merely a ladder we build for ourselves out of words when we are afraid we are not tall enough in the eyes of the world. It is an unwitting confession to low self-esteem.”

World Self Enough Eye Self Esteem Lows Esteem Tall Confession Ladders Low Self Esteem Bragging

Book:Choosing Civility: The Twenty-five Rules of Considerate Conduct

Source: Choosing Civility: The Twenty-five Rules of Considerate Conduct

“It is the profoundest of cosmic ironies. The divine power, our true spiritual essence, does not achieve perfection until it hits the 'rock' bottom of the cosmos - the dense and crude earth. It remains imperfect until the moment of entombment for the simple reason that until that dark nadir is reached the experiential adventure of existence remains incomplete, and Self is not yet endowed with the entire spectrum of the light of consciousness - from spirit to matter - from the highest high to the lowest low.”

Source: The New Hermetics: 21st Century Magick for Illumination and Power

“Lord Beaverbrook was fundamentally a lonely man, with a low sense of his own self-worth, who was incapable of forming a stable, loving relationship with anyone. He could charm or he could bully; he could give or he could take; he was glad to see his guests arrive and pleased to see them go. Although many people genuinely loved him, he was incapable of believing that this was either possible or true. No wonder he was so restless, so impatient, so vindictive, so quick to lose his temper, so eager to stir things up.”

“I've suffered from low self-esteem.”

Self Self Esteem Lows Esteem Low Self Esteem

Author:Ken Kercheval

“People residing within the cult of average don’t like to see others rise. It threatens their security, and spotlights their low self-worth. Go for great, no matter what they say.”

People Self Matter Security Lows No Matter What Average Self Worth Cult Spotlight

Author:Robin Sharma

“That which especially distinguishes a high order of man from a low order of man, that which constitutes human goodness, human nobleness, is surely not the degree of enlightenment with which men pursue their own advantage; but it is self-forgetfulness; it is self-sacrifice; it is the disregard of personal pleasure, personal indulgence, personal advantage, remote or present, because some other line of conduct is more right.”

Men Humans Self Order Lines Pleasure Sacrifice Goodness Degrees Lows Enlightenment Advantage Pursue Indulgence Disregard Forgetfulness Self Sacrifice Self Forgetfulness

Author:James Anthony Froude

“Throughout their lives, women try to pummel their bodies into some phantom ideal shape that exists only with a lot of airbrushing. ... I don't blame men for this. Men seem to go for us no matter what size and shape we are. I blame capitalism. No, really. The consumer must constantly be in a state of anxious low self-esteem so that she will constantly buy lipsticks and girdles to make her feel cuter.”

“I feel inauthentic at a party. ... Going to a party is a 'low' activity - the authentic self is compromised, fragmented - one plays 'roles.' One isn't fully present, beyond role-playing. One doesn't (can't) tell the full truth, which means one is lying, even if one doesn't literally tell lies.”

Ifs Feels Mean Self Play Truth Lying Party Roles Activity Lows Authentic Self Fragmented Role Playing

Book:As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

Source: As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

“Low self-esteem is not possible when you understand the nature of everything. Depression is not possible. The universe is absolutely friendly.”

Self Universe Self Esteem Lows Esteem Friendly Low Self Esteem

Author:Byron Katie

“Brazilians need to work on their own national pride. I always think that they suffer from national low-self esteem. It's a lesser-developed country, and they have struggled so much. Sometimes they have an attitude that, if it's Brazilian, it can't be good.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Self Country Sometimes Suffering Attitude Self Esteem Pride Lows Be Good Esteem Low Self Esteem Developed Country National Pride

Author:Amy Irving

“Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually building up a different source of self-worth.”

Different Self Self Esteem Building Source Skills Lows Weight Self Worth Esteem Diets Low Self Esteem Building Up

Author:Arabella Weir

“I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbelievable, and those feelings of low self-esteem - the way that all comes together on the screen? Delicious.”

Men Way Self Feelings Together Humanity Self Esteem Walking Lows Connections Screens Esteem Delicious Unbelievable Low Self Esteem Chekhov

Author:Gary Shteyngart

“To be an actor, a lot of times it's a strange combination of high confidence and low self-esteem. Which is a weird combination to have, but I think it's sort of very common among actors.”

Thinking Self Actors Common Self Esteem Strange Lows Esteem Combination Low Self Esteem

Author:Kurt Fuller

“There are, however, exceptions to this reliance on feelings as evidence of truth: if, for instance, your feelings lead to disbelief instead of belief, they're apt to be dismissed as some form of denial. This is not a common problem. Usually intellectualism, not feeling reality, is blamed for disbelief. But, some angel experts suggest, there may be emotional as well as intellectual barriers to belief: unwillingness to believe in angels can reflect low self-esteem.”

“I've always at least tried to be self-deprecating when I say anything about myself. As long as you set the bar low, it will keep people from putting you on a pedestal, so they can't knock you off.”

People Long Self Lows Bars Say Anything Pedestal Self Deprecating

Author:Megan Fox

“All the successful people I knew in life had high self-esteem and all the losers had low self-esteem.”

People Self Successful Self Esteem Lows Esteem Loser Successful People Low Self Esteem High Self Esteem

Author:Bill Bartmann

“I can never suppose this country so far lost to all ideas of self-importance as to be willing to grant America independence; if that could ever be adopted I shall despair of this country being ever preserved from a state of inferiority and consequently falling into a very low class among the European States.”

