Quotes About Self-esteem

You can't convince someone else - whether it's a potential employer, a loan officer at the car dealership, or someone you've been crushing on - that you're amazing and terrific if you don't actually think you are.

When you play good and people say that you have been terrific and you have been playing good football, that's something that stays and builds you and your confidence.

I remember coming in second in a singing competition when I was about 5. I was terrified and didn't win because I apparently looked miserable.

I think a lot of opportunities would have come easier to me if I had felt more comfortable and confident in my own skin and not terrified of the world around me.

I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.

But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this little box and then do their research inside it.

Once You Know Your Worth.....You Will Stop Giving Out Discounts!

I never really considered myself attractive. I was always kind of gangly in school.

We have a choice in our response to failure. We can condemn or we can learn. All of us fail, but this doesn't mean that we are failures. We need to understand that failing can be a step toward maturity, not a permanent blot on our self-esteem...We don't have to allow failure to prevent us from being used by God.

Gullibility can be thought of as a social psychological analog of anosognosia. The chronic patsy refuses to acknowledge his weakness. His denial is nourishing to his self-esteem. "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge," Charles Darwin observed.24 But it also prevents you from avoiding the same mistake next time.

Mean To His Horses seeks the approval of others, and not finding it, heaps it upon himself.

As I got to know him, I learned that Paul had a continuous "tape" playing in his head that degraded everything. He once described this process as, "…it's like a demon sits on my shoulder and continually ridicules me.

No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success If he thinks he is a winner, then he is.

broken" or simply as "bad people," using their adult-life sexual acting out as proof of how unlovable they really are. They simply don't understand that their upbringing was lacking and left them without a positive sense of self or needed life skills, and that their problematic sexual behaviors are an adaptive response to what they experienced.

If one function of low self-esteem is to keep high-status people satisfied with your deference, then its level, strictly speaking, should depend on how much deference it takes to do that; you may, in the presence of someone powerful, feel a deeper humility—about your intelligence, for example—than an objective observer would see as warranted.

We wouldn't spend so much time worrying about what other people think of us if we realized how seldom they do.

By adolescence, if not earlier, people are getting feedback about their market value, feedback that shapes their self-esteem and thus affects how high they aim their sights.

Besides, dressing like I want to be invisible only makes me feel weak. I have to be strong. So if that means wearing cute boots and nice pants and a sweet blue shirt that looks especially good on me today for some reason if I do say so myself, then so be it.

Shame is not a good emotion for a man to feel. It makes him angry as often as it makes him sorry.

Attitude and bearing. Believe you are beautiful, and so will everyone else

Katie wondered for a moment if part of the reason so many of the young women she knew who had poor self-esteem ended up that way because they had spent their lives gazing at themselves in a mirror instead of being the mirror others gazed into.

Am I pretty? I must be, I thought, for all girls in love are pretty.

You can't make someone feel good about themselves until you feel good about yourself.

What the society thinks is of no interest to me. All that's important is how I see myself. I know who who I am. I know the value of my work.