Quotes About Self-esteem

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.

I can last two months on a good compliment.

I felt very good; I judged I had done it pretty neat--I reckoned Tom Sawyer couldn't a done it no neater himself. Of course he would a throwed more style into it, but I can't do that very handy, not being brung up with it.

They were nothing but ravens—I knew that—what they thought of me could be a matter of no consequence—and yet when even a raven shouts after you, What a hat! Oh, pull down your vest! and that sort of thing, it hurts you and humiliates you, and there is no getting around it with fine reasoning and pretty arguments. Animals

My parents were told by the principal of West Barnstable Elementary School and my teacher that I was a bright boy whose spelling was in the retarded range and whose handwriting was the worst they'd ever seen. I find it embarrassing that I spell so badly. I will do almost anything to avoid being embarrassed, but no effort either on my part or on the part of any teacher has ever dented my utter bafflement when it comes to choosing which letters to put down, how many, and in what order.

A happy person with decent self-esteem wouldn't bother to have credentials as good as mine.

Imagine what effect it would have on you if someone stood behind you all day telling you how useless you were when you were trying desperately to cope with a difficult experience. Now imagine how much worse it would be if the criticism and harsh judgment came from inside your own mind.

Pimples were gathered in peer groups

people with weight issues often feel judged and attacked, partly because they spend so much time judging and attacking themselves.

hold out your right hand, palm up. Imagine a 2-inch-tall version of yourself in a military uniform, with a whip in one hand and a gun in the other, stomping around in your palm, shrieking deeply personal insults and commanding you to lose weight. This is the Dictator.

Don't allow anybody to make you feel that you're nobody.

How do I look, Marty?' he would say

Once you start believing in yourself, anything is possible. Once you start believing in yourself, your dreams take shape. The more you believe, the more you achieve.

But there were certain moments in life that forever defined one as a person - in one's own estimation, anyway. And one's own self esteem, when all was said and done, was of far more importance than the fickle esteem of one's peers.

Ladies did not allow fear to master them. Ladies did not abjure society merely because they were embarrassed and unhappy, merely because they felt unattractive and unwanted. Ladies did not give in to self-pity.

Insults are only really effective, she said, when the person insulted cares for the good opinion of the insulter

em geral você subestimou suas próprias aptidões. É possível que você não seja em si mesmo luminoso, mas é um condutor de luz. Algumas pessoas, sem possuir gênio, têm o notável poder de estimulá-lo.

Subestimarse es algo tan alejado de la verdad como exagerar las propias facultades.

La mediocridad no reconoce nada por encima de sí misma, pero el talento reconoce al genio al instante

Every time I caught a glimpse of myself in the glass of a shop, I felt I was someone to be taken seriously; not a girl anymore, but a young woman.

Eu nunca procuro derrotar o homem que estou a combater - explicou ele - procuro derrotar a confiança que ele tem em si próprio. Uma mente perturbada pela dúvida não se pode concentrar no curso em direcção a vitória. Dois homens são iguais, verdadeiramente iguais, só quando têm ambos uma autoconfiança igual

Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.

For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be satisfied without comparison with others.

Where there is much pride or much vanity, there will also be much revengefulness. - On Psychology