Ifs I Can Ideas Self Country States America Fall Lost Class Willing Despair Lows Importance Independence Grants Adopted Inferiority Self-importance

Author:George III

“In the light of consciousness all sorts of things happen and one need not give special importance to any. The sight of a flower is as marvelous as the vision of God. Let them be. Why remember them and then make memory into a problem? Be bland about them; do not divide them into high and low, inner and outer, lasting and transient. Go beyond, go back to the source, go to the self that is the same whatever happens.”

“It is the Lord's kindness that he will take the scum off us in the fire. Who know how needful winnowing is to us and what dross we have before we enter the kingdom of God? So narrow is the entry to heaven that our knots, lumps of pride, self-love, idol-love, and world-love must be hammered off us, that we may stoop low and creep through into that narrow entry.”

“"You are pure and perfect, and what you call sin does not belong to you". Sins are low degrees of Self-manifestation; manifest your Self in a high degree.”

Doe Self Sin Perfect Strength Pure Degrees Lows Manifestation Manifest

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“People infer high self-efficacy from successes achieved through minimal effort on difficult tasks, but they infer low self-efficacy if they had to work hard under favorable conditions to master relatively easy tasks”

People Ifs Self Hard Easy Difficult Effort Conditions Masters Hard Work Lows Tasks Efficacy Self Efficacy Difficult Tasks Easy Tasks Minimal Effort

Author:Albert Bandura

“Convictions that outcomes are determined by one's own actions can be either demoralizing or heartening, depending on the level of self-judged efficacy. People who regard outcomes as personally determined, but who lack the requisite skills, would experience low self-efficacy and view the activities with a sense of futility”

People Self Action Levels Views Activity Skills Lows Regard Conviction Determined Outcomes Judged Futility Efficacy Self Efficacy Demoralizing

Author:Albert Bandura

“Low self-confidence is simply a problem of Awareness. Once you are aware of the Truth about yourself, you will be able to understand why you are the way you are and, most importantly, learn to love and accept yourself.”

Way Self Problem Able Accepting Awareness Confidence Lows Self Confidence About Yourself Accepting Yourself

Book:The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence

Source: The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence

“Lack of Confidence, low Self-Esteem, and depleted Mojo are symptoms of inadequate Strength Training.”

Self Self Esteem Lows Training Esteem Symptoms Inadequate Low Self Esteem Lack Of Confidence Strength Training Mojo

Author:Steve Ilg

“Many leadership problems are driven by low self-awareness.”

Self Problem Awareness Lows Self Awareness Driven

Author:Bill Hybels

“Fear of success is far more dangerous than fear of failure, because the subconscious mind works to prevent that which it fears. People may fear success because of low self-esteem and feeling of not deserving it; because it will increase what others expect of them. Fear of success shows up as anxiety, indecision, avoidance, procrastination or acceptance of mediocrity.”

Source: Personal Best: 1001 Great Ideas for Achieving Success in Your Career

“Self-righteousness is the fruit of a low view of God's law and a lite view of your own sin.”

Self Law Sin Views Lows Fruit Righteousness Self Righteousness

Author:Tullian Tchividjian

“If you put fleas in a shallow container they jump out. But if you put a lid on the container for just a short time, they hit the lid trying to escape and learn quickly not to jump so high. They give up their quest for freedom. After the lid is removed, the fleas remain imprisond by their own self policing. So it is with life. Most of us let our own fears or the impositions of others imprison us in a world of low expectations.”

Ifs World Giving Trying Self Giving Up Lows Expectations Quests Shallow Short Time Fleas Containers Imposition Low Expectations

Author:John Taylor Gatto

“It seems to be a common denominator with a lot of comics, this low self-esteem thing.”

Self Seems Common Self Esteem Lows Esteem Low Self Esteem Common Denominator

Author:Ray Romano

“People say to me, Hey, Bill, the war made us feel better about ourselves. Really? What kind of people are these with such low self-esteem that they need a war to feel better about themselves? May I suggest, instead of a war to feel better about yourself, perhaps... sit-ups? Maybe a fruit cup? Eight glasses of water a day?”

People Needs Feels Kind May Made War Self Water Self Esteem Lows Bills Fruit Glasses Eight Esteem Hey Cups About Yourself Feel Better Low Self Esteem

Author:Bill Hicks

“People nowadays interchange gifts and favors out of friendship, but buying and selling is considered absolutely inconsistent with the mutual benevolence which should prevail between citizens and the sense of community of interest which supports our social system. According to our ideas, buying and selling is essentially anti-social in all its tendencies. It is an education in self-seeking at the expense of others, and no society whose citizens are trained in such a school can possibly rise above a very low grade of civilization”

Source: Looking Backward: From 2000 to 1887

“What kind of people are these with such low self-esteem that they need a war to feel better about themselves?”

People Needs Feels Kind War Self Self Esteem Lows Esteem Feel Better Low Self Esteem

Author:Bill Hicks

“Low self-esteem comes from who you assess yourself to be. It's about who you are, and I didn't think I was anything or anybody.”

Thinking Self Self Esteem Lows Who You Are Esteem Low Self Esteem

Author:Gloria Gaynor

“Everyone is walking around with these self doubts, so there's something reassuring about that. And self-doubt in one or a few areas doesn't mean that you have generally low self-esteem. And you have the power to get yourself out of feeling that way.”

Way Mean Self Feelings Doubt Self Esteem Walking Lows Areas Esteem Low Self Esteem Self-doubt Reassuring

Author:Amy Cuddy

“I refuse to follow the rules where society tries to control people with low self esteem.”

People Trying Self Self Esteem Lows Refuse Esteem Low Self Esteem

Author:Kanye West

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