Quotes About Self-esteem

The most capricious modern entitlement is not just Social Security but to self-esteem.

Los padres tienden a prestar mayor atención a sus hijos cuando tienen un mal comportamiento que cuando hacen las cosas de manera correcta. En general, los niños están mucho más sujetos a las críticas que a los elogios y esto quizá tenga un efecto negativo sobre su autoimagen y seguridad propia. Los niños necesitan más reforzamiento positivo.

It's not wrinkles. I just have too much skin for the size of my face.

In his private heart no man much respects himself.

To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

I don't like my voice. I don't like the way I look. I don't like the way I move. I don't like the way I act. I mean, period. So, you know, I don't like myself.

For years I stopped reading beauty magazines because I couldn't look at one without wanting to blow my brains out. How can those women look so good?

I'm walking insecurity. Without all this makeup, I look like a refugee when I get up in the morning.... I generally look like one major bowwow. I mean arf.

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

A great manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are. He forces you to have a good opinion of yourself. He lets you know he believes in you. He makes you get more out of yourself. And once you learn how good you really are, you never settle for playing anything less than your very best.

He who gladly does without the praise of the crowd will not miss the opportunity of becoming his own fan.

Flattery is all right - if you don't inhale.

The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once a minute something generous dies for want of it.

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

I would have praised you more had you praised me less.

When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured.

No one can builu her security upon the nobleness of another person.

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.

I was always willing to take a great deal of the burden of getting along in life on my own shoulders, but I wasn't willing to give myself a pat on the back. I was always looking to somebody else to give me that. ... That was all wrong.