Quotes About Self-esteem

No 11-year-old girl wants to be 5-10. I always felt big and unattractive.

If I was 10st, I would look highly unattractive - it would be damaging to my body.

I recently lost 50 pounds. I'm hovering on the cusp of a size eight, which seems unbelievable.

My confidence in myself is unbelievable.

It's unbelievable to me that someone can go on someone's photo and comment on their weight. It's not healthy for anyone.

I felt so unbelievably ugly for years.

It doesn't feel good when you're put down, and especially for no uncertain reason.

I think everybody, especially every woman that you speak to, has gone through periods of their life where they feel uncertain or insecure. But I've been fortunate in my own life never to have gone through extended periods of crippling insecurity.

When I got married, the Sun ran the headline: 'Here comes the bride, all fat and wide.' Luckily, it was a few days after the wedding - but it was still hideous to read at a great romantic moment.

Don't give to anyone the power to put you down. Haters are losers pretending to be winners.

One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.

The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.

A boy is supremely confident of his own power, and dislikes being treated as a child.

It is a curious psychological fact that the man who seems to be "egotistic" is not suffering from too much ego, but from too little. When the ego is strong and well developed, there is no nagging need to impress others--by money, by rudeness, or by any other show of false strength.

The man is really looking for self-esteem, and he seeks to find it by winning the esteem of others. In our society, the fastest and surest way to do this is by amassing a great deal of money. So the money becomes a substitute, a symbol, for the esteem.

The sullen workman who is afraid of being imposed upon is secretly convinced of his own inferiority--when he has to say, or think, "I'm as good as any man," he doesn't quite believe it himself.

The surest path to positive self-esteem is to succeed at something which one perceived would be difficult. Each time we steal a student's struggle by insisting they do work too easy for them, we steal their opportunity to have an esteem-building experience.

There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don't get them.

Some young ladies are so starved for male approval that what should be a normal attraction to men is accelerated into an obsessive need for male affirmation. Tragically, these dear ladies allow themselves to be devoured in the arms of men who have neither regard not respect for them as people.

Quando a mulher se relaciona bem consigo mesma e tem um nível elevado de autoestima, pode então compartilhar facilmente sua vida com outra pessoa.

Be happy for standing by yourself all along, it's worth being celebrated.

The first step toward being loved is learning to love what you see when you look in the mirror.

Cinderella is proof that a new pair of shoes can change your life.

Eye contact is the best accessory.