49 Wise & Rational Quotes About Life to Help You Build Healthy Self-esteem

1. Sometimes it’s not ego, it’s self-respect.

2. Be someone that makes you happy.

3. Do not get addicted to escaping. Face your problems, handle your business, and triumph. No battle was ever won by people who ran.

4. If you knew how quickly people forget the dead, you would stop living to impress people.

5. If you have the power to eat alone at a restaurant, or sit alone in a cinema, then you have the power to do anything you want in life.

6. You didn’t become selfish, you became harder to manipulate. Just don’t confuse the two.

8. Never beg for friendship or a relationship with anyone. If you don’t receive the same efforts you give. Cut them off.

9. The best part of being authentic is that there is no image to maintain. You will delight some and disturb others, and none of it will concern the truth of your being.

10. Allow people to have their moods, and allow those moods to have nothing to do with you.

1. The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.

2. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

3. Ten thousand do not turn the scale against a single man of worth.

4. It is never too late to be what you might have been.

5. If you suffer pain because of some external cause, what troubles you is not the thing but your decision about it, and it is in your power to wipe it out at once.

6. Trust yourself. You know deep down what’s right for your journey.

7. Don’t betray your integrity just to fit in or avoid hardship. Stand firm in who you are.

8. We can choose to have no opinion about a thing, and not to be troubled by it; for things themselves have no power of their own to affect our judgments.

9. The path that is best for you may not be the popular one but it’s the one that leads to peace of mind and continued growth.

10. Let no one persuade you by words or deeds to do or say whatever is not best for you.

1. What others think of you is none of your business.

2. Everyone has a different clock, wait for your time.

3. No one is in charge of your happiness. Except you.

4. Never feel guilty for choosing yourself.

5. No one has ever won a game of chess by taking only forward moves. Sometimes you have to move backwards to take better steps forward. That’s life.

6. When someone tells you it can’t be done, it is a reflection of their limits, not yours.

7. Prove yourself to yourself, not others.

8. To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves–there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

9. Let people feel the weight of who you are and let them deal with it.

10. Smile, for you don’t own all the problems in the world.

1. If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.

2. You’ll never get the opportunity to do your best work if you’re not willing to first do your worst and then let yourself learn and grow.

3. Stop trying to fit in. You were born to stand out.

4. Be alone. Eat alone. Take yourself on dates. Sleep alone. Take the time to understand and love who you are.

5. Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.

6. Never hold yourself back from trying something new just because you’re afraid you won’t be good enough.

7. Always do what you are afraid to do.

8. You can develop the right mental attitude when you realize that nothing external can upset you or hurt you without your mental consent.

9. If you want to make the wrong decision, ask everyone.

10. No response is also a response, and it’s a powerful one.

1. Don’t chase love, money, or success. Become the best version of yourself and those things will chase you.

2. Learn to take nothing personally. Most of the time it has everything to do with them and nothing to do with you.

3. Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind.

4. Treat yourself well, while not harming others. Treat others well, while not harming yourself.

5. Fall in love with taking care of yourself. Fall in love with the path of deep healing. Fall in love with becoming the best version of yourself but with patience, compassion, and respect for your journey.

6. You never look good trying to make someone else look bad.

7. Never beg for a seat when you can build your own table.

8. Worry about your character, not your reputation. Your character is who you are. Your reputation is who people think you are.

9. Decide what kind of life you want and then say no to everything that isn’t that.

10. We’re on borrowed time. Choose people that choose you, & let everyone else be.