Quotes About Self-esteem

Your attitude determines your altitude. It really is true that if you think you can, you can; and if you think you can't – you're right.

I didn't have to be perfect-hardly anyone was perfect. Why did I think I had to be perfect all the time?

Your opinion of yourself is the only thing that's ugly about you," I fired back. "Now, if you want to keep looking at yourself that way, you go right ahead. But do me a favor and keep them ridiculous comments to yourself.

People who have earned no pride in themselves, are content to be proud of their cities through other men.

Giovanni was easy to love. He was not afraid to love, was fun in so many ways. He liked himself, which is the secret of much in life!

Do not read beauty magazines. They only make you feel ugly.

You do best at what you enjoy doing most. It's how you feel about yourself that counts most.

It's none of my business what other people think of me.

You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself.

When you believe that you are not worthwhile in and of yourself, in the back of your mind you also begin to believe that life is not worthwhile in and of itself. It is only worthwhile insofar as it relates to your crusade. It is a kamikaze mission.

I developed a deep, abiding fear of jeans, which I still have. I hold my breath and shut my eyes when I pull on a pair in the dressing room, afraid they will now, as then, get stuck at my hips and there I will stand, absurd, staring at the excess of hips that should, if I were a good person, be "slim".

I cannot help but think that, had I lived in a culture where "thinness" was not regarded as a strange state of grace, I might have sought out another means of attaining that grace

What's your name?" "Cassawoof," she said with pride. "Nice name! I'm Simon.

For those who don't believe in themselves, hardwork is worthless." -Maito Gai (Naruto)

Don't sell yourself short; you are your best asset.

Self-worth takes you further than net worth.

Don't let anyone or anything make you feel you aren't enough.

Feeling you have no time doesn't mean you have no time. Feeling you are ugly doesn't mean you are ugly. Feeling anxious doesn't mean you need to be anxious. Feeling you haven't achieved enough doesn't mean you haven't achieved enough. Feeling you lack things doesn't make you less complete.

You don't need to exhaust yourself trying to find your own value. You are not an iPhone needing an upgrade. Your value is not a condition of productivity or exercise or body shape or something you lose via inactivity. Value is not a plate that needs to be continually spun. The value is there. It is intrinsic, innate. It is in the "being" not the "doing.

Wow. Really? You have yourself in quite high esteem there, Nora.' 'Shouldn't I? I mean, shouldn't everyone? What's wrong with self-esteem?

As Eleanor Roosevelt said, 'No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Travel makes one modest" said Gustave Flaubert. "You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world." Such a perspective can be liberating. Especially when you have an illness that may on one hand lower self-esteem but on the other intensifies the trivial.

A cat, I discovered, was very much like a dog. But smaller, and without the self-esteem issues.)

Never let a stranger's negative opinion of you become your own negative opinion of you.