Quotes About Self-esteem

They had a confidence that we lacked. And much better hair. So many colors. And we regretted that we could not be more like them.

I liked my feet and my legs and I liked how I walked into a room, expecting to find people who would be glad to see me.

When people are consistently treated with the utmost respect, they learn to feel worthy of reverence; they realize that they have absolute value. So

You've got what it takes, Billie Jo. Look at the size of those hands, he'd say. Look at how tall.

If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride

Just because I'd spent the last five years of my life dealing with diapers and dirty dishes didn't mean my brain had turned into Gerber Oatmeal & Banana Cereal.

If there was one thing she excelled at, it was being her own inner mean girl.

It was a truth universally acknowledged that your mother was the only person in the world who could say, "Your hair looks nice," but what you heard was, "Your hair always looks awful except for this one, brief moment in time.

People didn't believe in you unless you convinced them that you believed in yourself.

The world stops for you when you're pretty. That's why women spend billions on crap for their faces. Their whole life, they're the center of attention. People want to be around them just because they're attractive.

was a truth universally acknowledged that your mother was the only person in the world who could say, "Your hair looks nice," but what you heard was, "Your hair always looks awful except for this one, brief moment in time.

The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man – state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world...

The best thing about me is probably my eyes, but then I suppose my eyes would think that, as it's them that are looking at them.

The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.

Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.

Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant.

No man is cheaper than he who accepted that he's cheap to continue his cheap action.

I was told that when you hit forty men stop looking at you. It's true, until you slip on a mini-skirt.

It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.

To men of a certain type The suspicion that they are incapable of loving Is as disturbing to their self-esteem As, in cruder men, the fear of impotence.

In order to deal with reality successfully - to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires - man needs self-esteem; he needs to be confident of his efficacy and worth.

The only way I can get a man to touch me at this age is plastic surgery.

The man who insists he as good as anybody, believes he is better.

A man's worth is what he is divided by what he thinks he is.