Quotes About Self-esteem

I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.

It's pathetic. It's a bottomless pit. A barrel that has no floor. He must be a man who has an ever-crumbling estimation of himself. He's constantly filling himself up.

I am an unconventional beauty. I grew up in a high school where if you didn't have a nose job and money and if you weren't thin, you weren't cool, popular, beautiful. I was always told that I wasn't pretty enough to be on television.

They had no confidence in themselves and even less in their own kind.

But we can also ask for something we are much more likely to get, and that is to find a person or two, somewhere in our travels, who will tell us that we are noble enough, whether it is true or not. We can ask for someone who will say, "You are noble enough," and remind us of our good qualities when we have forgotten them, or cast them into doubt.

In the vast majority of cases, however, getting into trouble has nothing to do with one's self-esteem. It usually has much more to do with whatever is causing the trouble - a monster, a bus driver, a banana peel, killer bees, the school principal - than what you think of yourself.

In the vast majority of cases, however, getting into trouble has nothing to do with one's self-esteem. It usually has much more to do with whatever is causing the trouble—a monster, a bus driver, a banana peel, killer bees, the school principal—than what you think of yourself.

knew that they weren't ugly, because they could

I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.

Value yourself. The only people who appreciate a doormat are people with dirty shoes.

You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.

why was I born with a different face, Why was I not born like the rest of my race? When I look each one starts! when I speak I offend Then I'm silent and passive and lose every friend.

We cannot achieve more in life than what we believe in our heart of hearts we deserve to have.

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at.

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before; and, generally speaking, if there has been neither ill health nor anxiety, it is a time of life at which scarcely any charm is lost.

Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manner were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy

Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other.

El orgullo está relacionado con la opinión que tenemos de nosotros mismos; la vanidad, con lo que quisiéramos que los demás pensaran de nosotros.

Bir insan kibirli olmadan da gururlu olabilir. Gurur insan?n kendisiyle ilgili, kibirse baÅŸkalar?n?n bizimle ilgili görüÅŸleriyle alakal?d?r. Sayfa:31

orgullo está relacionado con la opinión que tenemos de nosotros mismos; la vanidad, con lo que quisiéramos que los demás pensaran de nosotros.

Sí; la vanidad es, en efecto, una debilidad. Pero en cuanto al orgullo, donde se dé verdadera superioridad de espíritu, estará siempre justificado.

there are very few of us that do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before;