Quotes About Self-esteem

The natural solution to learning to live together in a community is first to learn to live apart as individuals and as families. Only when you feel good about yourself can you feel good about others.

Look again at the seven lessons of school teaching: confusion, class position, indifference, emotional and intellectual dependency, conditional self-esteem, and surveillance. All of these lessons are prime training for permanent underclasses

Don't Compare yourself to others

You're perfect just the way you are

Start thinking positively. You will notice a difference. Instead of 'I think I'm a loser,' try 'I definitely am a loser.' Stop being wishy-washy about things! How much more of a loser can you be if you don't even know you are one? Either you are a loser or you are not. Which is it, stupid?

Baloney is just salami with an inferiority complex.

If someone ever says you're weird, say thank you.

Start thinking positively. You will notice a difference. Instead of "I think I'm a loser," try "I definitely am a loser." Stop being wishy-washy about things! How much more of a loser can you be if you don't even know you are one? Either you are a loser or you are not. Which is it, stupid?

What you look like on the outside is not what makes you cool... I mean, I had a mullet and I wore parachute pants for a long, long time. And I'm doing ok

If someone says you're weird, say thank you.

I, also, decided to get rid of the need of approval. That is a strong addiction, the need of approval, isn't it? That---I'm on the patch right now, actually. It releases small doses of approval until I no longer crave it. And, I'm going to rip it off!

Men want to feel like they are dating a model or celebrity, so look like one!

Maybe she was born with it. Maybe it's Maybelline")

Helping feels good to the helper, but over time it may make the helped feel incompetent. Dr.

when the accomplishments of others seem attainable, they will inspire us; when they seem unattainable, they may be undermining.1

As soon as we agree to accept a positive evaluation as reason to feel good about ourselves, however, we open the door for the damaging consequences of perceived failure.

to be positive would be to accept positive statements by others, that is, compliments, but as we've seen, to do so sets us up for negative punishment.

Jeremy used to hate it when she was younger because someone in her class told her redheads were freaks of nature.But our mother told her that redheads were genetically more courageous than other people and that she should always where her hair long,like a wariors badge of honor.

is managed can have an enormous impact on the way a child feels about herself and about the world.

The real wit tells jokes to make others feel superior, while the half-wit tells them to make others feel small.

For a moment, she remembered the pain of being called ugly, and then it melted away like soap washing down a drain. She had told herself a hundred times that she could be humiliated only if she allowed it: now she needed to believe it.

Why are girls so mean to each other?

I'm making you look a little less perfect. Men are terrified by perfection.

Remember—twenty per cent of women have inferiority complexes. Seventy per cent have illusions…. Ninety per cent are afraid of being conspicuous and of what people will say. So they buy a gray suit. They should dare to be different.