Quotes About Self-esteem

I have a beautiful pair of Giuseppe Zanotti black pumps that make me feel like a model every time I put them on. I have a pair of Jimmy Choo flats I would marry, if I could.

I always talk about a great-fitting pair of jeans. Girls are concerned about the way their butt looks in a pair of jeans, and I think a guy having a really great-fitting pair of jeans is just as important.

I felt embarrassed about how my body looked being so pale.

For years I hated being pale.

I used to not wear shorts in the summer time. I just wanted to hide it and wear long pants. Then after the Paralympics, I saw how the other athletes handled missing an arm or a leg and they didn't care. That was what I needed to see.

If you have to mask the things you're insecure about, go ahead. Wear four pairs of pantyhose, pad your hips, boost your boobs - whatever it takes to walk out of the house feeling like you own the world. Because there's no reason to waste your life hating something you can change.

The essence of parenthood is to make children think that they are the most handsome, intelligent, brilliant person in the world.

Looking back, the biggest mistake I made was feeling ashamed of it. Acne is a part of life. You don't need to be embarrassed of it.

Just be confident. I think confidence is the most attractive part of a person.

In my big group of girlfriends at home, I am definitely not the best looking. I did not grow up feeling like I was particularly attractive.

I was a nothing kid. Not particularly good. Not particularly bad.

If you try to breastfeed and it's not working, then you don't feel particularly good about yourself.

If you don't find yourself attractive, how do you expect your partner to?

I feel fortunate that I'm not a beauty. I'm not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for girls who are like that. There are fewer parts.

I love all parts of my body! But on a man, I love the Adonis line. It's just so sexy!

My mother passed away when I was 19. She always made me feel confident, and I've carried that feeling with me my entire life. It's helped me in this industry, where people are sizing up your looks.

Our musicians in residence carry this belief into the classroom. They don't think of children's self-esteem as so fragile that it will be shattered by the suggestion that the child guessed wrong or jumped to an invalid conclusion. They make corrections matter-of-factly, with no feeling that a chid is a failure because she has made an error, but with ocnfidence that the feedback will help the child learn and be accurate the next time.

What is most startling in reading a detailed explanation of what goes on beneath the surface at the age of fifteen is that the same dynamics continue into the twenties, thirties, fifties, seventies, and nineties. We remain trapped in living a pretend life out of an unhealthy concern for what other people think.

As far as humor goes, I've always been a very insecure person and I've always wanted to be liked.

Let others determine your worth and you're already lost, because no one wants people worth more than themselves.

When you allow a person's words to upset you, you're giving away your power.

If you don't think much of yourself, why should I, since you obviously know yourself better than anyone else?

Today, I'd like to slap this seventeen-years old kid, not because of the grades but because of his incessant need to please those who would judge him

How come Angela drives a Porsche and you're driving a ten-year-old Volvo?' Kate asked as they drove away. 'I don't have self-esteem issues,' Amanda said