Quotes About Self-esteem

Self-esteem is the result of recognizing our personal power; awe and wonder come from recognizing our lack of it. Both are true, and in an exceptional life there is no conflict between them.

Realize you are worthy of your life and live accordingly.

The more hours of television a girl watches, the fewer options she thinks she has in life.

I've spent my whole life being told I have a face like a horse. You are just what you are, aren't you?

The biggest change in my life is that I now have to apologize for being thin.

I am grandiose because I live a grandiose life; what's wrong with that?

The integrity and self-esteem gained from winning the battle against extremity are the richest treasures in my life

Life is competitive; clothes gird us for the competition.

All my life people have made fun of me because I was so skinny. They kind of made me feel bad about it sometimes. I worried that maybe people will think I am really anorexic.

I was very, very large as a kid and never athletic, and my home life was a little upside down and I never felt comfortable.

I have lived my life in a culture that hates fat people.

I was called fat and ugly in the press almost my entire life. I understand that being judged by others comes with the territory, but it broke my heart and ruined my self-esteem.

To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life.

Clothes can be important. I am learning this. For instance, often when I design and I wonder what is the point, I think of someone having a bad time in their life.

Whatever it is that gives you that confidence will vary from person to person, but I do believe that it is the key to succeeding at anything in life - career, relationships, anything.

Believing that other people are always better than you-better-looking, more capable, richer, more intelligent-and that it's very dangerous to step outside your own limits, so it's best to do nothing.

Growing up I had a lot of really negative energy in my life from people that were in my life, so I know to how to stand up for myself.

There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.

I approach most things in life with a dangerous level of confidence to balance my generally low self-esteem.

I'd like to hear them be a bit more creative, though. I've heard 'you're a sieve, you stink' my whole life and you can tell it's obviously affected me.

One of the booby traps of freedom - which is bordered on all sides by isolation - is that we think so well of ourselves. I now see that I have helped myself to the best cuts at life's banquet.

If you're upset with how you look at 25, life's going to be tough.

I've gone through my whole life caring deeply what people think of me.

Tell a female she's thin and she's yours for life.