Quotes About Self-esteem

Pride has often been his best friend. It has connected him nearer with virtue than any other feeling.

I always deserve the best treatment, because I never put up with any other;

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

El orgullo se refiere más a nuestra opinión sobre nosotros mismos; la arrogancia, a lo que deseamos que los demás piensen de nosotros.

If you are content to be simply yourself and do not compare or compete, everyone will respect you

A person may be proud without being vain. Pride related to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

A vaidade e o orgulho são coisas diferentes, embora as palavras sejam frequentemente usadas como sinónimos. Uma pessoa pode ser orgulhosa sem ser vaidosa. O orgulho relaciona-se mais com a opinião que temos de nós mesmos, e a vaidade, com o que desejaríamos que os outros pensassem de nós.

Alcohol made me beautiful in a way I never felt the rest of the time.

Now you'll just have to experience what the rest of the single sisterhood goes through every time we give out our number. We sit glued to our phones for days on end, hating mankind, and thinking that if only we were thinner, or fatter, or blonder, or darker, or louder, or more quiet, he'd phone.

It is hard to know whether an air of self-confidence precedes or follows success.

Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.

Snow Speaks to the Mirror My nose is smudged, my hair in tangles. I do not like myself at angles. Skin's not clear, eyes all red. Another hour in my bed would be a gift, would feel real nice. But can I trust your strange advice? Don't be daft. I won't be guided by a glass that's so one-sided.

Lula's borderline too much of a good thing in lots of ways. It isn't exactly that Lula is fat; it's more that she's too short for her weight and her clothes are too small for the volume of flesh she carries.

What's this outfit? You can't afford clothes? Are you wearing other peoples? Helen Plum

I don't know if it's a good idea to give a woman a box of bullets when she's got a pimple.

It's not a good idea to mess with a woman who has a pimple

All my adult life I've hidden behind mascara. And if I'm really insecure, I add eyeliner. (Stephanie, Chapter 10)

I'm short. I have to think tall.

I could be wrong here," Lula said, "but I think you're dumb as a box of rocks." "Sticks and stones," Cal said.

Men," she said. "No matter how unappealing, each of them imagines he is somehow worthy." I

They congratulated themselves and went back out to their sodas and Chex mix, leaving me in front of the mirror, a toddler's fussed-over Barbie abandoned in the sandbox. I blinked back my tears and forced myself to look in the mirror. Looking

Men," she said. "No matter how unappealing, each of them imagines he is somehow worthy.

I tried not to let all the criticism affect me, but it obviously does not go unnoticed.

I know I can be bolshy and really unpleasant, and it always happens if I lose confidence in the people I'm working with. If I've got no confidence in what I'm doing and they don't provide me with some assurance that we're doing the right thing then I bully people. I'm a horrible bully.