If we can’t be honest with our self who can we be honest with? The mind can be good at justifying our wrong actions and behavior. But, clever self-justification is of no benefit in the long run. If we can be aware of our own pride, jealousy, insecurities then we have a chance to let go of them. But, if we always justify our wrong attitudes to our self then we are lost.

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

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

If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you’ll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren’t even giving to yourself.
Barbara De Angelis

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.
Baltasar Gracian

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

A person’s worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves.
Jean De La Bruyere

Of all the judgments you make in life, none is as important as the one you make about yourself. The difference between low self-esteem and high self-esteem is the difference between passivity and action, between failure and success.
Nathaniel Branden

Having a low opinion of yourself is not “modesty”. It’s self-destruction. Holding your uniqueness in high regard is not “egotism”. It’s a necessary precondition to happiness and success.
Bobbe Sommer

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.
Stephen Covey

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