Quotes About Self-esteem

I would look in the mirror and think, "This is what I am, make the most of it. Trust it. Believe in it. Confidence will prevail!

I've been cheered by thousands, booed by thousands, but nothing feels as bad as the booing inside your own head during those ten minutes before you fall asleep.

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

Procura hablar siempre bien de ti mismo e imagina que tu vida funciona como tú deseas. Así crearás nuevos patrones de felicidad.

Depression lowers self-esteem, but in many personalities, it does not eliminate pride, which is as good an engine for the fight as any I know. When you're so far down that love seems almost meaningless, vanity and a sense of obligation can save your life.

If everyone isn't beautiful, then no one is.

When I did my self-portrait, I left all the pimples out because you always should. Pimples are a temporary condition and they don't have anything to do with what you really look like. Always omit the blemishes—they're not part of the good picture you want.

Pimples are a temporary condition and they don't have anything to do with what you really look like. Always omit the blemishes—they're not part of the good picture you want.

Barefoot or first thing in the morning, I feel beautiful. I didn't always feel that way, but I feel that way now. When somebody loves you, and when you make somebody else happy, when your presence seems to make them happy, you suddenly feel like the most beautiful person in the world.

Lena wished that love were something you could flip on and off. You could turn it on when you felt good about yourself and worthy of it and generous enough to return it. You could flip it off when you needed to hide or self-destruct ad had nothing at all to give.

Skinny girls have skinny minds

The summers before that are a blur of baby oil and Sun-In and hating our bodies (I got big breasts; Tibby got no breasts) at the Rockwood public swimming pool.

At the rate I'm growing, though, I probably won't have a chest until I'm, like, twenty-eight, and then there'll just be a measly two-year window of time in which to find and wear a bikini.)

You see, they hadn't said a single nice thing to me since I had gotten the makeover

And then a frail little girl peered through the doorway. She was thin (I could tell that, even though she was dressed in an oversized top and oversized jeans), and a bright red scarf covered her head. Across the front of her T-shirt were the words: BALD IS BEAUTIFUL. She had to be Danielle Roberts.

And, I had to admit it - I was pretty proud of myself.

Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others... This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

He that is pleased with himself easily imagines that he shall please others. - On Alexander Pope

It is true, my Lucy, that we young women are too apt to be pleased with the admiration pretended for us by the other Sex. But I have always endeavour'd to keep down any foolish pride of this sort, by such considerations as these: That flattery is the vice of men: That they seek to raise us, in order to lower us, and in the end to exalt themselves on the ruins of the pride they either hope to find or inspire:

Simple honesty of purpose in a man goes a long way in life, if founded on a just estimate of himself and a steady obedience to the rule he knows and feels to be right.

how we value and treat ourselves, not just on how we value or treat others.

We all know people who are stimulating, fun, easygoing, and enjoyable to be with. When we're with them, we feel better about ourselves, and when we leave them, we feel satisfied, as if we've been given something to take with us. These are the energy boosters of the world—they send out "happy signals" because they're happy with themselves.

Paradoxically self esteem problems are more common in young people who are in the physical and mental prime of their lives.

True self esteem is not based upon how you think others see you; rather it is based upon the value you put on yourself as a human being.