Edwin A. Locke Quotes
Self-esteem is an essential psychological need—no one can live with the conviction that they are fundamentally no good, so people who lack the real thing attempt to fake it.
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Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up.
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Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance.
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Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.
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A person's self-esteem has nothing to do with how she looks.
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Watching TV produces low levels of satisfaction because it doesn't challenge you. Instead, do something that raises your self-esteem. Tap into your 'signature strengths' - things you're good at or passionate about.
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The conviction: I will not tolerate this age. The freedom: the freedom to act on my conviction. And I will act. No one else has both the conviction and the freedom. Many agree with me, have the conviction, but will not act. Some act, assassinate, bomb, burn, etc., but they are the crazies. Crazy acts by crazy people. But what if one, sober, reasonable, and honorable man should act, and act with perfect sobriety, reason, and honor? Then you have the beginning of a new age. We shall start a new order of things.
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I think it is not only important that people go to the Anne Frank House to see the secret annex, but also that they are helped to realise that people are also persecuted today because of their race, religion or political convictions.
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Once you start messing with psychological well-being, we get more and more messed up.
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I think it is very important for you to do two things: act on your temporary conviction as if it was a real conviction; and when you realize that you are wrong, correct course very quickly
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True self-esteem is realizing that you are valuable because you were born. No matter where you came from, what color your skin is, what people say about your family or what mean things people may have done to you, because you were born, you are important and you matter.
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Dont back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for your beliefs builds self-confidence and self-esteem.
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Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.
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The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as possible.
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Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.
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Self-satisfaction is the state of mind of those who have the happy conviction that they are not as other men.
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People who hate often do so with great conviction. What we need are more people who love with conviction.
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I do not despair in the least of ultimate triumph. I repeat it with intense conviction.
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I should have the courage of my lack of convictions.
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Basically I got an insight into what it really was through Alcoholics Anonymous. One day the switchboard lit up and I saw where it was all going. I saw what alcohol could do to people and I saw that it wasn't a good thing anymore. Plus I wasn't a teenager anymore myself.
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We must let go of those things that don’t serve us. In order to receive the blessings intended for us, we have to make room for them.
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Self-esteem is an essential psychological need—no one can live with the conviction that they are fundamentally no good, so people who lack the real thing attempt to fake it.
