Nathaniel Branden Quotes
Top 90 wise famous quotes and sayings by Nathaniel Branden
Nathaniel Branden Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The real basic power of an individual isn't what he or she knows; it's the ability to think and learn and face new challenges.
As you grow in self-esteem, your face, manner, way of talking and moving will tend naturally to project the pleasure you take in being alive.
What is required for many of us, paradoxical though it may sound, is the courage to tolerate happiness without self-sabotage.
If we do not believe in ourselves- neither in our efficacy nor in our goodness- the universe is a frightening place.
Most of the time, I regard the judgment of people as a waste of time. I regard the judgment of behavior as imperative.
Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.
To honor the self is to be willing to think independently, to live by our own mind, and to have the courage of our own perceptions.
It would be hard to name a more certain sign of poor self-esteem than the need to perceive some other group as inferior.
The greater a child's terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a strong and healthy sense of self.
Where we see self esteem, we see self acceptance. High self esteem individual tend to avoid falling into an adversarial relationship with themselves.
Anyone who really loves you wants you to be authentic. And anyone who doesn't want you to be authentic doesn't really love you.
To attain "success" without attaining positive self-esteem is to be condemned to feeling like an imposter anxiously awaiting exposure.
Perhaps the essence of our evolution as human beings is to keep answering, on deeper and deeper levels, the basic question: Who am I?
We tend to feel most comfortable, "most at home", with people whose self esteem level resembles our own.
Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion.
The desire for self-esteem without integrity is like the desire for wealth without effort-a longing for the unearned.
A productive purpose to which you give yourself fully and joyfully is one of the great adventures of life. It is a uniquely human source of happiness.
One of the most important forms of heroism is the heroism of conciousness, the heroism of thought: the willingness to tolerate aloneness.
High self esteem people can surely be knocked down by an excess of troubles, but they are quickerto pick themselves up again.
If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a desert island.
The first love affair you must consummate is the love affair with yourself. Only then are you ready for a romantic relationship.
If you face life without confidence in your own powers, you succumb too easily to setbacks and adversity; you lack the will to persevere.
You have a right to your feelings. Your feelings are there to tell you something, but they are not infallible guides to behavior.
If you are terrified of making mistakes, you will be reluctant to acknowledge them when you do make them-and therefore you will not correct them.
Fully to surrender to love can be terrifying. But it is the price life asks in exchange for the possibility of ecstasy.
The ultimate test of our integrity is not how we deal with those whom we agree but how we deal with those who we do not agree.
In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.
When self-esteem is low, we are often manipulated by fear ... We live more to avoid pain than to experience joy.
A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade ... there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event.
Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us ... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life.
The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.
Self-discipline is the ability to organize your behavior over time in the service of specific goals.
The concept of romantic love as a widely accepted cultural value and as the ideal basis of marriage was a product of the nineteenth century.
The thing I want you to understand," Ayn was saying, "is that no matter how hard the battle, it can be won. You can break through.
When we bury our feelings, we also bury ourselves. It means we exist in a state of alienation. We rarely know it, but we are lonely for ourselves.
One of the characteristics of love relationships that flower is a relatively high degree of mutual self-disclosure