Quotes About Self-esteem

I have been a goof my whole life. I wasn't really the popular girl in school and didn't have any boyfriends in high school because I was a nerd. I was a geek.

I thought I was so ugly for so long, and I wasted so much of my life on this dumb notion.

I'm not a body shamer. The word fat has been used to hurt me my entire life.

It is likely that for most of us, the compulsive need to do well, succeed, and achieve is a reflection of deep-seated feelings of inferiority.

child psychologists who said "John prefers to play by himself" were dead wrong. I played by myself because I was a failure at playing with others. I was alone as a result of my own limitations, and being alone was one of the bitterest disappointments of my young life.

self-esteem is not based on what we think of ourselves, nor is it based on what other people think of us. Rather, it is based on what we think others think of us.

The shortest route to ascendancy is the degradation of someone or some group. It is a dangerous and deadly shortcut to self-esteem that never arrives at its destination.

Self-doubt is a disease. And if it gets out of control, it becomes self-fulfilling.

Tjonge, jij bent wel héél lelijk, hè? - Thorn

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

You are never as bad as "they" say you are.....You are never as good as "they" say you are........YOU ARE SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN.

Don't sell yourself short. No one will value you. Set a fair price for you, your book, your services, whatever it is that you have to offer. Most of us set way too low a price. Put it a little higher than you would normally be inclined to do. The worst that can happen is someone will come along and steal it.

If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am?

Homer was so used to being told off in his life that you might as well have told a rock off for being sedimentary

value yourself the way I value you.

There is a great distance between encouragement and immodesty.

If there was one vice his old masters could smell out from a thousand li away, it was thinking too well of yourself. Or the other form of vanity that was thinking too little. *

Is that so surprising, that you should be desirable?

Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.

Olive had, of course, been born with a backbone, but she didn't exercise it very often.

I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.

There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes one's own.

Operation Self-Esteem--Day Fucking One.

A life could be spent like an apology—to prove you had been worth it.