Quotes About Self-esteem

Unless 'Wii Fit' stops acting like a mean girl, it's over between us forever.

I'm no sexual siren. I see prettier girls than me in the grocery store every day.

I'm a giant person. I can't go and buy women's shoes in a shoe store. I don't even go in the shoe section because it just breaks my heart because the shoes are so beautiful, but they don't fit me.

I've learnt that over the years, sometimes I was caring so much about how other people felt, I wasn't standing up for myself and I wasn't caring about how I felt even when people were straight up bullying me online.

I counted down the days until I turned 16 when I'd be allowed to straighten my 'crazy, frizzy hair,' as the other girls had called it.

I feel weird without lipstick. Even after the first time I wore a really neon pink or a really bright red, I felt really strange without it there. My lips are a main feature, so I feel naked without them.

I'm no stranger to weight issues. I've had cellulite since I was about nine years old. I have enjoyed the uber support of Spanx many times.

It's one thing for your mum to tell you that you look OK, but she's your mum and she has to tell you you're beautiful. It's not the same as a stranger telling you.

Most people don't walk around knowing what other people think about them, and I don't think it's healthy to know what faceless strangers who you'll never meet say about you.

I would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don't like me, I will obsess over it - and try to change my personality until they like me - even if they don't like me for reasons that have nothing to do with me, and even if they're strangers.

I have not come to having a healthy ego through being complimented by Internet strangers, I was born that way.

When despair brings home the bacon and self-esteem with it, it's hard to let it go. 'When you are suffering enough,' I suggested, 'I mean so much that it's simply impossible to go on, then something will give and the stories will change, like it or not.

you can't keep improving if you fear others will disapprove of what you're doing.

We're all flawed. Confident people don't hide their flaws; they laugh at them, because they don't care what you think. Those flaws work for them. They don't have to work for you.

Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.

Don't overestimate the world and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.

Maybe you've allowed your negative voices to undermine your self-esteem, to hinder your work, or to keep you locked in unhealthy relationships. If so it's time to tell those voices you've heard their propaganda, and you're not going to take it anymore. Dismiss them, and you will be the only one holding the pen as you write the story of your life." from Happiness Becomes You

Eating disorders can have serious medical and psychological consequences which, left unchecked, can kill. Parents should address this issue and ask their children to discuss how they feel about themselves.

False shame only is harmful

Ti vedo bene, comunque!, - dice lei dopo una breve risata. - Perché, hai messi le lenti a contatto?

The reason we get angry when someone makes fun of you is cause you doubt your ability.

The reason we get angry when someone makes fun of you is cause you doubt your ability to do something

It is the feeling of inferiority, inadequacy and insecurity that determines the goal of an individual's existence.

Burns notes the catch-22 nature of depression: The worse we feel, the more distorted our thoughts become, and this thinking plunges us even lower into black feelings about ourselves. Nearly