15 Self-Esteem Quotes to Boost Your Confidence

I love myself

1. Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.-Louise Hart 

2. Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment. -Thomas Carlyle 

3. There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity. -Nathaniel Branden 

4. Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable. -Jack Canfield 

5. If we get our self-esteem from superficial places, from our popularity, appearance, business success, financial situation, health, any of these, we will be disappointed, because no one can guarantee that we'll have them tomorrow. -Kathy Ireland 

6. 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. -Nathaniel Branden 

7. To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives. -Denis Waitley 

8. Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on. -Maxwell Maltz 

9. Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up. -Jack Canfield 

10. Well, we all know that self-esteem comes from what you think of you, not what other people think of you. -Gloria Gaynor 

11. Like it or not, life is a series of competitions. You may be competing for a grade, a spot on a team, a job, or the largest account in town. The higher your self-esteem is, the better you get along with yourself, with others, and the more you'll accomplish. -Harvey Mackay 

12. The strongest single factor in prosperity consciousness is self-esteem: believing you can do it, believing you deserve it, believing you will get it. -Jerry Gillies 

13. To trust one’s mind and to know that one is worthy of happiness is the essence of self-esteem. - Nathaniel Branden 

14. Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else. - Nathaniel Branden 

15. Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem. We cannot draw to ourselves more than we think we are worth. -Iyanla Vanzant