Ralph Waldo Emerson Self Esteem Quotations

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.

People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

Self Esteem::"It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. I knew a man of simple habits and earnest character who never put out his hands nor opened his lips to court the public, and having survived several rotten reputations of younger men, honor came at last and sat down with him upon his private bench from which he had never stirred."

The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow in a herd, or when they cater for their establishment.

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.