"Needing approval is like saying 'your view..." - Quote by Wayne Dyer
Needing approval is like saying 'your view of me is more important than my own opinion of myself'.
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“Anything that has been accomplished by any other human being in the physical realm is within the field of possibility.”
“We can sit here and talk about all the negativity, which we've done a little bit, but for every act of evil in the world, there are a million acts of kindness. Basically, our nature is to love each other and care about each other, and most of us do that. Most of us have no quarrel with anybody who's living on another side of the planet and who might have a different religious persuasion. It's just these small minorities to the far right and the far left who get all of the news time and print space.”
“Our beliefs are the invisible ingredients in all our activities.”
More on Self Esteem
“Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we generate this imponderable quality most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.”
“High self-esteem comes from feeling like you have control over events not that events have control over you.”
“You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.”
More on Self Worth
“A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.”
“As for others whose lives are not so ordered, he reminds himself constantly of the characters they exhibit daily and nightly at home and abroad, and of the sort of society they frequent; and the approval of such men, who do not even stand well in their own eyes, has no value for him.”
“You alone are enough.”