“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”
– Mark Twain

“Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.”
– Maxwell Maltz

“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”
– William James

“To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.”
– Robert Morley

“Don’t waste your energy trying to change opinions … Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.”
– Tina Fey

“To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections.”
– Sandra Bierig

“I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.”
– Henry James

“The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”
– Mark Twain

“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.”
– Sir Edmund Hillary

“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.”
– Henry Ford

“No other love no matter how genuine it is, can fulfill one’s heart better than unconditional self-love.”
– Edmond Mbiaka

“Loving yourself isn’t vanity. It’s sanity.”
– Katrina Mayer

“Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.”
– Deborah Day

“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.”
– Malcolm S. Forbes

“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.”
– Helen Keller

“To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance”
– Oscar Wilde

“Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.”
– André Gide

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
– William James

“If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.”
– Charles Bukowski

“Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.”
– Louise Hay

“The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.”
– Maya Angelou

“My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.”
– Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.”
– Carl Gustav Jung

“The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.”
– Melanie Koulouris

“You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.”
– Diane Von Furstenberg

“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
– Carl Gustav Jung

“The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.”
– Robert Hand

“You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are.”
– Yogi Bhajan

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.”
– W.C. Fields

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
– Benjamin Spock

“Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.”
– Jean Vanier

“Beauty begins the moment you decided to be yourself.”
– Coco Chanel

“Your problem is you’re… too busy holding onto your unworthiness.”
– Ram Dass

“The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.”
– Rita Mae Brown