Quotes by Nathaniel Branden

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

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

For the rational psychologically healthy man the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem the more likely one will treat others with respect kindness and generosity. People who do not experience self-love have little or no capacity to love others.

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.

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

Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem, and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in love, in sex, in parenting, in every important aspect of existence - and how high he or she is likely to rise. The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.

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.

Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender - not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

“I am responsible for my own existence and happiness.”

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