Quotes About Self-esteem

If you're a kid who's not necessarily attractive, and you don't have money, and you're not hip and cool, chances are you're not going to feel good about yourself and want to be an actor.

nobody likes to be made out to be morons, especially morons.

You can often outperform what other people think of you, but you will never outperform what you think of yourself.

A small bubble of self-esteem percolated up from my depths.

Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.

The Karen personality was created when Jo was nine and her mother said once too often, "Why can't you be like your cousin Karen?" Jo's internal Karen was the perfect mimic of her cousin, and fulfilled Nancy's demand that the child be neat and organized.

There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.

I have never learned how to tell somebody something good about myself; that should be a secret they must find out .

Pampered vanity is a hotter thing perhaps than starved pride.

Do you know why you're here?' the doctor said. Clumsiness. Clumsiness is the first and then we have a list: lazy, wayward, headstrong, fat, ugly, mean, tactless, and cruel. Also a liar. That category includes subheads: (a) False blindness, imaginary pains causing real doubling-up, untrue lapses of hearing, lying leg injuries, fake dizziness, and unproved and malicious malingering s; (b) Being a bad sport. Did I leave out unfriendliness?…Also unfriendliness.

Take everything as a compliment, you can never be insulted.

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conslusive evidence that your are wonderful.

My bottom is my deliquent daughter. I lavish praise upon her cheeks when she's well behaved and when she gets out of control, I pretend she isn't mine.

But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated.

The reason that there are so few women comics is that so few women can bear being laughed at.

Girls are cruellest to themselves.

There's something wrong in not appreciating one's own special abilities, my girl. Find your own limitations, yes, but don't limit yourself with false modesty.

Sometimes I don't feel as if I'm a person at all. I'm just a collection of other people's ideas," David Bowie told an interviewer in 1972, the same year he scored pop superstardom with his iconic Ziggy Stardust persona. Twenty years later, Bowie confessed that while filling auditoriums with impassioned fans back then, "I had enormous self-image problems and very low self-esteem

Negative thoughts "get stuck in your head and refuse to go, and the more you believe in them the more deeply lodged they become," says Tolle, who describes people with low self-esteem as being "stuck with hostile, life-denying, continuously critical and attacking entities that they carry in their heads and they believe . . . and they are constantly attacking themselves, or if they are not attacking themselves, they attack others around them.

care what people think

Have you looked in the mirror lately?" asked Bean.

Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.

I broke my nose playing netball aged 15. I've hated my profile ever since.