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• A clean conscience improves one's self-esteem.
• Humility is the better part of wisdom, and is most becoming in man.
  But let no one disparage self-reliance; it is, of all the rest, the greatest quality of true manliness....
• Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem. -- Eric Hoffe
• Self-Esteem: An erroneous appraisal. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary
• In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.
  -- Jane Haddam...
• A long tradition has regarded low self-esteem as a powerful and dangerous cause of violence.
  Our review has indicated, however, that it is threatened egotism rather than low self-esteem that leads to violence....
• Barney: These fumes aren't as fun as beer. Sure, I'm all dizzy and nauseous, but where's the inflated sense of self-esteem?
  [a man at the end of the bar slumps to the floor] Moe...
• CONGRATULATIONS! Now should I make thinly veiled comments about DIGNITY, self-esteem and finding TRUE FUN in your RIGHT VENTRICLE?
  ? -- Zippy the Pinhead...
• Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend.
  Such a one is as it were another self, to whom we impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of our joy, and comforts us in our afflictio...