Quotes About Self-esteem

If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself.

To succeed is nothing-it's an accident. But to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.

A man needs self-acceptance or he can't live with himself; he needs self-criticism or others can't live with him.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

Success doesn't necessarily make you a happy person ... but without the confidence and security that comes from being totally happy, I believe you cannot achieve your true potential and ultimate success.

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity. People who do not experience self-love have little or no capacity to love others.

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.

As far as beauty is concerned, in order to be confident we must accept that the way we look and feel is our own responsibility.

The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.

It gives me great strength to know that half the people I meet are below average.

Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man's life, the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all his other values. Reason is the source, the precondition of his productive work - pride is the result.

You simply cannot pay the debts that come along with believing you are unworthy.

COMPARISON IS AN ACT OF VIOLENCE AGAINST THE SELF

You don't need to diet, She-Body. You are a just-right female. McNab? Eve said. Yes, sir. Shut up. It's all right, Dallas. We're a couple. A couple of what? No, don't tell me. Don't talk to me. Don't talk to each other. Let there be silence across the land.

I like ass-watching." Peabody settled herself in comfortably."When I see one bigger than mine, it makes me feel good. When I see one smaller, it helps me resist eating a whole bunch of cookies. It's a productive hobby, my ass-watching

Morris stepped back, blinked. "Well, look at you." "What?" Thrown off, Eve glanced down at herself. "You look gorgeous." She'd have been less shocked if he'd stabbed her with his scalpel. "I— What?" "Like a perfect spring day," he added as he walked over to clean his hands. "I calls 'em as I sees 'em.

Man, that did his ego good. Matter of fact, she hit him with anything like that again, he was going to feel like he could bench-press a city bus. With a jet plane on its roof.

Looking at herself in the mirror. And for the first time in her life, she respected what she saw. Bowing to her reflection, she said softly, "Pleased to meet you.

Matter of fact, when it came to manscaping, all he had was a dark stripe that ran between his belly button and his... You know, maybe size did matter, she thought.

Pride was an unattractive trait, even if it was well-placed.

She was so much more, so much better than a stolen orgasm or two with a man that she should be handling with BBQ tongs and a fire extinguisher.

Modern barber college, Smith eyes closed suffers a haircut fearing its ugliness 50 cents, a barber student olive-skinned 'Garcia' on his coat, two blond small boys one with feared face and big ears watching from seats, tell him 'You're ugly little boy & you've got big ears' he'd weep and suffer and it wouldn't even be true, the other thinfaced conscious concentrated patched bluejeans and scuffed shoes who watches me delicate, suffering child that grows hard and greedy with puberty.

I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.