Quotes About Self-esteem

People who lack confidence rarely win anything . - John Puller

Your feelings do not determine your worth, simply your relative state of comfort or discomfort.

For example, if you feel sad or depressed, you're probably telling yourself that you've lost someone you love or something important to your sense of self-esteem. If you feel guilty or ashamed, you're telling yourself that you're bad or that you've violated your own personal values. If

you cannot earn worth through what you do. Achievements can bring you satisfaction but not happiness. Self-worth based on accomplishments is a "pseudo-esteem

It did not eliminate the tumor, but it did restore her missing self-esteem, and that made all the difference in the way she felt.

If the comments are wrong, there is really nothing for you to be upset about. On the other hand, if the criticism is accurate, there is still no reason for you to feel overwhelmed. You're not expected to be perfect.

Your orbit is certainly big and fancy in comparison with mine. But I don't understand how that makes you a better person than I am, or how it follows that I'm inferior to you.

Discounting the Positive. This is an even more spectacular mental error. You tell yourself that your positive qualities or successes don't count. You convince yourself that you're completely bad, inferior, or worthless.

If you can answer yes, then you are clearly motivated to change. You will probably succeed in gaining greater inner peace and self-esteem, and you will increase your effectiveness in life. This

In one sense, depression can feel even worse than cancer, because most cancer patients feel hope as well as self-esteem.

For example, in answer to "I never do anything right," you could write, "Forget that! I do some things right and some wrong, just like everyone else. I fouled up on my appointment, but let's not blow this up out of proportion.

now ready for the trash. Your lack of self-esteem might even culminate in a suicide attempt, the ultimate payment for measuring your worth exclusively by the standards of the marketplace. Do you

Don't wrench your shoulder out of its socket trying to pat yourself on the back, Beldin said sourly.

As he grew, the other children grew as well—all except poor Doroon, who seemed doomed to be short and skinny all his life. Rundorig

It is a fact of life that certain people are corrosive to others' self esteem simply as a function of who and what they are. The

try looking in the mirror and determining where you stand in the attractiveness-hierarchy with anything like the objective ease you can determine whether just about anyone else you know is good-looking or not—but

Worship your intellect, being seing as smart - you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge og being found out. And so on.

Quieres lograr lo que estimas ornamento de la vida y en tu propia estimación vivir como un cobarde, poniendo el no me atrevo al servicio del quiero como el gato del refrán? MACBETH: ¡Ya basta! Me atrevo a todo lo que sea digno de un hombre, quien se atreva a más, no lo es.

I felt loss at every hand. The loss of self-esteem is a celebrated symptom, and my own sense of self had all but disappeared, along with any self-reliance. This loss can quickly degenerate into dependence, and from dependence into infantile dread. One dreads the loss of all things, all people close and dear. There is an acute fear of abandonment.

If you talked to your friends the way you talk to yourself, you wouldn't have any.

A modest little person, with much to be modest about.

When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks. When you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks. When you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place.

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.

El orgullo es como un caramelo que se acaba pronto.