Laura Schlessinger Quotes

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

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

Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we generate this imponderable quality most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.

Do I really need to prove anything to anybody? I don't feel that I have to prove anything. The only thing that I have to prove is to myself, that I have value.

I remember promising myself that should I live I would prove myself deserving of life.

When you have more respect for yourself and put yourself in a position where you feel your sense of value or worth, that's how you know you're on the right path.

Every day you must try to make your own self-image grow; this you can do.

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.

Every achiever that I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me'.

You have to accept the fact that some people are never going to be for you. Treat them with respect, but you don’t need their approval to fulfill your destiny.

I feel like our future is our confidence and self-esteem.

Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.

Learn to live in this world with self-respect.

I give myself permission to be all that I can be, and I deserve the very best in life.

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

You're worth the investment in yourself and what you feel, you can and want to be

I don't have a lot of self-confidence. I'm getting there. Before I had zero confidence, but it's one of those things you learn and accept.

Every time we choose action over ease or labor over rest, we develop an increasing level of self-worth, self-respect and self-confidence. In the final analysis, it is how we feel about ourselves that provides the greatest reward from any activity. It is not what we get that makes us valuable, it is what we become in the process of doing that brings value into our lives. It is activity that converts human dreams into human reality, and that conversion from idea into actuality gives us a personal value that can come from no other source.

You can be excellent in every way. You can be first class. There is no need for you to be a scrub. Respect yourself. Do not feel sorry for yourself. Do not dwell on unkind things others may say about you. Polish and refine whatever talents the Lord has given you. Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, but with great and strong purpose in your heart. Love life and look for its opportunities.

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

People, in whatever walk of life, would be surprised if they just gave themselves a chance by believing in what they are.

A man is always better than he thinks.

I have nothing to prove to anyone but myself.

Live your life to its fullest potential and don't really care too much about what other people think of you.