Self-esteem: A standing farmer is much taller than a kneeling gentleman

Self-esteem is an inflated balloon. If you poke a needle, it will send out a big storm. ——(French Enlightenment thinker) Voltaire

A self-respecting person is like wearing armor, and nothing can pierce it. ——(American poet) Longfellow

My shackles, you compose music in my heart; I fiddle with you all day long, making you an ornament that increases my brilliance. ——(Indian writer) Rabindranath Tagore

Whether a person can achieve success depends on whether he has self-esteem and self-confidence. ——(Ancient Greek philosopher) Socrates

Self-esteem is not contempt, self-confidence is not complacency, and independence is not isolation. ——(Chinese educator) Xu Teli

Self-esteem, self-knowledge, and self-control, only these three can lead life to the most noble kingdom.

——(British poet) Tennyson