Quotes About Self-esteem

If a parent has no other source of self-worth and self-esteem, which is unhappily true of many parents whose lives are limited to raising "good" children, the stage is set for a dependency on children that makes the parent overanxious and severely needful that the children behave in particular ways.

Es una suerte poder desdeñar a alguien cuando la mayoría de nosotras se contenta con decir «¡Gracias!». Es como si lo oyera: «No, señor… valgo más que usted» o «Béseme los pies; mi cara es sólo para bocas importantes».

Bathsheba había alcanzado ese punto en el que la gente deja de preocuparse por lo que los demás puedan pensar.

it is incident most to them that are conscious of the fewest abilities in themselves who are forced to keep themselves in their own favor by observing the imperfections of other men. And therefore much laughter at the defects of others is a sign of pusillanimity. For of great minds, one of the proper works is to help and free others from scorn, and compare themselves only with the most able.

Fawn, build your self-esteem, your pride, your independence, with what you know, not with what you own. Avoid debt.

Nobody is better than you and remember, you are better than nobody. Thomas Jefferson

I have enough dignity to squander quite a lot.

The fruitfulness of our lives depends in large measure in our ability to doubt our own words and to question the value of our own work. The man who completely trusts his own estimate of himself is doomed to sterility.

The arguments of religious men are so often insincere, and their insincerity is proportionate to their anger. Why do we get angry about what we believe? Because we do not really believe it. Or else what we pretend to be defending as the "truth" is really our own self-esteem. A man of sincerity is less interested in defending the truth than in stating it clearly, for he thinks that if the truth be clearly seen it can very well take care of itself.

But the pride of those who live as if they believed they were better than anyone else is rooted in a secret failure to believe in their own goodness.

Why do we get angry about what we believe? Because we do not really believe it. Or else what we pretend to be defending as the "truth" is really our own self-esteem. A man of sincerity is less interested in defending the truth than in stating it clearly, for he thinks that if the truth be clearly seen it can very well take care of itself.

Outside the world of education, few would be confident, or even comfortable, claiming that it is a lack of self-esteem which leads to felonies or its presence which leads to Nobel Prizes. Yet American schools are permeated with the idea that selfesteem precedes performance, rather than vice-versa. The very idea that self-esteem is something earned, rather than being a pre-packaged handout from the school system, seems not to occur to many educators.

In dysfunctional families, people overfocus on problems—even very small ones—without allowing any focus on the innumerable ways a child does things well. This is one of the primary causes of low self-esteem. A child can do ten, fifty, a hundred things right in a day, but an overly critical parent will pick out the one thing that doesn't go well, and harp on it over and over.

And I wonder: is there a connection between high expectations and confidence, between low expectations and low self-esteem?

After all, from the ankles down, I still had it all going on.

She sighed and shook her head. "I'm not worth yer time or effort. Truly, I'm not." "And

Being a sex symbol has to do with an attitude, not looks. Most men think it's looks, most women know otherwise.

You is kind. You is smart. You is important.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

The unhappiest & unsuccessful people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think. - C. JoyBel

If we get our self-esteem from superficial places, from our popularity, appearance, business success, financial situation, health, any of these, we will be disappointed, because no one can guarantee that we'll have them tomorrow.

Good hair day. Bad hair day. Dead hair day.

self-confidence is the most important characteristic of successful people.

Why are you taking your breasts away?" -Dane "Cernunnos" Hearne