Albert Ellis Quotes

Your value should not be determined by how somebody else has treated you.

If you don't like yourself, you're going to have a really hard time getting along with anyone else.

It is very important that, no matter what happens, you keep your feeling of self worth and value.

There is nothing I need so much as nourishment for my Self Esteem

Loving and accepting ourselves are the ultimate acts of courage.

Self-esteem is the goddamn root of all evil.

Love yourself before any other person. That's when you can really survive on your own.

Self-rejection is the biggest sin that you can commit.

The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem.

Self worth sets the standard that life meets.

The most important opinion you'll ever have is the one you hold of yourself.

Self-esteem is not a luxury; it is a profound spiritual need.

You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

It is a given that we will all make some mistakes in life. It is a given that you will make inappropriate choices for inappropriate reasons. They will in no way affect your worth. No matter what you say or what you do, nothing can minimize the worth of your being. Your worth is a gift from God.

That's the biggest thing to separate - your body from your self worth.

Self worth cannot be verfied by others

No one can give you anything-love, shame, self-esteem- until you give it to yourself. Today, give yourself good things.

You are enough, which I believe is critical for any human being to get in their bones.

I can live with myself.

When I was around 18, I looked in the mirror and said, 'You're either going to love yourself or hate yourself.' And I decided to love myself. That changed a lot of things.

I don't have the best self esteem; mine wavers month to month, but I know how to pick myself up.

You can't become what you aren't, or you will start feeling awful about yourself.

Forgiving yourself will help with giving yourself strength.

I just constantly tell myself that I should be the only one to define my worth and what I'm capable of and how I perceive myself. And that I should never source that worth from other people, especially strangers on social media. They don't know who I am, the length of my journey, who I am as a person.

It was my father who taught me to value myself.