Quotes About Self-esteem

A man spends his whole life trying to prove his worth to others. A woman spends her life trying to prove her worth to herself.

My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the classroom as a failure.

If only someone had told me about the confidence-boosting nature of guns, I'd have been shooting them all my life.

One gets on better in life if one is not over modest.

All I ask of Life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance.

How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably bulgy, life is a series of small humiliations.

I've striven my whole life for humility, but if I'd ever achieved it, I'd probably be pretty damn proud of that.

I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.

All the successful people I knew in life had high self-esteem and all the losers had low self-esteem.

In many ways the most dangerous aspect of undiagnosed and untreated ADD is the assault to self-esteem that usually occurs.

They may have fast-track hyperkinetic personalities, be impatient, restless, impulsive, often intuitive and creative but unable to follow through, frequently unable to linger long enough to develop a stable intimate relationship. Usually, they have self-esteem problems that began in childhood. The

Jesus did not die to increase our self-esteem. Rather, Jesus died to bring glory to the Father by redeeming people from the curse of sin.

The massive interest in self-esteem and self-worth exists because it is trying to help us with a real problem. The problem is that we really are not okay. There is no reason why we should feel great about ourselves. We truly are deficient. The meager props of the self-esteem teaching will eventually collapse as people realize that their problem is much deeper. The problem is, in part, our nakedness before God.

When you are in the grips of low self-esteem, it's painful, and it certainly doesn't feel like pride. But I believe that this is the dark, quieter side of pride — thwarted pride.

Do not pursuit such character and attitude that humiliate and degrade you in the eyes and hearts of the people.

Naturally, I stay an excellent friend of mine than whoever else since I feel the joy of fame with notability, no matter whatever it levels and ranges; it needs not a certificate.

One cannot hold its image of pride, and love together, at a time. To be a lover or proud person that lies in one's hands.

it always makes me feel good about myself when I've dressed appropriately. It happens so rarely.

If you improve a teacher's self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher's overall effectiveness across the curriculum.

As I have emphasized, HSPs are prone to low self-esteem because they are not their culture's ideal.

Or, when we feel most insecure, we act flamboyantly or make crazy jokes to ensure that everyone's attention is on us.

It is not surprising that many sensitive adolescents meet the crisis by destroying their budding self so they will not have to watch it fail to bloom "right.

The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference in our estimates of men lies in the fact that one individual is able to get his goods into the show-window, and the other is not aware that he has any show-window or any goods.

The word narcissism in its most fundamental sense means a tendency to self-worship. For the narcissist, his excessive self-absorption is a protection against unconscious but powerful feelings of inadequacy. Seduced by the narcissist's camouflage of outer charm or confidence, you are eventually drawn into the nightmare side of this relationship. By the time you realize that something is wrong, the cumulative effects can range from bruised self-esteem to severe depression.