Quotes About Self-esteem

Pam described herself as the person in fifth grade who got left behind when her friends got popular.

Actually, you know what? You keep thinking I'm God's gift to women, angel. It's better for me if you believe I'm the best you can get.

Snowbébé, you've probably forgotten by now, but... Once, you looked at my body—my hairless body—and said it was pretty. So you see, your words made me so very happy. I always thought I was unattractive...

She felt stupid, though she knew she wasn't. She was intelligent, had always been an A student and an overachiever. The fact that her short-term memory came and went didn't make her less intelligent. It just made her feel that way—which made her think other people would feel the same way about her. They would think of her as brain-damaged.

Well, laddie, if you've let an old buzzard like me hurt you confidence, you couldn't have had much in the first place.

Kate immediately felt like a worm.

Robert, plain-spoken man that he was, made no attempt to gloss over the fact that her appearance was not up to her usual standards. "You look as if you've been attacked by dogs

Jack made a face. "But can you imagine what it's like when you're six years old and the teacher says 'Liddle, John' at roll call? It took me years to get past the Robin Hood jokes.

No-one can put in his best performance unless he feels secure," Deming wrote,

to be seen as someone who deserves to be happy.

But she never just accepted me for the way I was.

I got singled out. I don't know why. Why do people always target me? Is it because I'm short and they figure I can't fight back? They're right, I can't, but it's not because I'm vertically challenged.

The voice boomed. "In case you hadn't noticed, your daughter is . . . overweight.

I don't know why I can't let the insults go, but I can't. I'm the product of every hurt that's ever been laid on me.

I don't really care what people tell children - when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, one more fib won't hurt. But I am infuriated by the growing notion, posited in some touchy-feely quarters, that all women are, or can be, beautiful.

What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?

Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable.

A woman can't do anything about her appearance. Either she's pretty or she isn't. But her character is quite another matter.

I wish I had an ex-wife like you in every department; over in the Fellowship Office, the formerly benevolent Carole continues to maintain an icy distance. I should think her decision to quit our relationship would have filled her with a cheerful burst of self-esteem, but she apparently views the end of our three years together in a different light.)

You think people hate a fat person? Try a fat person who's trying to get thin.

The next day at breakfast he asked his mother: Am I ugly? She sighed. Well, hijo, you certainly don't take after me. Dominican parents! You got to love them!

Let's just say, by the end of her second quarter Beli could walk down the hall without fear that anyone would crack on her. The downside of this of course was that she was completely alone.

The next day at breakfast he asked his mother: Am I ugly? She sighed. Well, hijo, you certainly don't take after me. Dominican

Creen que la gente odia a los gordos? Pues imagínense a un gordo que trata de adelgazar. Provocaba el balrog en cualquiera. Las muchachas más dulces del mundo le decían las cosas más horribles, las señoras mayores farfullaban, Eres repugnante, repugnante, e incluso Melvin, que nunca había demostrado ninguna tendencia anti Óscar, empezó a llamarlo Jabba the Hutt, solo porque le dio la gana. Era pura locura.