Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous. Chris Evert
Confidence and empowerment are cousins in my opinion. Empowerment comes from within and typically it's stemmed and fostered by self-assurance. To feel empowered is to feel free and that's when people do their best work. You can't fake confidence or empowerment. Amy Jo Martin
Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.Barry Bonds
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service. John Burroughs
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion. Mahatma Gandhi
God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained. Mahatma Gandhi
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.Lord Chesterfield
Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up. Jack Canfield
Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for. Bryant H.McGill
I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted. Harlan Coben
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. Aristotle
I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical. Peter Ackroyd
I don't believe in that kind of American John Wayne individualism where people pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Someone changed your diapers. And if that's the case, you ain't self-made. Michael Eric Dyson
I don't find myself interesting as a person and the details I find boring, quite frankly. You could sum it up in a few words or sentences really: came from nothing. Self-educated. Luck. Energy. Curiosity. Ambition. That's it. Nothing at all can illuminate the work as far as I can tell. Peter Ackroyd
I don't have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies themselves the pleasure of a bloody hunk of steak or a pungent French cheese because of some outdated nonsense about what's appropriate or attractive. Anthony Bourdain
I don't judge my self-worth as a football player. Football is something I love. It's a fun career deal, but it's not what I want to do with my life, because I see football as a game. Tim Tebow