Quotes About Self-esteem

Anybody who tells you they don't care about being liked is lying.

I don't gotta walk around like Mr. Macho Man.

I'm not mad when people talk bad about me; that's the way it is.

I never saw anyone my size in magazines when I was younger.

It just kills me when these girls look at magazines and wish they could look like that. I try to tell them, 'Nobody looks like that. Everything's airbrushed.'

Like every girl, I felt amazing pressure to look like the popular girls, but no one told me the popular girls were all air brushed in magazines.

The thing about my dancing is, I actually think I'm magnificent.

Growing up, the main thing I was ashamed of was my voice. It is very effeminate.

I think the main thing for kids is to have them believe in themselves.

So much of the mainstream media has taught us what beauty is, but everyone is beautiful.

Maybe it's my age, but I know I look good, so I'm not going to look like another person suddenly because I don't have makeup on - same hair, same person.

I feel beautiful when my makeup looks great.

I've had alopecia since I was 3, so quite a few years. I grew up with it, and it was always very manageable.

I was pretty as a child and I felt that I wasn't very manly and that plagued me for years.

and the boys made fun of her skinny legs that were always bruised and cut from her tomboyish antics at the ranch. There was one special boy, Jake Weldon. Maggie pretended not to notice him. He was one of the boys who made fun of her, and it hurt really

Her hair was a dirty color that was too dark to be blond, her chin was big and her eyes were small.

you have to trust a TRUE compliment as muc as a critique.

The point of this is not merely to teach ethnic pride or self-esteem. Nor is it, as usually advertised, a campaign to defeat "hate." Rather, it is to teach Hispanics—along with blacks, Native Americans and Asian Americans—to each affirm their ethnic identity and, even more, to define it in resistance to a white identity or even a unified American identity.

Vanity is a defensive quality. it contains an element of fear.

Bemoan technology all you want. It expands your self-esteem and connects you in your well-pressed suit to the things that slip through the world otherwise unperceived.

There are many ways that we hurt ourselves when we don't like who we are.

I DON'T KNOW WHY IT IS, EXACTLY, BUT THE PEOPLE with the healthiest self-esteem are also the greatest at intimacy. I'm not talking about arrogant people. I'm talking about people who know they are both good and bad yet believe at the deepest level they are really good for people. It's a beautiful moment when somebody wakes up to this reality, when they realize God created them so other people could enjoy them, not just endure them.

I don't know why it is, exactly, but the people with the healthiest self-esteem, are also the greatest at intimacy. I'm not talking about arrogant people. I'm talking about people who know they are both good and bad yet believe at the deepest level they are really good for people.

In addition to an education, kids were supposed to graduate with some basic values, self-discipline, and life skills. A little common sense wouldn't hurt either. Our schools don't teach that anymore. instead we're more concerned about kids having self-esteem and feeling good about themselves than we are about preparing them for real life. The politically correct crowd has taken over our schools, and as a result we are failing our children.