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Quotes About Self-esteem

Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect-- But tell me the truth.
~ Shel Silverstein
It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem -and in my esteem age is not estimable.
~ Anatole France
Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got.
~ Sophia Loren
Well I was bullied at school, called all kinds of different names. But one day I turned to my bullies and said - 'Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me', and it worked! From there on it was sticks and stones all the way.
~ Harry Hill
I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
I found there was only one way to look thin, hang out with fat people.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
A friend doesn't go on a diet because you are fat.
~ Erma Bombeck
Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward.
~ Marilyn vos Savant
When people call you photogenic, they're actually trying to tell you that you look uglier than your pics..
~ Ritu Ghatourey
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
~ Judy Garland
Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies. Black men love big butts.
~ Tyra Banks
I thought it would set us back 50 years if I didn't win that match. It would ruin the women's tour and affect all women's self esteem.
~ Billie Jean King
It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
~ Jane Austen
When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'
~ Anton Chekhov
To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.
~ Naomi Wolf
There are so many pressures that are put upon young women. Whatever we can do to alleviate that and help women feel beautiful about who we are inside, which is the only beauty there truly is, is so nice. Let's get down and dirty. Let's be a real girl.
~ Drew Barrymore
I've exercised with women so thin that buzzards followed them to their cars.
~ Erma Bombeck
There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.
~ Pablo Picasso
Loving someone is important, not losing your worth in the process is equally important.
~ Terry Mark
The wrong person won't think you're WORTH their love, loyalty or respect. So, they'll offer you something less. DON'T ACCEPT IT. Know your worth and move on.
~ Unknown
There would always be a guy in every girl's life, who, no matter how you see yourself, would make you believe that you too are beautiful.
~ Unknown
Spend quality time with your children to make them feel loved, wanted, worthy and build their self-esteem up so they go out into the world with confidence!
~ Unknown
It's funny how loving yourself is being full of yourself, and hating yourself is being attention seeking.
~ Unknown