- Alma 8: 15…Self Esteem – blessed if keep commandments (Alma on himself)
- “Take responsibility for your own physical well-being. Your soul consists of your body and spirit (see D&C 88:15 ). Feeding the spirit while neglecting the body, which is a temple, usually leads to spiritual dissonance and lowered self-esteem. If you are out of shape, if you are uncomfortable in your own body and can do something about it, then do it! Elder Russell M. Nelson has taught that we should “regard our body as a temple of our very own” and that we should “control our diet and exercise for physical fitness” (“We Are Children of God,” Ensign, Nov. 1998, 87; Liahona, Jan. 1999, 103).” Jörg Klebingat, October 2014 General Conference
- “Your self-esteem, the core of your personality, has been defined by psychologist Nathaniel Branden as “the reputation you have with yourself.” You build up or pull down your reputation with yourself with everything you do or fail to do. The good news is that you feel better about yourself whenever you push yourself to do your best. You increase your self-esteem whenever you go beyond the point where the average person would normally quit.” Eat That Frog, Brian Tracy, Page 77
- “The more self-hatred and guilt we have, the less our lives work. The less self-hatred and guilt we have, the better our lives work, on all levels.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay)- Page 5
- “I forgive you for not being the way I wanted you to be. I forgive you and I set you free.” This affirmation sets us free.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 8
- “People who love themselves and their bodies neither abuse themselves nor others.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 9
- “Loving the self, to me, begins with never ever criticizing ourselves for anything. Criticism locks us into the very pattern we are trying to change. Understanding and being gentle with ourselves helps us to move out of it. Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 9
- “Let’s look at some of the ways we don’t love ourselves: We scold and criticize ourselves endlessly. We mistreat our bodies with food, alcohol, and drugs. We choose to believe we are unlovable. We are afraid to charge a decent price for our services. We create illnesses and pain in our bodies. We procrastinate on things that would benefit us. We live in chaos and disorder. We create debt and burdens. We attract lovers and mates who belittle us.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 17
- “Loving the self begins with never, ever criticizing ourselves for anything.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 22
- “Would you really dig into yesterday’s garbage to make tonight’s meal? Do you dig into old mental garbage to create tomorrow’s experiences?”
- “Each one of us has a three-year-old child within us, and we often spend most of our time yelling at that kid in ourselves. Then we wonder why our lives don’t work.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay) Page 28
- “The real issue is not how others define us but how Christ defines us.” (Richard C. Edgley, Ensign, May 1998, 12)
- “Self-pity will vanish as our blessings are counted.” (James E. Faust, Ensign, Feb. 2006, 7)
- “…We who feel ourselves sometimes so worthless, so good-for-nothing, we are not so worthless as we think. There is not one of us but what God’s love has been expended upon. There is not one of us that He has not cared for and caressed. There is not one of us that He has not desired to save and that He has not devised means to save. There is not one of us that He has not given His angels charge concerning. We may be insignificant and contemptible in our own eyes and in the eyes of others, but the truth remains that we are children of God and that He has actually given His angels…charge concerning us, and they watch over us and have us in their keeping.” (George Q. Cannon, Gospel Truths [1974], 1:2; Ensign, May 1989, 21)
- “Daily we meet moments that steal our self-esteem. They are inevitable. Each day we are reminded that we don’t have certain talents, that we make mistakes. That we don’t excel in all things. And amidst all this, it is easy to believe that we don’t quite measure up in the great scheme of things, but are inferior in some secret way. Underrating ourselves is not only painful, but is downright dangerous. For we limit the range of all possibility. We are the offspring of Heavenly Parents. Created with great personal care. Our hearts, our souls & minds have potential beyond our greatest imagination. We can become anything we want if we just remember who we are & if we do not choke off our power by brooding over some small fault, or by feeling inferior.” – Paul H. Dunn
- “Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.” Jim Carrey