Self-Esteem

"Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears.  It seems to absolve us." - Van Wyck Brooks ...

"Why are we trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out" - Oliver James ...

"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." - William Faulkner ...

"If you feel like others are not treating you with love and respect, check your price tag. Perhaps you subconsciously marked yourself down. Because it's YOU who tells others what you're worth by showing them what you are willing to ...

"If a man is called a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause ...

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” - Frederick Douglass ...

“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, ...

"Weakness in attitude becomes weakness in character" - Albert Einstein ...

“One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.” - Henry Ford ...

"You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be." - Lou Holtz ...