Quotes About Self-esteem

He had never once crossed the borders of friendliness with her and, when she thought of this, fresh anger rose, the anger of hurt pride and feminine vanity.

Never be mean to another female about her appearance. Especially if it's something she has no control over . . . Natalie

Never be mean to another female about her appearance. Especially if it's something she has no control over . . .

When you're being looked at you can't look. To look is to feel curious, to be interested, to lower yourself. No one you look at is worth it.

You have a magnificent moustache. You must be very proud of it.

Stop, would you? My confidence is in bits. I'm forty-four and feeling every second of it, and even if I wanted to, there's no way I'd reveal this elderly body to a new man. It'd be like Game of Thrones when Melisandra takes off her necklace and ages nine hundred years.

You need not apologize for being brilliant, talented, gorgeous, rich, or smart.

If I'm convinced that I'm not good enough, I will have a difficult time accepting someone into my life who thinks I am. It's the Groucho Marx syndrome of not wanting to like anyone who would want me in their club. The only way that I can accept someone's finding me wonderful, is if I find myself wonderful. But to the ego, self-acceptance is death.

The ego is our self-love turned into self-hatred.

the fact that nobody liked me at school began to fade out of my mind like blue magic marker reminders scrawled on the back of a greasy fist." greasy fist." - Marilyn Manson

All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't.

In St. Louis one of the girls had said to her, Just pretend you're pretty so they can pretend you're pretty.

In St. Louis they had made a sort of game of it, trying to pretty her up. Everything looked wrong. Just pretend you're pretty.

One shouldn't ever do anything to protect one's dignity. You either have it or you don't.

When feeling badly about ourselves, we often try on other skins rather than understand and care for our own.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Ignore them. Don't give them the opportunity to snub you. Carry yourself like you own the place.

when you seek Significance, you're always comparing yourself with someone else. And there's always someone bigger, taller, stronger, faster, richer, funnier, younger, more handsome, more beautiful, with a bigger yacht, a nicer car, a nicer home.

they can tell you that you are the most horrible human being on earth—but what matters is what you think about yourself.

The ultimate significance in life comes not from something external but from something internal. It comes from a sense of esteem for ourselves, which is not something we can ever get from someone else. People

Or maybe in school you didn't learn as quickly as you thought other kids did, and rather than considering the idea that you had a different learning strategy, you may have decided that you were "learning-disabled.

You are quite wrong about him, Felix had said. He has not been atan English school, or English university, and therefore is not like other young men that you know; but he is, I think, well educated and clever. As for conceit, what man will do any good who is notconceited? Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself. All the same, my dear fellow, I do not like Lucius Mason.

Is it not astonishing that the price generally put upon any article by the world is that which the owner puts on it?—and that this is specially true of a man's own self?

We laugh at inferior or ugly individuals, because we feel a joy at feeling superior to them.