Quotes About Self-esteem

I have the power of my height. Growing up, it was a total drawback. There was nothing good about it at all.

The way I looked when I started modelling - I was a skinny schoolgirl, stuffing tissues into my little 32A bra. I wasn't trying to be that thin; I was perfectly healthy, but still - that look is a total impossibility for women over the age of 20. Fashion has a lot to answer for, doesn't it?

I don't get people baring their lives on television. Maybe it makes other people feel better about themselves. Is that what it is? You watch these people making total fools of themselves. It's like there's absolutely no privacy.

When I was a freshman, I was 5 feet 9 and totally skinny as a pole. Knock-knees and bad hair. Then, over that summer, I grew up a little bit. Not that I was some super beauty, but at least I didn't look like I was 10 anymore and had a little self-confidence.

I was never obese, but I felt 'less than' because I wasn't as thin as other actresses. I totally fell for that low-fat craze. My goal was to be X jeans size or a specific number on the scale.

The surprising thing is that I was not funny in high school. I was always jealous of the funny kids because they always got the girls. I couldn't tell a joke to save my life.

But I had no idea what I looked like. Children may feel epic and large to theyselves and yet be only scraps to view.

An integral part of developing healthy self-esteem are the values that are part of positive self-esteem itself––values such as taking personal responsibility for yourself, showing genuine compassion for others, making good choices, exercising self-discipline, using manners, being mindful, and having balance in all things.

how often do you suppose you were told what you can do or what you can accomplish in life?

It's been my experience that many people who suffer low self-esteem allow it to go on because they believe there is nothing they can do about it; that's just life, and they believe they have to accept what life sends them.

Taking the time to consciously convince yourself to do the right thing has not only saved you time, it has done something else which is far more important to you in another way: it has created a minor success in the development of your personal credibility—a small but important gold star on your report card of self-esteem.

Instead of giving birth to dreams and accomplishment, Level 2 self-talk creates guilt, disappointment, and an acceptance of our own self-imagined inadequacies.

Malu kepada diri sendiri lebih hebat daripada malu kepada orang lain. Malu kepada orang lain boleh juga melarikan diri, tetapi malu kepada diri sendiri, ke kuburlah habis riwayat.

Your self-image is the way you see yourself, how you feel about yourself.

To get in touch with different aspects of your self-image, begin to ask yourself "How do I feel about myself right now?

People with low self-esteem seldom try to take over the world." Suddenly,

He was right; I was amazing.

Beauty isn't a one size fits all. No one is more or less. We're all just different, which is good, because so are men.

Miri laughed in return and felt her face go hot again, and it occurred to her that after so much burning her cheeks should be ashes by now.

We know it's all just daydreaming...But sometimes, it'd be nice just to hold something real in your hands that felt like a measure of your worth.

Thank you that I'm not worthless in your eyes nor in my own.

When we measure our worth by the approval of others, we are only as valuable as our last compliment or accomplishment.

She's, like, really, really beautiful, but I don't think she sees that when she looks in the mirror.

What's the sense of living if you're ashamed of yourself? Stella's father said almost to himself.