Brian Tracy Quotes

I think I've finally, after 72 years, gotten used to my voice, and it sounds like a friend now instead of an enemy.

When someone else accepts you, that's when you begin to see yourself - through THEIR eyes - and you begin to realize that there may actually be many qualities to like about yourself.

It is easier to overcome people's judgments than to overcome our own self-judgment.

I'm curious by individuals that embrace half a story so they can justify how incomplete they feel about their own self worth.

Low self-confidence is simply a problem of Awareness. Once you are aware of the Truth about yourself, you will be able to understand why you are the way you are and, most importantly, learn to love and accept yourself.

Maybe you just don't see your own beauty.

There's absolutely no way you can feel the freedom to embarrass and humiliate yourself unless you have finally recognized that your identity is in someone other than yourself.

The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.

Total self acceptance is empowering. It means allowing others to see you as they choose, without being offended.

Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.

Total, unconditional acceptance of yourself is the first step in building a positive self-image.

Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Once, in a dry season, I wrote in large letters across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. Although now, some years later, I marvel that a mind on the outs with itself should have nonetheless made painstaking record of its every tremor, I recall with embarrassing clarity the flavor of those particular ashes. It was a matter of misplaced self-respect.

Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self depreciation.

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.

I don't want women to hold themselves back. I think there are too many women who are self-conscious about the way they look - the way they see themselves in the mirror.

As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.

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

If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves.

Self-acceptance begets acceptance from others, which begets even deeper, more genuine self-acceptance. It can be done. But no one is going to bestow it on you. It is a gift only you can give yourself.

Where we see self esteem, we see self acceptance. High self esteem individual tend to avoid falling into an adversarial relationship with themselves.

Do I think well of myself, think myself a nice chap? WEll, I am afraid I sometimes do (and those are, no doubt, my worst moments).

Our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self acceptance.

One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.