Quotes About Self-esteem

It is common knowledge among psychologists that most of us underrate ourselves, short-change ourselves, sell ourselves short. Actually, there is no such thing as a superiority complex. People who seem to have one are actually suffering from feelings of inferiority; their superior self is a fiction, a coverup, to hide from themselves and others their deep-down feelings of inferiority and insecurity.

Your crown has been bought and paid for. Put it on your head and wear it.

We must recreate an attractive and caring attitude in our homes and in our worlds. If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do and liking how you do it.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.

You're beautiful just as you are, Lyric.

I feel beautiful when you look at me.

Boobs," she mumbled around a second slice of pizza. "Boobs are huge now. I hate it. I feel like I'm incubating aliens and they're ready to hatch.

Sorry, Bex, Jason said You don't have the recognizable facial characteristics - such as a huge chin, or a large amount of real estate between the eyes - that would merit the bestowing of a criminal mastermind nickname such as Lockjaw or Walleye. Whereas Crazytop here...well, just look at her. Atleast I can blow-dry my hair straight, I pointed out. Which is more than what I can say for your nose, Hawkface.

Is everything all right? Is everything all right? Hmm, hold on a minute, let me see . . . my mom is going out with my Algebra teacher, a subject I'm flunking, by the way; my best friend hates me; I'm fourteen years old and I've never been asked out; I don't have any breasts; and oh, I just found out I'm the princess of Genovia.

hope springs eternal, even in the heart of a fat girl.

I was kind and friendly to him," Lulu said, shaking her head. "And I exuded confidence and charm. That's what I was trying to tell you. Anyone can do it. It doesn't matter how you look or what you're wearing.

I wanted Ambiades to understand that I considered myself a hierarchy of one.

I'm sure everyone has something about themselves they'd like to change. To dance better, sing better, be stronger or taller. Zikhos snickered. The kings occasional touchiness about his height was well known. The king must have heard, because he said: In Zikhos's case: being smarter than a burnt steak.

The king shouted I think I've broken something!!! Nothing important, I'm sure. she called back My pride!!! She laughed.

I tried to avoid Mimi. Her presence seemed to call forth every rejection I'd ever experienced--the teachers who'd looked at me as though I held no promise, the boys who didn't like me back. Around her, I became fourteen again.

No one likes being talked to about their face.

Some people didn't really need makeovers, just more confidence.

I'm not just any talking mirror," Ira says. "I'm a cool talking mirror.

A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her, and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.

Self-care isn't selfish; it's self-esteem.

If you have done nothing to feel embarrassed about, don't feel embarrassed. I know this is a tough concept, but it can be mastered.