Quotes About Self-esteem

Self-love is the greatest of flatterers.

The most violent passions have their intermissions; vanity alone gives us no respite.

Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it.

Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses.

In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'

I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.

They are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly.

As a rule, models are unfamiliar with what the word eating means to most people.

Oye! Puede que mi cuerpo sea pequeño, pero mi espíritu es grande. Por eso llevo zapatos con plataforma. Para estar a la altura de mi alma.

I am important, though, she insisted to herself.

Have you tried this treatment for female baldness? I hear it's life-changing.

La autoestima es fundamental en la conquista del éxito. Si no te gustas a ti mismo, ¿cómo pretendes gustar a los demás? De nada sirve cubrirse de oro o vestir ropas de calidad si la autoestima es baja. El problema es que nos han educado de una manera que nos pone difícil gustarnos a nosotros mismos. Nuestra estructura mental nos hace excesivamente críticos.

I was the worst, most sickly kid of all -- 30 pounds underweight. The girls used to beat me up. Actually I was a mean kid, early on because I had no self-esteem.

You look lousy,' he said. Jace blinked. 'Seems an odd time to start an insult contest, but if you insist, I could probably think up something good.' 'No I mean it. You don't look good.' 'This is from a guy ho has all the sex appeal of a penguin. Look, I realize you may be jealous that the good Lord didn't deal you the same chiseled hand he dealt me, but that's no reason to-' 'I am not trying to insult you.' Simon snapped.

Beautiful. He'd called her beautiful. Nobody had ever called her that before, except her mother, which didn't count. Mothers were required to think you were beautiful.

Goodness, my nose is enormous,' she exclaimed. 'Why didn't anyone tell me?

Dear me," said Will, and he took another bite of his apple. "Is it because I'm better-looking than you?

If Jace was gold, catching the light and the attention, Alec was silver: so used to everyone else looking at Jace that that was where he looked too, so used to living in Jace's shadow that he didn't expect to be seen. Maybe it was enough to be the first person to tell Alec that he was worth being seen ahead of anyone in a room, and of being looked at longest. And silver, though few people knew it, was a rarer metal than gold.

I think I'm better than everyone else. An opinion that has been backed up with ample evidence.

Those girls on the other side of the car are staring at you." "Of course they are," he said. "I am stunningly attractive.

Despite my staggering good looks, you actually don't like me that way..." (Jace)

At least," she said, "you don't have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland." "Not necissarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting.

To be beautiful you had to be willowy and tall. When you were as short as Clary was, just over five feet, you were cute. Not pretty or beautiful, but cute.

As long as you smile, have sparkly eyes and stick your shoulders back, nobody's going to notice your bum or your waist or your feet, for that matter.