Og Mandino Quotes

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

The power to distinguish between person and performance and to communicate intrinsic worth flows naturally out of our own sense of intrinsic worth.

The only thing that matters in life is your own opinion about yourself, nobody can destroy your dignity then, because it is not dependent on anybody's opinion.

As if they were our own handiwork we place a high value on our characters.

There was only one variable that separated the people who have a strong sense of love and belonging and the people who really struggle for it. And that was, the people who have a strong sense of love and belonging believe they're worthy of love and belonging. That's it. They believe they're worthy.

Others may question your credentials, your papers, your degrees. Others may look for all kinds of ways to diminish your worth. But what is inside you no one can take from you or tarnish. This is your worth, who you really are, your degree that can go with you wherever you go, that you bring with you the moment you come into a room, that can't be manipulated or shaken. Without that sense of self, no amount of paper, no pedigree, and no credentials can make you legit. No matter what, you have to feel legit inside first.

Self-esteem does not come from surrounding yourself with people and things that seem to increase your value. Real self-esteem is an integration of an inner-value with things in the world around you.

I'm still the same person who grew up mostly in a Midwestern, factory-working neighborhood where talk about "self-esteem" would have seemed like a luxury.

Self-worth is an understanding on the intellectual level, trusting at the heart level, and accepting at the soul level that you are worthy just because you believe that you are. Your worthiness is proven by your existence. Your breathing. The beating of your heart. Your mere presence is all that is needed to establish your worth.

Your attitude is more important than stylish clothes. This comes from believing in yourself. This attitude can define your life.

Self-esteem is that deep-down inside the skin feeling you have of your own self-worth.

You can never make yourself believe that you're loveable, however hard you try, because when the chips are down what you really believe rises to the surface of the mind to replace what you want to believe.

Your value is in yourself; the other stuff will come and go.

A self-esteem issue doesn't change whether you're considered beautiful or not because it's about what's inside you.

What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.

I've learnt that you are who you are, and in the end, if you don't believe it, then no one will.

Just because I believed in what I was doing on the field and dedicated myself to playing the game, does that mean I'm cocky? Does that mean I'm arrogant?

The clothes are not making me... If I like it, that's all that matters...It's not about the clothes. It's about how I am as a person and how confident I am.

He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.

Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

How do you measure your value?

Scarcely anyone ever wants to be anybody else. However handicapped or unhappy he feels himself, he would not change places with other more fortunate mortals.

Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

You don't have to look like George Clooney. You just have to know yourself.

No one can figure out your worth but you.