Quotes About Self-esteem

You can't be beautiful, Brandy says about a thousand times, until you feel beautiful.

The deal with dating conceited men like him was that she'd hoped some of his excess self-esteem would rub off. Women always secretly hoped this: that dating a narcissist would give them confidence by osmosis. It never worked.

I'm thirteen years old, and I'm somewhat overweight. Meaning: I'm dead and fat. Meaning: I'm a piggy-pig-pig, oink-oink, real porker. Just ask my mom. I'm thirteen and fat - and I will stay this way forever. And yes, I know the word ulcerate. I'm dead, not illiterate.

Posing girl, you are so Godawful ugly. Did you let an elephant sit on your face or what?

Man is the only animal that when you pat him on the head, his head swells up.

You are in love with yourself, aren't you?" He hmphed. "Someone has to be.

I had a system, too, though I was pretty sure I'd ever acknowledged it before, even to myself. My closet was arranged by size: Now, Not That Long Ago, Once Upon a Time, Never Again, and In Your Dreams. I didn't even have to check the tags to verify the humiliating range of ever-increasing numerals displayed on them. I wondered what size I'd be when I'd finally had enough.

When I have my interview with God, our conversation will focus on the individuals whose self-esteem I was able to strengthen, whose faith I was able to reinforce, and whose discomfort I was able to assuage—a doer of good, regardless of what assignment I had. These are the metrics that matter in measuring my life.

Self-esteem—the sense that "I'm not afraid to confront this problem and I think I can solve it"—doesn't come from abundant resources.

School is one of the things that children might hire to do the job. But the job is that children need to feel successful—every

must believe in our souls that we are somebody, that we are significant, that we are worthful, and we must walk the streets of life every day with this sense of dignity and this sense of somebody-ness.

This sense of dignity.

or at least recognizing that he carried himself differently than other colored boys his age and taking this for industry.

You give up on what you need to be doing because you forget that you're worth it. This is why most people aren't leading exemplary lives...You have to believe in yourself so much that you're willing to do what's uncomfortable, time-consuming, inconvenient, and on occasion seemingly impossible. When you don't believe in yourself this much, pretend.

The man, whose self-esteem had always depended on the respect of others, is emotionally destroyed.

Kennedy could see she enabled his behavior. She was a pleaser.

They are able who think they are able.

Quienes pueden, pueden porque piensan que pueden.

Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.

Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us.

She had made him think he could do anything. Nobody else took him seriously. But she made him believe that he could do whatever he wanted.

How much, let me note, depends upon trousers; the intelligent head is entirely handicapped by shabby trousers.

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

Zelfkennis is een groot goed, maar van zelfhaat is nog nooit iemand beter geworden.