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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. — Nathaniel Branden

When your principles seem to be demanding suicide, clearly it's time to check your premises — Nathaniel Branden

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. — Nathaniel Branden

Regardless of what we think we're teaching, we teach what we are. — Nathaniel Branden

What is required for many of us, paradoxical though it may sound, is the courage to tolerate happiness without self-sabotage. — Nathaniel Branden

Integrity means congruence. Words and behavior match. — Nathaniel Branden

I have to respect other's opinions even if I don't agree with them. — Nathaniel Branden

If we do not believe in ourselves- neither in our efficacy nor in our goodness- the universe is a frightening place. — Nathaniel Branden

Our motive is not to prove our self-worth, but to live up to our possibilities. — Nathaniel Branden

Most of the time, I regard the judgment of people as a waste of time. I regard the judgment of behavior as imperative. — Nathaniel Branden

Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves. — Nathaniel Branden

Do not marry the enemy of your excitement. — Nathaniel Branden

We must become what we wish to teach. — Nathaniel Branden

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. — Nathaniel Branden

It would be hard to name a more certain sign of poor self-esteem than the need to perceive some other group as inferior. — Nathaniel Branden

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. — Nathaniel Branden

Where we see self esteem, we see self acceptance. High self esteem individual tend to avoid falling into an adversarial relationship with themselves. — Nathaniel Branden

The stability we cannot find in the world, we must create within our own persons. — Nathaniel Branden

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. — Nathaniel Branden

What is guilt? It is moral self-reproach-I did wrong when it was possible to have done otherwise. — Nathaniel Branden

To attain "success" without attaining positive self-esteem is to be condemned to feeling like an imposter anxiously awaiting exposure. — Nathaniel Branden

Perhaps the essence of our evolution as human beings is to keep answering, on deeper and deeper levels, the basic question: Who am I? — Nathaniel Branden

A goal without an action plan is a daydream. — Nathaniel Branden

The lies most devastating to our self-esteem are not so much the lies we tell as the lies we live. — Nathaniel Branden

Feel deeply to think clearly. — Nathaniel Branden

We tend to feel most comfortable, "most at home", with people whose self esteem level resembles our own. — Nathaniel Branden

Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion. — Nathaniel Branden

Sometimes pain is easier to bear alone than happiness. — Nathaniel Branden

Of all the judgements we pass, none is as important as the one we pass on ourselves. — Nathaniel Branden

Most of us are capable of more than we believe. — Nathaniel Branden

I am responsible for my own existence and happiness. — Nathaniel Branden

The desire for self-esteem without integrity is like the desire for wealth without effort-a longing for the unearned. — Nathaniel Branden

No one is coming to save you ... — Nathaniel Branden

There is never any valid reason for not being in full mental focus. — Barbara Branden

The first love affair you must consummate is the love affair with yourself. Only then are you ready for a romantic relationship. — Nathaniel Branden

The world belongs to those who persevere. — Nathaniel Branden

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause. — Nathaniel Branden

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. — Nathaniel Branden

High self esteem people can surely be knocked down by an excess of troubles, but they are quickerto pick themselves up again. — Nathaniel Branden

Respect starts with ourselves. — Nathaniel Branden

In the inner courtroom of my mind, mine is the only judgment that counts. — Nathaniel Branden

Fear and pain should be treated as signals not to close our eyes but to open them wider. — Nathaniel Branden

A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him. — Nathaniel Branden

One of the most important forms of heroism is the heroism of conciousness, the heroism of thought: the willingness to tolerate aloneness. — Nathaniel Branden

One of the hardest expressions of self-assertiveness is challenging your limiting beliefs. — Nathaniel Branden

Your life is important. Fight for it. Honour your highest potentials. — Nathaniel Branden

Capitalism, by its nature, entails a constant process of motion, growth and progress. — Nathaniel Branden

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. — Nathaniel Branden

An emotion is both a mental and a physical event. — Nathaniel Branden

Take responsibility for finding it. It is only by grace of the second type — Nathaniel Branden

Integrity is congruence between what you know, what you profess, and what you do. — Nathaniel Branden

If you face life without confidence in your own powers, you succumb too easily to setbacks and adversity; you lack the will to persevere. — Nathaniel Branden

You have a right to your feelings. Your feelings are there to tell you something, but they are not infallible guides to behavior. — Nathaniel Branden

Ideas do matter and do have consequences. — Nathaniel Branden

For "I" to become "we" and yet remain "I," is one of the great challenges of marriage. — Nathaniel Branden

A mind that trusts itself is light on its feet. — Nathaniel Branden

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. — Nathaniel Branden

To trust one's mind and to know that one is worthy of happiness is the essence of self-esteem. — Nathaniel Branden

Fully to surrender to love can be terrifying. But it is the price life asks in exchange for the possibility of ecstasy. — Nathaniel Branden

Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself. — Nathaniel Branden

When people are not accepting toward themselves they
are often obsessed with acceptance by others. — Nathaniel Branden

It is painful to face the self we know we have never had the integrity to honor and assert. — Nathaniel Branden

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. — Nathaniel Branden

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. — Nathaniel Branden

Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves. — Nathaniel Branden

Do you want to be like Goethe or any of those so-called geniuses who marry a nothing hausfrau? — Nathaniel Branden

Self-esteem is not a luxury; it is a profound spiritual need. — Nathaniel Branden

Be careful what you say to your children. They may agree with you. — Nathaniel Branden

Never marry a person who is not a friend of your excitement. — Nathaniel Branden

When self-esteem is low, we are often manipulated by fear ... We live more to avoid pain than to experience joy. — Nathaniel Branden

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. — Nathaniel Branden

Doing more of what doesn't work doesn't work. — Nathaniel Branden

Freedom is still the most radical idea of all. — Nathaniel Branden

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. — Nathaniel Branden

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. — Nathaniel Branden

Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss. — Nathaniel Branden

Self-discipline is the ability to organize your behavior over time in the service of specific goals. — Nathaniel Branden

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. — Nathaniel Branden

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. — Nathaniel Branden

It is very difficult to accept in others emotions you cannot accept in yourself. — Nathaniel Branden

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. — Nathaniel Branden

A bully hides his fears with fake bravado. That is the opposite of self-assertiveness. — Nathaniel Branden

One of the characteristics of love relationships that flower is a relatively high degree of mutual self-disclosure — Nathaniel Branden

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance. — Nathaniel Branden

Either you will make your life work, or your life will not work. — Nathaniel Branden

I cannot organize my behaviour optimally if my goal is merely "to do my best." The assignment is too vague. — Nathaniel Branden

To persevere with the will to understand in the face of obstacles is the heroism of consciousness. — Nathaniel Branden

You can no more have too much self-esteem than you can have too much health. — Nathaniel Branden

So far as we can ascertain, in primitive cultures the idea of romantic love did not exist at all. — Nathaniel Branden

Your life is important. Honor it. Fight for your highest possibilities. — Nathaniel Branden

If I am unwilling to take responsibility for the attainment of my desires, they are not really desires - they are merely daydreams. — Nathaniel Branden

A moral person is one who constantly exercises, and acts on, his best rational judgment. — Barbara Branden