Quotes About Self-esteem

I'm not trying to be a middle aged centerfold, I just want to look at myself naked and not be disgusted.

What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.

He wanted to teach the children that all bodies are beautiful.

He wanted to teach the children that all bodies are beautiful. Among the pupils at Tomoe were some who had polio, like Yasuaki-chan, or were very small, or otherwise handicapped, and he felt if they bared their bodies and played together it would rid them feelings of shame and help to prevent them from developing an inferiority complex. As it turned out, while the handicapped children were shy at first, get soon began to enjoy themselves, and finally they got over their shyness completely.

Besides that, he thought it was essential for them to learn how to get up in front of people & express their ideas clearly & freely without being embarrassed, so he decided to put his theory into practice.

If you are going to stop the world you must claim your power, but no man can claim his power if he feels unworthy of it.

Chasing perfection is like chasing the fountain of youth—it's a fool's mission. Immediately divorce your self-esteem from perfectionism.

Self-esteem is a concept that belongs to the psychology of the Real Me. The Real Me, of course, is someone who is inherently good and admirable: Man being by nature good, inside every bad man there's a good one trying to get out, obstructed, alas, by such phenomena as low self-esteem.

Flattery may be considered as a mode of companionship, degrading but profitable to him who flatters.

If you don't feel you have any choice in a situation, self-esteem and confidence plummet. But once you understand that you do have a choice, self-esteem will improve. You aren't a helpless victim anymore. You decide how you deal with a situation. You aren't just reacting to life; you're creating your life.

The chances are that if you begin taking care of your body with the right diet and regular exercise you will start to respect and like your body more.

STOP COMPARING YOURSELF WITH OTHERS

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

Tell a man that he is brave, and you help him become so.

There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.

I wouldn't necessarily say I'm arrogant. I'm just confident.

I have to look at myself in the mirror and tell myself that I'm beautiful, even if I don't necessarily believe it.

If you're a kid who's not necessarily attractive, and you don't have money, and you're not hip and cool, chances are you're not going to feel good about yourself and want to be an actor.

Confidence is one of those things that no one ever wants to talk about in this industry because confidence and ego run neck and neck. But you have to understand, those are things that you have to have in order to make it to where Edge has made it. You've got to have a certain amount of ego and confidence in yourself to get there.

The excess skin, especially in my neck, was driving me crazy.

With all strikers, it's just about needing a bit of confidence.

I've learned to ignore the negative people and just be a living example of confidence and self-love.

I was 'Little Ty,' 'Little Tyrone.' I always got this negative feedback from the game of basketball.

Can I go one day without somebody saying something negative about me?