It is true that people are sometimes hit by adversities beyond their control. But those so affected are better helped when they are awakened to the resources they do possess than when they are told they don't have any.

You can be loved by your family, your mate, and your friends yet not love yourself. You can be admired by your associates yet regard yourself as worthless. You can project an image of assurance and poise that fools almost everyone yet secretly tremble with a sense of inadequacy. You can fulfill the expectations of others yet fail your own. You can win every honor yet feel that you have accomplished nothing. What shall it profit a person to gain the esteem of the whole world yet lose his or her own?

One of the hardest expressions of self-assertiveness is challenging your limiting beliefs.

For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.

Self-esteem is not a luxury; it is a profound spiritual need.

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn

The lies most devastating to our self-esteem are not so much the lies we tell as the lies we live.