Quotes About Self-esteem

I think it's important to accentuate your features, and a lip liner does that. There's an instant change that makes you feel beautiful right away.

I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.

Confidence is instrumental to those climbing out of poverty.

There's no worse way to insult a woman than by saying she looks like a man, but once a woman gets over that, there is no stronger woman.

Being fierce is a compliment! It's not an insult.

He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be.

I am not disturbed by criticism or insults. It's all about having faith in yourself.

I never thought that I was very intelligent.

I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.

The majority of guys that I've met, that I consider confident and sexy, are pretty well rooted in who they are. They know their values and their worth as a person. They know they are intelligent, caring men, and that generates confidence.

I'd rather speak less because I don't consider myself a very intelligent person.

One of my intentions with 'Rookie' is for the girls reading it to know that they are already cool enough and smart enough and pretty enough.

As women, I think we're used to looking around to see what people think about this, who's approving of us, who's criticizing us, and whether we have to internalize their thoughts on us.

When people tell you that you're less-than and that you don't matter and that you're inferior, you internalize some of that.

I didn't have a job because nobody would hire me. My friends were getting hired, and I couldn't even get a job interview. That really rocked my self-esteem because I didn't understand what I did wrong on those job applications.

Poor women suffer terrible sexual violence that goes unreported. Because of their social class, these women do not have access to therapy or other methods of healing. Their repeated abuse ultimately eats away at their self-esteem, driving them to drugs, prostitution, AIDS, and in many cases, death.

Ela mora dentro dessa coisa confusa Dentro dessa máscara monstruosa Dentro de uma autoestima morta Dentro do desejo dele de torná-la nada Ela está lá, eu juro Eu a ouvi arfando Eu a ouvi suspirando Eu a ouvi balbuciando alguma coisa Com o que um dia foi uma boca Eu juro. Eu a ouvi. Ela mora ali.

I am going to stop mainlining my life force / Into your self-esteem: / Air pump girl blowing up boy rubber ball / You can stay flat and go nowhere by yourself

Accept your genetic blueprint. Just as a person with a shoe size of eight would not expect realistically to squeeze into a size six, it is equally futile (and uncomfortable) to have a similar expectation about body size. Respect your body, so you can feel better about who you are. It's hard to reject the diet mentality if you are unrealistic and overly critical of your body shape.

Dieting may cause stress or make the dieter more vulnerable to its effects. Independent of body weight itself, dieting is correlated with feelings of failure, lowered self-esteem, and social anxiety.

Boundaries are also invaded when someone makes comments about your weight or how you should look.

In our society, the pursuit of thinness (whether for health or physique)—has become the battle cry of seemingly every American.

A substantial body of research shows that dieting is not sustainable and leads to a host of problems, including eating disorders, food and body preoccupation, distraction from other personal health goals, reduced self-esteem, weight stigmatization, discrimination, and—paradoxically—weight gain.

The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self–esteem is determined by where they are judged to be on the ladders of worldly success. They feel worthwhile as individuals if the numbers beneath them in achievement, talent, beauty, or intellect are large enough. Pride is ugly.