Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harvey Mackay

Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don't base your self-esteem on their opinions.

Dear Abbey

Cruel words erode the self-esteem like the ocean eats away the shore.

Samuel Johnson

He that undervalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

Robert Johnson

Measure yourself by your best moments, not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression.

Charles Caleb Colton

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.

Alanis Morissette

I didn't have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager, as I think most teen-agers don't.

Alan Watts

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

David Suchet

I love seeing my characters big up there and I would have liked to have reached a different public in movies from my television public. There's still a part of me that wishes that my character range could be seen on the big screen. Rather, as Rod Steiger was, because he was a big influence on me - about becoming other people and not worrying about your own glory or self esteem but sacrificing yourself to become somebody else.

Byron Katie

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

David Hanson

My goal is to create friend machines. Friendly genius machines. Machines with genius capabilities.

Nayvadius Cash

When you're riding with your mom, and you're a kid, you'd listen to 'Dear Mama' and the radio friendly records. I used to sneak and listen to Too $hort.

Jason Bateman

The comedy community is very friendly right now. I think that's why you see all the synergy and people doing each other's movies.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

We have always said we want friendly relations with other countries,

Ian Mckellen

What's nice for me, having identified myself for years as being rather shy, is now, wherever I am, in public, there tends to be a friendly face who's pleased to see me, and I like that.

Gary Chase

We have a great rivalry with Weston. It's a friendly rivalry, but a good one. It'll be exciting.

Stan Mikita

Usually when I wielded a hockey stick, it meant somebody was going to get hurt, ... This is just a friendly match.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.

Rick Burch

We had done three records with Mark, and we had gotten really comfortable with each other, so I think we lost that friendly push-pull relationship.

Tom Shrader

We're up 15 or 20 percent off our (July 24) lows. But September is a tricky month historically. We could retest recent lows by as much as 10 percent before we're able to really move higher.

Charles Dickens

Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low.

Cary Elwes

It's true in life, as in the movies, that the greatest highs are often followed by the lowest lows.

Ben Affleck

I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.

Bette Midler

I have my standards. They're low, but I have them.

Nicki Minaj

I've had my highs and had my lows but you can't tell me that I am not the baddest chick.

Hector Elizondo

You know, a low budget, you have to work harder. You have to plan well; you don't have much time to rehearse.

Mahatma Gandhi

The attack on untouchability is an attack on this high-and low-ness.

Maya Angelou

Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. You can be brought low, that's OK, but don't be reduced by them. Just say, 'That's life.'