Quotes About Self-esteem

When your self-image is adequate and one that you can be wholesomely proud of, you feel self-confident. You feel free to "be yourself" and to express yourself. You function at your optimum.

Fashion helps people...Fashion...makes us better people. The right clothes can make you feel great. They can transform you...

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size But when I start to tell them, They think I'm telling lies. I say, It's in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.

If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?

You can be the smartest, most beautiful woman in the world," Nyela said, "but if you can't control your weight, you won't be happy.

You're not a one hundred dollar bill, not everyone is going to like you.

And the child who was happy with herself meant the parents had won the jackpot.

here I was: shouting compliments about Joe through the mayonnaise-colored living room of my childhood and hoping I would start to believe them.

Don't take this personally, Kit, but your hands are really big. Did you hassle steer?" "No steer," I say. "Only small-handed men.

You know what they say. Best revenge is looking good, right?

We are often our own harshest critics

But confidence bred confidence, that's what her dad had always told her back in the days when she'd been a skinny, flat-chested nerd girl with a boy-intimidating vocabulary and no hope of being asked to the prom.

Brandi is mean skinny, that kind that doesn't come naturally and makes her face look all hallow and scary.

People like myself, are self-conscious about their appearance.

Land?' Froi whispered. 'You're giving them land? I'm not worth the valley.' 'You're worth a kingdom,' Finnikin said, turning back to the crowd.

Oh, you're one of those,' the princess said. 'One of what?' 'One of those who needs to be told their worth over and over by others. Do you know who tells me my worth, Phaedra of Alonso?' The princess pointed a hard finger at her own chest. 'Me. I determine my own worth. If I had to rely on others I'd have lain down and died waiting.

When a woman has not received much flattery in her life, she will be seduced.

Do you think I look like Sophia Loren?' I ask him as we get into the car. 'I used to tell your mother she looked like Sophia Loren.' He looks at me, frowning, and then it registers. 'Oh God, some guy's using that line on you, isn't he?' 'Not just "some guy",' I tell him. 'The guy.

Everywhere you go, you see women more beautiful than yourself. You imagine him being attracted to them. You're drinking gasoline to stay warm.

He gazed at me. "You've grown up honey." It felt good to hear it. I thought maybe he was right. Then it occurred to me that if I really had grown up I wouldn't want to be told.

We Are Lovable Even if the most important person in your world rejects you, you are still real, and you are still okay.

To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to be walked on. --Shin'a'in saying

A pervasive sense of shame is the ongoing premise that one is fundamentally bad, inadequate, defective, unworthy, or not fully valid as a human being.

We are all persons courtesy of someone else, and since we need others to perceive us in order to experience ourselves, it is very hard to like yourself when those nearest you seem to doubt your worth. And when those around you don't see you as you want to see yourself, it is only too easy to lose the way and start auditioning instead for them.