Quotes About Self-esteem

To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections.

Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head.

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

You are not even cute enough to be that egotistical...please stop.

Stretch marks make her self conscious, I kiss em when we're sexin.'

It doesnt matter if youre self-conscious, if you think youre ugly, if you think youre fat. Youre all beautiful.

Making self-deprecating jokes about your sex life is the fastest way to win a place in my heart.

Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in love, in sex, in parenting, in every important aspect of existence - and how high he or she is likely to rise. The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.

When people believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.

It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

Believe in Yourself and there will come a day when others will have no choice but to believe with you.

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily; and why older persons, especially if vain or important, cannot learn at all.

If you had a person in your life treating you the way you treat yourself, you would have gotten rid of them a long time ago...

You life changes when you focus on self-love, self-esteem, and self-confidence. Only your opinions of self matter. Respect yourself.

The best thing you can wear is self confidence.

The self-esteem obsessed culture has taught us to put ourselves on the throne of God.

I've never met someone with a really low self esteem who was obsessed with loving others.

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself.

To be rejected by someone doesn't mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn't mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person's opinion symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of God.

Avoid self-pity, or the pity and sympathy of others. Never allow others to make you feel inferior.

Don't compare yourself with anyone in this world. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.

Negative emotions, such as the feelings of hatred, meanness, low self-esteem and confidence, and pessimism, create an unpleasant person and a bleak destiny.

I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.