Quotes About Self-esteem

The world will knock you down plenty. You don't need to be doing it to yourself.

That's you, right?' he asks me. 'Yeah.' 'Cute. Not that I, uh, think little kids are cute. Just that you were cute. I mean, you can see how you turned out to be so...oh.

And I know what people say about not listening to insults or how you should let stuff roll off you, but it's not that easy.

Whatever we call it, I think it's the lowest part of who we are, this need to find someone else to put down.

No one can prove you dumb except yourself!

I've spent most of my life walking under that hovering cloud, jealousy, whose acid raindrops blurred my vision and burned holes in my heart. Once I learned to use the umbrella of confidence, the skies cleared up for me and the sunshine called joy became my faithful companion.

El noventa y siete por ciento de las mujeres, en algunas sociedades modernas, no se sienten bellas. Por eso, en cada tienda de ropa y en cada etiqueta, debería haber una leyenda semejante a la advertencia contra el tabaco con frases como ésta: «Toda mujer es bella. La belleza no puede ser estandarizada».

Tudo aquilo em que acreditamos nos controla. Se você crê que sua vida tem valor e que é uma pessoa capaz e inteligente, então sua crença expande sua qualidade de vida.

La comparación sólo es educativa cuando es estimulante y no despreciativa.

Ninguém pode fazer tanto mal a você quanto você mesmo.

In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued.

Believe in yourself and don't be afraid to reach for the stars.

Build your confidence and you will experience personal growth and stability.

You can't get ahead without believing in yourself.

Think highly of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate.

I'm very comfortable with how I look. I always have been. I think I look pretty good. There's nothing I want to change. I'm pretty happy with what I've got.

Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.

A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.... He will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his deepest vision of himself, the woman whose surrender permits him to experience a sense of self-esteem. The man who is proudly certain of his own value, will want the highest type of woman he can find, the woman he admires, the strongest, the hardest to conquer--because only the possession of a heroine will give him the sense of an achievement.

In my research, I've found that adults have many ways to tell themselves, "I did a bad job," and very few ways of saying, "I did a good job." We rarely recognize our successes and feel good about what we've done.

Without education, confidence does not come.

It's rare to meet somebody who's secure with herself, confident in who they are, and doesn't have anything to apologize for.

We sometimes let ourselves be rated too much by others - we put so much emphasis on a paycheck or what a magazine says.