Quotes About Self-esteem

When I was overweight, people called me cute.

When I was growing up, because I was a bit overweight and boyish, I thought I wasn't attractive to the opposite sex, but I have since met lads from my school who said I just seemed unapproachable.

When you're overweight like I've been my whole life, you've been made fun of. And, uh, it's not good growing up.

Tiberius was badly prone to spots. Tall, muscular and well proportioned, with piercing eyes that could supposedly see in the dark, and sporting the mullet that had long marked the Claudians as tonsorial trendsetters, he was by any reckoning handsome – except for the pimples. They would suddenly erupt all over his cheeks in a violent rash. Good-looking though he was, he never could stop the acne.

Have you ever used Diet Shampoo before? It's for people with Fat Heads.

Women are taught that size doesn't matter, that it's the motion in the ocean. But this is a theory propagated by those bright guys with insecurities who need big theories.

Looking good is the best revenge.

But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives.

My classmates find me unceasingly, overwhelmingly comical, and I've gotten used to the clown role and even find a sad comfort in it, because together with my confirmed stupidity, it protects me against their peculiar meanness toward anyone who is different.

You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.

You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.

We all have scars. Some are visible and others aren't, but they are there all the same. Your scar makes you no less worthy.

BARBARA: God, Deon, you look really good. You really . . . filled out. Nicely, I mean. You just look great. SHERIFF GILBEAU: Thanks. BARBARA: How 'bout me, don't I look good? SHERIFF GILBEAU: Yes, sorry, yes. You look great, too, just great.

You are the smartest children i know. You just don't beleive it.

Everyday I receive a lesson that teaches me that I can't let what others think of me define me.

Motherfucker. She leaves me no choice. Now I have to break her self-esteem, sleep with her and steal the shirt.

When he resurfaced, she was floating beside him, ducking her head and splashing water over her scales like a beautiful overgrown fish. Clay felt like a gawky brown blob next to her.

No one had made fun of his odd talons in years, not since his first month in the wingery.

Much energy goes into looking good and shoring up any holes that may appear in that image. This is where the pain starts, in the tremendous distance between idealistic expectations and actual performance.

Nothing, as Milton observes, profits a man like proper self-esteem:

When you accept delivery on truckloads of disrespectful treatment, you are teaching immature people that they can continue to misuse you.

When I was laughing I couldn't tell if I was pretty or not, but I looked happy.

You will be loved and respected only if you love and respect yourself.

Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride because it was the most destructive way of being different.