Quotes About Self-esteem

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.

Noelle: But I look like a freak now. Craig: I told you, Noelle, everybody has problems. Some people just hide their crap better than others. But people aren't going to look at you and run away. They're going to look at you and think that they can talk to you, and that you'll understand, and that you're brave, and that you're strong. And you are. You're brave and strong. p.366-367

Huh, yeah,' Johnny says. 'My mom was always complimenting me, and look how I turned out.

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He was a flower that bloomed with attention—be it positive or negative—and wilted when ignored. Peacock theory wasn't just to attract girls.

There's nothing a man with low self-esteem loves more than a beautiful woman who doesn't know she's beautiful.

Simply by defining oneself as a PUA—a title earned solely by the responses of women—one becomes doomed to derive his entire self-esteem and identity from the attention of the opposite sex, not

Belief in yourself is more important than endless worries of what others think of you. Value yourself and others will value you. Validation is best that comes from within.

Every girl is beautiful. Sometimes it just takes the right guy to see it.

Because people don't always want the truth. Like when your girlfriend asks if a particular outfit makes her look fat, you should tell her she looks beautiful.

There are many artists who feel that in order to move forward in their careers, they have to lose a drastic amount of weight.

Criticism, even when you try to ignore it, can hurt. I have cried over many articles written about me, but I move on and I don't hold on to that .

I'm really bad at taking compliments, but whenever I get them, I tell myself, 'Way to go, girl' and move on.

When I was coming up, we didn't have the movement of Black Girl Magic or Black Girls Rock, but my parents made it their business to make sure I saw positive images of myself and celebrated images of black women.

It's very funny that I'm being appreciated for my dance moves because when I was young, I was made fun of, as nobody thought I was able to dance.

I guess I could say I'm an actor, which I am, but that sounds like I'm putting down being a movie star, which, let's face it, is what I've become to many people. For myself, I'm a guy who was very insecure from about age 14 until the day I hit my 30th birthday.

I have been trolled multiple times, and it doesn't affect me anymore.

I don't have a muscle body. I don't have a chiseled frame.

See, I hold myself through my own muscle strength. That is why I'm built like Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Growing up, and the way that the media portrays, you're supposed to look a certain way. Muscles aren't beautiful. Muscles aren't feminine.

The way you talk to yourself sometimes is terrible! I hear myself, and I go, 'I can't believe you're talking to my friend Allison like that!' It's really terrible, the things we say to ourselves.

My motto is never let anyone dull your shine.

I look in the mirror and see a few scars, but I like myself.