Nathaniel Branden Quotes

Our sense of self-worth is the single most important determinant of the health, abundance, and joy we allow into our lives.

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

No one is happy unless he respects himself.

Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem, and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in love, in sex, in parenting, in every important aspect of existence - and how high he or she is likely to rise. The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.

I feel like I have a healthy self-esteem.

Self-esteem should not be confused with self-confidence. Self-confidence is believing in your competence and your ability to do something, whereas self-esteem is believing in your goodness.

I think I've been able to find happiness, and I've learned to love myself. That's a huge accomplishment for anyone, learning to love yourself.

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.

You have to feel good about yourself.

To me the thought of oneself as low and humble is a sin and ignorance.

self-esteem, n. An erroneous appraisal.

You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at.

Self-esteem is not based on itself.

In order to be somebody you have to hold even your shadow in high regard.

If you're ever if you're ever thinking, “Oh, but I'm a waste of space and I'm a burden,” remember: that also describes the Grand Canyon. Why don't you have friends and family take pictures of you from a safe distance? Revel in your majestic profile?

No matter what anybody says, what matters most is what you think of yourself.

The picture you have of yourself, your self-esteem, will have a profound effect on the way you see the world and the way your world sees you.

You would love the way he sees you. He uses you as a weapon against himself and not merely because you did

To really 'live,' that is to find life reasonably satisfying, you must have an adequate and realistic self-image that you can life with. You must find yourself acceptable to 'you.'

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

We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice.

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

I am not someone who throws around the word 'self-esteem.' It is a fictional description.

I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was okay.

Why can't I be the adorable one?