Quotes About Self-esteem

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Confidence is one thing, disrespect is quite another. (Justice Elizabeth Knight)

Then, all censure of a man's self is oblique praise.

Even though I have not mastered it, I now have a better sense of what makes us want others to think well of us, and how we can prevent that desire from ruling in our hearts. False Narrative: My Value Is Determined by Your Assessment

Losing your hair and the need to replenish it at all cost is overrated, being bald is a beautiful or manly thing embrace it

Beauty magazines make my girlfriend feel ugly.

If a man believed all that other people choose to say in their own favor, he might get an oversized opinion of them, and an udersized opinion of himself.

The most dangerous men on earth are those who are afraid they are wimps

All violence is an attempt to replace shame with self-esteem.

We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposes to rob us of their companionship. It is obviously not the ideas themselves that are dear to us, but our self-esteem, which is threatened.

Self esteem and depression go hand in hand. They are directly proportionate to each other and if there is variation in one then there will be a variation in the other one as well.

Most leaders who fail,' Bill George says in an interview with Pamela Hawley, 'really suffer from a lack of a strong identity, belief in themselves and, to be frank, respect for themselves.

Honey, lately your low self-esteem is just good common sense

I was shameless, and handsome, and well-endowed, and those three things in combination, I think, will never leave you high and dry.

Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It's a grain. It's like, like, grits, but with high self-esteem.

I wish I could hit upon a pleasant track of thought, a track indirectly reflecting credit upon myself, for those are the pleasantest thoughts, and very frequent even in the minds of modest mouse-coloured people, who believe genuinely that they dislike to hear their own praises.

It doesn't do my self-esteem much good though, does it?' 'Your self-esteem has had a lifetime of steady attention,' said Philippa abstractedly.

protested Mrs. Featherstone, a lady in her thirties, whose violently compressed figure suggested that she was engaged in a perpetual struggle to compute her weight in terms of the first syllables of her name rather than the last.

el orgullo se siente herido más por lo que imagina que por la realidad.

I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don't believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view.

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now." Zaphod glared at her again, then laughed.

Be content with what nature made you, or run the risk of earning contempt by trying to be what you're not.

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.

E un fenomen foarte des întâlnit. Dac? v?d vreodat? pe cineva care pare s? aib? o p?rere foarte bun? despre sine ?i se laud? f?r? încetare, ?tiu de fiecare dat? c? undeva exist? un tainic sentiment de inferioritate.