Quotes by : Nathaniel Branden

It sounded, I told him, as if he had never learned to balance projecting goals into the future with appreciating....

The first act of honoring the self is the assertion of consciousness: the choice to think, to be aware,....

Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

The challenge for people today--and it is not and easy one--is to maintain high personal standards even....

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

Chances are, when you were young, you were told, in effect, "Listen, kid, here is the news: life is not....

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem the more likely one will treat....

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

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

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can....