Bette Midler Quotes

If you care about yourself, you should care about learning - even learning simple things. You come to have pride in yourself only by accomplishing things, even from fixing some old stairs...Others can't grant you self-respect, even others who care about you. You have to earn self-respect yourself.

originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

Give your best effort, because you are worth your best effort.

I think confidence comes from doing something well, working at it hard, and you build it up. It's not something you're born with. You have to build the confidence as you go along.

Self-esteem must be earned! When you dare to dream, dare to follow that dream, dare to suffer through the pain, sacrifice, self-doubts, and friction from the world, you will genuinely impress yourself.

If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride

The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.

At the end of the day, nobody has higher expectations for me than myself. I don't really try to prove anyone wrong anymore as much as I try to prove myself right.

I feel like if I show people how good I'm doing with myself, then it'll bring people to want me to manage them as well.

Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.

People with high self esteem are risk takers, but more importantly, they are achievers.

Had I not worked on myself, put value in myself, I would not have the loving and supportive people that I have right now in my life, including my husband and children.

We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem.

If God simply handed us everything we want, He'd be taking from us our greatest prize - the job of accomplishment

The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Very few people get anything like their potential horsepower translated into the actual horsepower of their output in life. Potential exceeds realization for many people...The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be.

It is easier to grow in dignity than to make a start.

We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

I don't want to be overly philosophical, but I think there are things you earn for yourself as you go.

I'd just like to prove to myself that I'm all here and all together and can get the best out of myself. I'd also like to prove that to a couple of other people.

I'm not motivated by money or power or fame. In the end, it doesn't bring much happiness. The only thing that is driving me is self-satisfaction, self-validation.

I have nothing to prove to anyone but myself.

I've always felt a strong urge to prove myself.

...true self-esteem comes from competence, not the other way around.