Quotes About Self-esteem

When you give another person the power to define you, then you also give them the power to control you. Here's

A proud heart may suffer from an inferiority complex or low self-esteem, even though these problems may seem incompatible with a heart ruled by pride. However, the insecure-yet-proud don't feel inferior due to moral failures or spiritual inadequacies, but rather because they don't measure up to the things they crave or believe are essential for their well-being.

I never read bad reviews about myself, because my friends invariably tell me about them.

Funny that a pair of really nice shoes make us feel good in our heads — at the extreme opposite end of our bodies.

I've always felt a strong urge to prove myself.

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

I used to think I was ugly because I was the baby.

I was a fat little kid with a speech impediment. I used to get beat up, not just picked on.

I have a big forehead, and I got made fun of all time. When I was a little girl, they used to call me 'five-head.'

I used to be a conscious person in terms of dressing, and I wasn't comfortable with my body, so I wouldn't dress in a certain way. Now I am comfortable, and nothing bothers me. Once you are comfortable, everything starts looking good.

My aunt used to call me light bulb head because my head is small at the bottom and bigger at the top. But it was a term of endearment.

A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society.

In the romantic sense, I'm pretty useless with guys. If I see somebody who I'm attracted to, generally I just think, 'Oh well, he's not interested in me.' The only time that I talk to guys is when they talk to me first.

I didn't really have a favourite subject at school as I was useless at everything.

Ever since I started using guys, I feel so much better about myself. I feel so much more powerful.

You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.

I grew up in Senegal, where more than 50 percent of the women bleach their skin, and skin bleaching is a huge deal. I grew up seeing my cousins and my aunts using it.

On two occasions, utility executives I'd never met had looked at me and said, 'I thought you'd be bigger!' In a way, I took that as a compliment!

My family believed I could do no wrong. That's probably why I have utter confidence in myself even when I shouldn't have.

Instagram is an app, it is not a realistic representation of anyone's life - do not base your idea of what your body, hair, face, vacation, relationship or meal should be like according to what you see on it.

I don't think anyone gets bored of being called good-looking. We are all vain in one way or another.

I'm not vain, I'm insecure.

I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.

I don't get self-conscious. I'm not vain in that way.