Quotes About Self-esteem

It didn't matter what you looked like. It was how you carried yourself, how you saw yourself.

My name is tally youngblood and my mind is very ugly

Making ourselves feel ugly is not fun. We are ugly.

Two weeks of killer sunburn is worth a lifetime of being gorgeous

Useless people are not improved by giving them the impression they are useful.

A woman must continually watch herself. She is almost continually accompanied by her own image of herself. Whilst she is walking across a room or whilst she is weeping at the death of her father, she can scarcely avoid envisaging herself walking or weeping. From earliest childhood she has been taught and persuaded to survey herself continually. (Page 40)

A woman must continually watch herself. She is almost continually accompanied by her own image of herself.

The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product. She is meant to imagine herself transformed by the product into an object of envy for others, an envy which will then justify her loving herself.

Women constantly meet glances which act like mirrors reminding them of how they look or how they should look. Behind every glance there is judgment.

Much has been written about codependency. All agree that it is about the loss of selfhood. Codependency is a condition wherein one has no inner life. Happiness is on the outside. Good feelings and self-validation lie on the outside. They can never be generated from within.

A woman who does not guard and treasure herself cannot be of very much value to anyone else.

Do not let people put you down. Believe in yourself and stand for yourself and trust yourself.

In this life, you have to be your own hero.

If you hide behind the things you don't want to talk about then you're going to feel insecure in all aspects of your life.

I said to my teacher, 'I can't be a singer because I'm not pretty enough, and I'm fat.' And she looked at me and said, 'Tell that to Nell Carter, babe.' That changed my life forever!

As a performer, much of my life has been spent in the spotlight. I know how important appearance can be to teens, especially the impact it can have on the way you feel about yourself.

Fire the doubters out of your life.

I was very vulnerable to criticism for many years. I could read a bad review and remember it my whole life.

Self worth is everything. Without it life is a misery.

For the better part of my adult life, I proudly avoided nerd/nimrod/goober status. I was always just cool enough.

Growing up, I just wanted to be like everyone else. I didn't value or understand the beauty in being different at the time in my life.

Style can change your look, certainly, but it can also change your life.

I live my life trying to never appear to be a small man.

The only thing that matters in life is your own opinion about yourself, nobody can destroy your dignity then, because it is not dependent on anybody's opinion.