Quotes About Self-esteem

The trick is not caring what EVERYBODY thinks of you and just caring about what the RIGHT people think of you.

Compliment inflates. Blame deflates. Truth understates.

The foundation of lasting self-confidence and self esteem is excellence, mastery of your work.

The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and respect yourself.

Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

It's all very well to say that everyone is beautiful just the way they are, but the truth is that sometimes I feel fat and ugly and I want to hide away forever.

Never doubt yourself. Never change who you are. Don't care what people think and just go for it

There is always someone smarter than you; you'd think we die from the constant pain of our mental inferiority, except that most of the time we're too stupid to feel it.

In truth I was very pleased with myself and with my story and all that had happened in it. Because you can't help being impressed with your own story. Because if you're not impressed with your own story, then who will be?

Don't settle for less than you deserve. You are worthy of love, respect, and happiness.

We don't begin our lives by asking: Am I enough? Am I worthy? Am I deserving or lovable?

There is a difference between thinking you deserve to be happy and knowing you are worthy of happiness.

First," said Ms. Johnson, "I want you to know that you are all winners," Why do grown-ups always say that? Duh,we know we're not all winners.

Action is a highroad to self-esteem.

Psychologists, sociologists, philosophers, novelists, and technologists have all written about the effects of constant surveillance. Studies show that we are less healthy, both physically and emotionally. We have feelings of low self-esteem, depression, and anxiety. Surveillance strips us of our dignity. It threatens our very selves as individuals. It's a dehumanizing tactic employed in prisons and detention camps around the world.

It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.

Pride is holding your head up high when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.

He is able who thinks he is able.

a mother's death also means the loss of the consistent, supportive family system that once supplied her with a secure home base, she then has to develop her self-confidence and self-esteem through alternate means. Without a mother or mother-figure to guide her, a daughter also has to piece together a female self-image of her own.

She who showed weakness to teenagers would be picked on to death. True fact of life.

Beautiful I would never be. Striking, that I could manage.

One of my biggest attributes, if you speak to my coaches from when I was a young lad, is that I've always believed in my own ability and been a confident young man.

I think young men and boys are taught to fail. It's nothing to them; they do sport, they fall over, they shout, 'I'm all right,' and carry on. But with girls, they're so appallingly embarrassed to fail, it's like it's considered unfeminine.

Young men feel they have much to prove; older men, as a very general rule, tend to feel more comfortable in their skins.