No one’s opinion affects your self-esteem more than yours. What you think about yourself determines how you feel about yourself.
Although we live with the illusion of being at war with others, situations, or fate, the real battle is with ourselves. Becoming victorious over ourselves means resetting our minds and shifting our perspectives.
Here are 75 powerful Me vs Me quotes to bring about that mind shift and improve your self-esteem.
Inspiring Me vs Me Quotes
- “To establish true self-esteem, we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.” – Denis Waitley
- “When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.” – Jean Shinoda Bolen
- “There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.” – Hindu Proverb
- “You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” – Louise L. Hay
- “When you adopt the viewpoint that there is nothing that exists that is not part of you, that there is no one who exists who is not part of you, that any judgment you make is self-judgment, that any criticism you level is self-criticism, you will wisely extend to yourself an unconditional love that will be the light of the world.” – Harry Palmer
- “The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.” – Maya Angelou
- “I found in my research that the biggest reason people aren’t more self-compassionate is that they are afraid they’ll become self-indulgent. They believe self-criticism is what keeps them in line. Most people have gotten it wrong because our culture says being hard on yourself is the way to be.” – Kristen Neff
- “We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.” – Mary Dunbar
- “Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.” – Deborah Day
- “Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” – Carl Gustav Jung
- “You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.” – Diane Von Furstenberg
- “The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.” – Mark Twain
- “It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” – Sir Edmund Hillary
- “One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.” – Michael J. Fox
- “My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” – Henry Ford
- “Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. ” – M. Scott Peck
- “If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.” – Fred Rogers
- “A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.” – Mark Twain
- “Self-care is never a selfish act —it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others.” – Parker Palmer
- “There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by myself.” – Brian Andreas
- “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.” – Benjamin Spock
- “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Howard Washington Thurman
- “Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.” – Malcolm S. Forbes
- “People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people’s minds as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.” – Elizabeth Gaskell
- “Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can’t love and respect yourself, no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are ― completely; the good and the bad ― and make changes as you see fit, not because you think someone else wants you to be different.” – Stacey Charter
Me vs Me Quotes for Loving Yourself
- “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha
- “To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.” – Oscar Wilde
- “Find the love you seek by first finding the love within yourself. Learn to rest in that place within you that is your true home.” – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
- “A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.” – Haruki Murakami
- “Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.” – Louise Hay
- “No other love, no matter how genuine it is, can fulfill one’s heart better than unconditional self-love.” – Edmond Mbiaka
- “I had to grow to love my body. I did not have a good self-image at first. Finally, it occurred to me, I’m either going to love me or hate me. And I chose to love myself. Then everything kind of sprung from there. Things that I thought weren’t attractive became sexy. Confidence makes you sexy.” – Queen Latifah
- “My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- “People who love themselves don’t hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer.” – Dan Pearce
- “If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.” – Charles Bukowski
- “To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.” – Robert Morley
- “So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.” – Alan Watts
- “Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do.” – Brené Brown
- “If you don’t love yourself, nobody will. Not only that, you won’t be good at loving anyone else. Loving starts with the self.” – Wayne Dyer
- “Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” – Lucille Ball
- “Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it. You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won’t accept.” – Anna Taylor
- “Loving yourself isn’t vanity. It’s sanity.” – Katrina Mayer
- “It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self-love deficit.” – Eartha Kitt
Me vs Me Quotes for Being Your Authentic Self
- “I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.” – Frederick Douglass
- “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right here.” – Venus Williams
- “Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.” – Maxwell Maltz
- “If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do.” – Vironika Tugaleva
- “It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.” – James Baldwin
- “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James
- “I think everybody’s weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.” – Johnny Depp
- “When you stop living your life based on what others think of you, real life begins. At that moment, you will finally see the door of self-acceptance opened.” – Shannon L. Alder
- “The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.” – Carl Gustav Jung
- “You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.” – Eckhart Tolle
- “Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.” – André Gide
- “Don’t waste your energy trying to change opinions … Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.” – Tina Fey
- “If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.” – T. Harv Eker
- “One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.” – Shannon L. Alder
- “The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.” – Robert Hand
- “To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections.” – Sandra Bierig
- “You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are.” – Yogi Bhajan
- “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself.” – Harvey Fierstein
- “Our self-respect tracks our choices. Every time we act in harmony with our authentic self and our heart, we earn our respect. It is that simple. Every choice matters.” – Dan Coppersmith
- “Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.” – Rob Liano
- “It ain’t what they call you; it’s what you answer to.” – W.C. Fields
- “Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.” – Lao-Tzu
- “People who want the most approval get the least, and the people who need approval the least get the most.” – Wayne Dyer
- “I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.” – Henry James
- “Why should we worry about what others think of us? Do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?” – Brigham Young
- “Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.” – Helen Keller
I’ve saved one of my favorite Me vs Me quotes for last. Why do I love this quote? Simple: it helps me to stop feeling guilty when I do things for myself and makes me feel great about myself (which is what self-esteem is all about).
I believe this quote by Andrew Matthews can help you feel great about yourself too!
- “A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.” – Andrew Matthews
