Quotes About Self-esteem

Assertiveness is the positive form of aggressiveness.

Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman.

The fact that you don't have any money is a result of all your other problems. You have thinking problems. Attitude problems. Self-esteem problems. You are lazy. You lack discipline. You lack goals. Your priorities are out of whack. Your biggest problem is not in your wallet or your bank account. Your biggest problem is between your ears. You will fix your money problems when you fix your other problems.

you say I'm worthless yet you waste your time on me. you say I can't do anything right but you still waste your breath on me. you tell me I'm stupid yet you still try to teach me. you tell me to live my life yet you give me no life to live?

Hold your head up! Throw you shoulders back! It's the cheapest way to tell the world you're somebody!

Men come and go. The only thing a woman has that no one can take away is her opinion of herself.

Am I ever happy," he wrote to Louie. "I have to go around with my shirt open so that I have enough room for my chest." Louie

Without dignity, identity is erased.

A woman could be as beautiful as she felt herself to be.

Sizeism = like racism, only against people who aren't a size two or four.

She knows that it's not my fault if I don't know how many Zs there are in LOSER.

I don't think I've ever been called beautiful by a boy in my life. It's definitely not an English-guy thing; in London, we pride ourselves on our irony and sarcasm. You're lucky if you even get a backhanded compliment from a boy. "Your hair doesn't look terrible today"--that kind of thing.

Oh, Addie," she said. "Were you punishing yourself, sweetie?" "Oh my god," I said. "That is so not the right thing to say to someone about her new haircut!

Always remember, you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.

I have always believed that fashion was not made only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.

You know when you see a gorgeous boy on the street and you say to your friend, "Look at him!" and then your friend makes a face like, ugly? We all have such totally varied tastes that someone is going to look at you and think, yum-yum dee-lish, no matter what you think you look like. You just have to learn to see what they see.

Most people were raised to believe they are just as good as the next person. I was always told I was better.

Sometimes you almost forgot: that you didn't look like everyone else.

Even the younger Richardsons had it, this sureness in themselves.

I was not a good-lookin' girl. I was extremely skinny. I wasn't pretty. I wasn't cool.

In short, the first step leads to low self-esteem, learned helplessness, personal irresponsibility, and binge drinking. The first step is a step toward disaster; it has no redeeming features.

He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.

When he has nothing else to do, he can always contemplate his own greatness. It is a considerable advantage to a man, to have so inexhaustible a subject.