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Our Motive Is Not To Prove Our Self-worth, But To Live Up To Our Possibilities.

You Can Be Loved By Your Family, Your Mate, And Your Friends Yet Not Love Yourself. You Can Be Admired By Your Associates Yet Regard Yourself As Worthless. You Can Project An Image Of Assurance And Poise That Fools Almost Everyone Yet Secretly Tremble With A Sense Of Inadequacy. You Can Fulfill The Expectations Of Others Yet Fail Your Own. You Can Win Every Honor Yet Feel That You Have Accomplished Nothing. What Shall It Profit A Person To Gain The Esteem Of The Whole World Yet Lose His Or Her Own?

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.

It's Not That Achievements Prove Our Worth But Rather That The Process Of Achieving Is The Means By Which We Develop Our Effectiveness, Our Competence At Living.

Stressing The Practice Of Living Purposefully As Essential To Fully Realized Self-esteem Is Not Equivalent To Measuring An Individual's Worth By His Or Her External Achievements. We Admire Achievements-in Ourselves And Others-and It Is Natural And Appropriate For Us To Do So. But That Is Not The Same Thing As Saying That Our Achievements Are The Measure Or Grounds Of Our Self-esteem. The Root Of Our Self-esteem Is Not Our Achievements But Those Internally Generated Practices That, Among Other Things, Make It Possible For Us To Achieve.