Quotes About Self-esteem

You can be chased home or hit or called names or spit on, and it's over. You have the memory of it, but it's very different from the emotional and psychological experience of feeling invisible, of not learning the confidence to stand up in class and speak.

Someone who is comfortable, someone who is happy, you see them immediately sit up, stand up and feel better about themselves. If you're able to capture that in a picture, that's the most beautiful picture you can ever take of someone.

See, 'Bad and Boujee' was really a ladies' record. It made all of them want to stand up a little more and feel a little better about themselves.

It's a very hard goal. But, what I want is to tell people who are getting bullied to stand up to the bully and not let it be OK - tell a teacher, the principal, or your parents. I want people to stand up and to be confident.

I was bullied a lot, being a kid, so I feel like I'm standing out because I realize who I really am.

The thing that drives me crazy is when comics say 'I have low self-esteem.' No you don't. You're standing on stage asking people to pay. You don't play an instrument. You want people to pay to hear what's in your mind. You don't have low self-esteem. You might have other problems.

I'm the guy that stands out in all the crowds, so I don't get out there and dance, but I can dance.

I've never gotten any complaints about my headscarf from a man. You can be sexy with a head wrap!

The tenderest spot in a man's make-up is sometimes the bald spot on top of his head.

To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.

There is no value-judgment more important to a man--no factor more decisive in his psychological development and motivation--than the estimate he passes on himself.

Vanity is a mortgage that must be deducted from the value of a man.

A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.

Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.

A man who for an entire week does nothing but hit himself over the head has little reason to be proud.

So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.

To be able to do this job in the first place you've got to have a bit of an ego.

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.

Some men think that if you're empowered and sure of yourself then you're a man-hater, but it's like, 'No, I'm just the same as you are, but maybe just a tiny bit more confident.'

I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.

When I was a kid I got no respect. When I went on the roller coaster, my old man told me to stand up straight.

Nothing has man invented yet that will do a better job than heels at making a good pair of legs look great, or great ones look fabulous.

No man is great if he thinks he is.

I will praise any man that will praise me.