Quotes About Self-esteem

Whatever people think of me is none of my business.

I realize that no one has been crueler to me than I have been to myself. The most dangerous place on earth is inside my head.

We often play small, so as not to threaten other people. We don't want to intimidate them by our brightness, but the truth is, you do them and yourself a disservice by dimming what you've been given—your intelligence, your light. Those are your gifts.

Why not put on your best everyday? Put your best foot forward. Even if it's just for yourself, even if it's for a trip to the grocery store.

the only graceful way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you cant ignore it, top it; if you cant top it, laugh at it; if you cant laugh at it, its probably deserved

The more we have sought self-fulfillment, self-actualization, self-awareness, and self-esteem, the more we have distanced ourselves from the ones who can teach us who we really are. We have failed to recognize that as our ties to our earthly parents have unraveled, so have our ties to our heavenly parents. (Chapter 6)

When people flatter you constantly it is very tempting to think you deserve it.

How anybody dresses is indicative of his self-concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either.

Remember - the fault is in the garment, certainly not the girl. There is nothing whatsoever wrong with the shape of her. Some designers cut their clothes for certain body types and others for others. Occasionally the pattern will make her ass look strangely square or the fabric will cling in an unflattering way, but Not Cut Well is always the answer, and it has the extremely delightful quality of saving your ass and being completely true at the same time. Use it wisely.

Ch?opak nawet przystojny, tylko czo?o mia? troch? za niskie. Ale ostatecznie czo?o to nie Pa?ac Kultury, mo?e by? i niskie, w pracy umys?owej to nie przeszkadza.

?imdi bak?yorum,yüzünüz hiç de fena bir k?za benzemiyor.Fakat yapt?klar?n?z? kendiniz be?eniyor musunuz ?

Unfortunately, these days even so-called spiritual leaders are talking about self-esteem. "Self" and "esteem" are both a problem. Both are very limited entities; both are fragile; both will always be insecure. If you have no esteem, very good. If you have no self, fabulous!

This was my first really big step toward self-degradation: when I endured all of that pain, literally burning my flesh to have it look like a white man's hair. I had joined that multitude of Negro men and women in America who are brainwashed into believing that the black people are "inferior"—and white people "superior"—that they will even violate and mutilate their God-created bodies to try to look "pretty" by white standards.

If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.

lowly; but a man's true greatness lies in the consciousness of an honest purpose in life, founded on a just estimate of himself and everything else, on frequent self-examination, and a steady obedience to the rule which he knows to be right, without troubling himself, as the emperor says he should not, about what others may think or say, or whether they do or do not do that which he thinks and says and does.

I often wonder how it is that most people value their own lives above others, yet value other's opinions of them over their own self-opinions.

You want the praise of people who kick themselves every 15 minutes. The praise of people who despise themselves?

Que no te aparte que detrás venga la crítica o la palabra de algunos, por el contrario, si está bien hecho o bien dicho, no te subestimes. Ellos

Don't worry about what others think. Mind what you think. Watch the movements of your mind, and focus your thoughts on something worthy.

the man to open his ears widest to flatterers is he who first flatters himself and is fondest of himself.

The inventor of the mirror did few of us any favours: we must have been happier before we knew what we looked like.

I tell myself it doesn't matter, your name is like your telephone number, useful only to others; but what I tell myself is wrong, it does matter.

I avoid looking down at my body, not so much because it's shameful or immodest but because I don't want to see it. I don't want to look at something that determines me so completely.   I

Quien inventó el espejo nos hizo un flaco favor a la mayoría; debíamos de ser más felices antes de saber la imagen que damos.