Quotes About Self-esteem

Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward.

Esto me recuerda a las palabras de Eleanor Roosevelt que decía que nadie podía hacerte sentirte inferior sin tu consentimiento.

Naturalmente —replicó el director—, la experiencia me dice que al final los que triunfan son los que dan más valor a lo que ellos creen de sí mismos que a lo que otros creen de ellos.

Cuando me siento cursi, me desprecio un poquito, y eso es malísimo. Porque nunca es bueno despreciarse, a menos que existan razones fundamentadas, que no es mi caso.

Her feet hurt, for Lady Clarendon had bought her daughter shoes too small for her in an attempt to make her large feet look smaller.

In online dating, I wonder if I have a nice enough face to get my foot in the door, but when they see my stomach and my thighs they'll be disappointed. Including a full-body shot feels like selling an old couch online and having to include all the scrapes and tiny stains.

I have never been beautiful, not even when I was young, when most people have some brief flowering. I never had such a flowering. I was always dull and plain. I remain dull and plain.

I finally understood what my grandmother meant. If I wasn't comfortable with myself, I would never be comfortable.

We take the piss out of someone else because it makes us feel better about the stuff that's screwing us up.

This lack of support is not simply an absence of encouragement. It can be as deep as the outright denial of some particular way in which we want to express ourselves.

When people have mentors like this, they grow up feeling safe and confident. As a result, they develop a strong core.

Something I know about seemingly confident people, and especially people who work in large companies, is that often they're more afraid of making a mistake than they are of wanting to do something right. (That's especially true for managers or CEOs in their mid-forties, and even truer if they're men.) That's because they're afraid of being pounced on if things go badly and afraid of the hit their self-esteem will take if they screw up.

The quickest way to improve the self-esteem of everyone in America would be to hire professional photographers to work at the Department of Motor Vehicles.

I've never met a writer who hasn't been filled with self-doubt

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that

If everybody was satisfied with himself there would be no heroes.

There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

Appearance is the consequence of fitness, and confidence is a consequence of capability.

I live near a remedial school. There is a sign that says, slow... children. That can't be good for their self esteem. But look of course on the positive side, they can't read it.

One thing's for sure: now when I look at Funny Girl, I think I was gorgeous. I was too beautiful to play Fanny Brice.

I want to thank my parents for somehow raising me to have confidence that is disproportionate with my looks and abilities.

It was because a great-looking man with no apparent mental defects found her attractive. Imagine feeling so buoyant over something so juvenile.