We all have times when we feel low for different reasons, it could be due to relationship problems or career challenges or for no visible reason. During times like that, words can go a long way in uplifting our spirits. Here are 25 quotes for those times you need a pickup:
“To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don’t wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.” – Alan Cohen
“You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.” ~ Lou Holtz
“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
“To have an incredible increase in self esteem, all you have to do is start doing some little something. You don’t have to do spectacularly dramatic things for self esteem to start going off the scale. Just make a commitment to any easy discipline. Then another one and another one.” ~ Jim Rohn
“Self worth cannot be verified by others. You are worthy because you say it is so. If you depend on others for your value it is other-worth.” ~ Wayne Dyer
“Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.” ~ Louise L. Hay.
“The greatest success is successful self-acceptance.” ~ Ben Sweet
“The most important key to the permanent enhancement of esteem is the practice of positive inner-talk”. ~ Dennis Waitley.
“One of the most significant characteristics of healthy esteem is that it is the state of one who is not at war either with himself or with others”. ~ Nathaniel Branden.
“Always act like you’re wearing an invisible crown.” ~ Author Unknown
“Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.” ~ Bruce Barton
“If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.” ~Author Unknown
“I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.” ~ Buckminster Fuller
“Whether you think you can or think you can’t – you are right.” ~ Henry Ford
“It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.” ~ W.C. Fields
“We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.” ~ Roderick Thorp
“If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can’t accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.” ~ Rosalyn Smith Carter
“Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn’t know that so it goes on flying anyway.” ~ Mary Kay Ash
“You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.” ~ Brian Tracy
“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.” ~ Aldous Leonard Huxley
“It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.” ~ Sally Field
“If I am not for myself, who will be?” ~ Pirke Avoth
“I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.” ~ Anna Freud
“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.” ~ Golda Meir
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt