Quotes About Self-esteem

My mom doesn't know what it's like to be less than perfect, how people zoom in on that until it's all they see. Maybe because it weirds them out...or maybe because it makes them feel better about themselves. People do pretty ugly things to make themselves feel better, this I do know.

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.

He liked to think of himself as fighting trim. At this point though, he was more like pacifist fat. Or at least he felt that way, stuffed to the gills.

Comparschläger: noun; a self-inflicted poison. Activates when you compare yourself to others and end up feeling worthless. Analogous to Goldschläger, the disgusting cinnamon-flavored schnapps with gold flakes that, when ingested in large quantities, makes you puke.

To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel is no doubts about oneself is something very different it is character.

We're always bombarded with images from magazines of what looks cool and sexy.

Criticism of one's appearance hurts, no matter what.

Fear is a fickle friend who will loyally stand by your side as long as you allow it to diminish you.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain whether of our worth or worthlessness we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage.

Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

The people in the popular group say there is no peer pressure because they are at the top of the food chain. Really what they are doing is just eating away at everybody else.

Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts.

When I was young and growing up overweight, I believed the "eaten" was more powerful than the "eater," meaning the food was more powerful than I was.

The clearer the rules and the limits enforced by parents, the higher the child's self-esteem. The more freedom the child had, the lower his self-esteem.

As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery.

Real freedom isn't subject to how others estimate our value; it is in realizing that none are free who find their sense of worth wondering how others measure their lives.

Having my freedom, boast of nothing else.

It's not your job to like me - it's mine

I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.

No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.

No man is much pleased with a companion who does not increase in some respect his fondness of himself.

At sixteen, I was a funny, skinny little thing, all eyelashes and legs. And then, suddenly people told me it was gorgeous. I thought they had gone mad.