Quotes About Self-esteem

REFUSAL When you refuse to tell your weight and age, people know you're fat and old.

people get trapped by using patterns of behavior to protect themselves against threats to their self-esteem and confidence and to protect groups, intergroups, and organizations to which they belong against fundamental, disruptive change.

This was the pain that gouged out great holes in the soul, hollowing out self-esteem and cratering a person's self respect

As children, very few of us have the capacity to fend off demeaning, negating comments, even the ones that are made without malice. Our work as adults is to make the choice to not pass those words on to our kids and to reject cruel or unthinking remarks about ourselves—to flick 'em off our shoulders like dandruff!

When you're not getting minutes, you're doubting every shot you take.

If you give me half an hour on the Internet, I can hate myself completely by the end of that 30 minutes.

I look at myself in the mirror and think I'm gorgeous.

The angle we give the bathroom mirror is always meant to flatter.

When I look in the mirror, I never see a handsome chap or the person people think I am.

I look in the mirror, and I'm a plus-size girl, but I got it going on.

It's not fun to see myself in the mirror.

Honestly, I look in the mirror, and I'm not the greatest looking kid.

I can't bear looking in the mirror - I guess that's why my hair looks like this.

If you begin to think you're something you're not, you're looking in the wrong mirror.

We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'

I know how cool I look when I look in the mirror.

I used to hate looking in the mirror. I've grown up into myself and now I'm happy with the way I look.

I can look at myself in the mirror, and I can be proud.

When a woman buys shoes, she takes them out of the box and looks at herself in the mirror. But she isn't really looking at her shoes - she's looking at herself. If she likes herself, then she likes the shoes.

It is important for women to feel beautiful when she looks in the mirror, and I tell women, 'If you don't feel beautiful, find one thing that you can look in that mirror and say, 'That is beautiful.'

I feel like I appreciate and love myself a lot more than I used to. At one point, I would look in the mirror; I just hated what I saw... and finally, when I was 17, I built some confidence, and now I try to keep that confidence going.

It's very important to feel good, but I know it's hard sometimes to look in the mirror.

I was called 'fat' 200 times on shoots and had serious trouble fitting in the clothes at fashion shows. All these things break you down to a point where you look in the mirror and don't like what you see.

For a long time after childhood ended and before I expressed my femininity through androgyny, I really didn't like looking in the mirror much because I just felt like I wasn't attractive.