Quotes About Self-esteem

If you don't believe in yourself, then how will anyone else believe in you?

To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.

to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.

The effect of knowing one looks one's best is enormously bracing.

You're lucky you won't ever be pretty. Harriet knew already that this would keep her heartsick for months, perhaps the rest of her life, and she said thickly, I'm losing weight right now. It isn't that you're so fat, Miss Tyler said critically. You just don't have the air of a pretty woman. All your life, for instance, you'll walk like you're fat, whether you are or not.

When people criticise me, I know how to defend myself. But I'm powerless in the face of praise.

What other people think about me is none of my business .

And he needed to be able to look at himself in the mirror without having to turn away - he couldn't bear to be less than he hoped he was. It was a virtue and a fault that he would carry with him all his life.

You have never had any confidence in him. And if he has no confidence in himself it is because he sees himself through your eyes.

To lose confidence in one's body is to lose confidence in oneself.

She compensated for this sense of inferiority by making fun of everything. I did not notice it then, but she never made fun of my faults, only of my virtues;

To underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.

Sam doesn't hesitate for a minute. 'You say, Mr and Mrs Tavish, you're making me feel inferior. Do you really think I'm inferior or is it just in my mind?

If you look good, you feel good

Is you look good, you feel good!

Top tip to all teachers reading this (i.e., none, probably): try not showing off the girl who cringes when anyone even looks at her. Because it's not that helpful. Also, it's not that helpful to say in the whole class's earshot: "She's the great hope of this year group, so talented.

I think I always had joie de vivre. But I had pretty bad self-esteem growing up and much of my adult life.

I spent my childhood alone, overweight and ugly, angry at everything, and knowing nothing of a life beyond this sadness.

Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a child.

I think the pressure to be perfect generally in life has amped up massively in the last twenty years: especially for young people with the advent of social media.

P.E. was my life in school. Without it, I wouldn't be standing here. It gave me confidence when I was an overweight kid with a speech impediment.

It's not attractive when girls get super skinny. Guys don't like it. Gils don't like you as much. You lose some happiness when that's all you think about.

Being thin created intense anxiety that I wouldn't be able to maintain that weight for life, and I couldn't.

I'm not a flag waver for obesity. It's not healthy, and you have a crap life because there is such a downer on it.