Quotes About Self-esteem

Como indica un artículo de The New York Times,32el fracaso ha pasado de ser una acción (yo fracaso) a ser una identidad (yo soy un fracasado). Esto es especialmente cierto en la mentalidad fija.

As a New York Times article points out, failure has been transformed from an action (I failed) to an identity (I am a failure).

Combine perpetrators who have high self-esteem and victims who are helpless, and you have a recipe for the escalation of brutality. This brutality is not confined to brutes—sadists or psychopaths. It can be, and usually is, committed by ordinary individuals, people who have children and lovers, "civilized" people who enjoy music and food and making love and gossiping as much as anyone else.

My bottom is so big it's got its own gravitational field.

I always look at the list of viewers and do you know what it was like to look at that list and see your name less and less?' FUCKING INSTAGRAM AND NO ONE SHOULD LOOK AT THAT FUCKING LIST.

These are big trade-offs for a simple piece of cake —add five hundred calories, subtract well-being, allure, and self-esteem — and the feelings behind them are anything but vain or shallow... The experience of appetite in this equation is an experience of anxiety, a burden and a risk; yielding to hunger may be permissible under certain conditions, but mostly it's something to be Earned or Monitored and Controlled.

You are whatever and whoever your self-confidence allows you to be

Never underestimate yourself

I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to laxatives to fasting. Those were my main ways of controlling my weight.

I was a lucky girl–without the self-esteem to feel it, or the wherewithal to enjoy what there was to enjoy of it and then let go.

You needn't ever make mountains out of molehills again. You have misjudged yourself. You are not who you think you are.

It's not how you feel about someone; it's how they make you feel about yourself when you're with them. (Quote from Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge by Sheila Weller)

Winning is overrated, because winning and losing are both your acceptance of being rated.

My method of helping someone is saying, 'Wow, you look amazing. Let me help you look even better.' I think tearing someone down is an awful thing to do. It has a lasting impression on people.

THE "educated Negroes" have the attitude of contempt toward their own people because in their own as well as in their mixed schools Negroes are taught to admire the Hebrew, the Greek, the Latin and the Teuton and to despise the African. Of the hundreds of Negro high schools recently examined by an expert in the United States Bureau of Education only eighteen offer a course taking up the history of the Negro,

The educated negroes have the attitude of contempt toward thier own people because they are taught to admire the Hebrews, the Greek, the Lati and the Teuton and to despise the African.

You're just worried they'll hire a male instructor and he'll be hotter than you." Jace's eyebrows went up. "Hotter than me?" "It could happen," Clary said, "You know, theoretically." "Theoretically the planet could suddenly crack in half, leaving me on one side and you on the other, forever and tragically parted, but I'm not worried about that either. Some things," Jace said, with his customary crooked smile, "are just too unlikely to dwell upon.

So I developed very early a massive inferiority complex, and I've told the story often about how that inspired me later in life to get involved in other things, because I couldn't out-do my brothers in sports, and it's a very competitive relationship.

El modesto se embriaga mucho antes cuando prueba la vanidad.

Self esteem is the dough that makes us rise to the top, or fall to the bottom of the heap ~ Tiffani S. Hall, American Poet & Writer

Si dejas que se den cuenta de que sus palabras te hacen daño, jamás te librarás de las burlas. Si te ponen un mote, recógelo y transfórmalo en tu nombre.

Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor, and it can never be used to hurt you.

A modest fellow, this one," the septon said to Ser Lucas. "Were I as large as him, I'd call myself Ser Sefton the Immense. Ser Sefton the Tower. Ser Sefton with the Clouds About His Ears.

Si dejas que se den cuenta de que sus palabras te hacen daño, jamás te librarás de las burlas.