Quotes About Self-esteem

And besides, isn't this the way one loses boyfriends, by acting paranoid and jealous and insecure? I'm fairly certain this is not a good look on me.

Like different how?" I know I'm digging for a compliment, but I don't care.

We need to work at ensuring that our commitment to holiness is a commitment to God, not to our own self-esteem.

Human beings destroy nature, conquer other cultures, and conceive themselves kings of infinite space. And human beings also participate in religious illusions, which boost their self-esteem by providing them with a hallucinatory control over the universe, a sense of divine protectedness and importance. Death is evaded by narcissistic inflation and delusions of dominance.

Integrity and self-esteem are related. The more successfully parents look after a child's integrity, the greater the possibility that the child will develop healthy self-esteem.

I had discovered that Lucy, despite her tough demeanor, was actually quite insecure; she really needed to be dominated.

I don't put weight on fame, and having people around me just because I am famous makes me feel really bad about myself.

You're very short, aren't you?" She smirked at Petunia. "And you've got a nose like a stoat," Petunia replied. "But at least I can always have my gowns altered.

but we can't allow ourselves to do the work for bullies. Give a girl an insult, she'll feel bad for a day, but teach her to hate her body, she'll feel bad forever.

Give a girl an insult, she'll feel bad for a day, but teach a girl to hate her body and she'll feel bad forever.

If your husband is cheating on you, it doesn't mean that you need to get prettier -- it means he's a scumbag.

When you look hard enough and long enough at your own face, everything about it starts to seem hideous.

We like to look for patterns and find connections in unrelated events. This way we can explain them to ourselves. Life seems neater, or at least less messy. We need to feel we are in control: it is integral to our self-esteem. We also know, though we deny it, that we are not in control. So we settle for the illusions of control. What if we stopped fooling ourselves?

Never, ever point out that a woman is eating too much.

The only haven for having a sense of identity is conformity. Being acceptable really means not being different from anybody else. Feeling inferior stems from feeling different, and no question is asked whether the difference is for the better or the worse.

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It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that if you tell kids they're stupid--directly or indirectly--sooner or later they start to believe it.

The secretary was a good-looking girl—or would have been if she'd given herself a chance. Some discouraging experience in her background had made her feel that she couldn't be bothered with sex appeal, and so she slicked her hair back, used no make-up, and hated men.

I've exercised with women so thin, buzzards followed them to their cars.

A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.

Unlike the baboon who gluts himself only on food, man nourishes himself mostly on self-esteem. It

The person has to learn to derive his self-esteem more from within himself and less from the opinions of others; he has to try to base it on real qualities and capacities, things he can make or do

when people do not have self-esteem they cannot act, they break down.