Quotes About Self-esteem

I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.

The culturally normalized so-called beauty practices of hair straightening and skin bleaching are indicators of this intergenerational syndrome of identity trauma

Wendell turned to the chalkboard and wrote I AM A WORTHLESS FAT-BODY.

Boys must find ways to compete and see themselves as performing well. If they do not, if society does not provide them with these opportunities, they'll compete against society itself, abusing their community and themselves.

What other people think about me is not my business.

Charles Royster analyzes this pursuit of model-based heroism as: …a concern for… reputation in the word "honor. " The term referred not simply to. conscience or self-esteem, but also to pub- lic acknowledgement of(a) claim to respect. To have honor and to be honored were very close, if not the same.374

O mérito exerce, em simultâneo, a sua tirania em duas direções. Entre aqueles que acabam por chegar ao topo, induz um perfeccionismo debilitante e uma arrogância meritocrática que luta para ocultar uma auto-estima fragilidade. Entre aqueles que exclui, impõe um desmoralizaste, e mesmo humilhante, sentimento de fracasso.

No matter how beautiful women are, they're always worried that they aren't attractive enough. They need to be reassured. A few don't, but even they appreciate the attention.

The line between confidence and arrogance is very fine

he lied about his height to keep from having a body mass index that would label him as obese),

Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose if you belittle yourself, you are believed if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.

She holds her head as high as if she were beautiful, and holds her body as if she were strong.

I figured that kind of delightful explosion was reserved for fictional heroines with perfect complexions and no cellulite on their thighs.

Thinking, not for the first time, that life should come with a trapdoor. Just a little exit hatch you could disappear through when you´d utterly and completely mortified yourself. Or when you had spontaneous zit eruptions. "Good book?" he asked, taking it from her and reading the subtitle, "A Guide for Good Girls Who (Sometimes) Want to Be Bad," out loud. But life did not come with a trapdoor.

There's nothing wrong with wanting to be important. What's wrong is using other people to make yourself feel important" -Elsa

That's a lot of what the ghetto is, a reflection of poor self esteem

So learn how much you're worth to God. Revel in that information and then walk in it.

She smiled too high, that's what was wrong, and it made deep lines around her nose. We taught her how to bring her smile down and show her lower teeth.

Generally, I like to appear smart. I don't admit being stupid when there's any hope I'm not.

As soon as the adult serial killer's fragile ego and self-esteem are threatened by any form of rejection or pain, the original childhood agony is triggered and he feels the irresistible urge to act out this powerful fantasy, which is the only way he perceives to restore the psychological imbalance.

As soon as the adult serial killer's fragile ego and self-esteem are threatened by any form of rejection or pain, the original childhood agony is triggered and he feels the irresistible urge to act out this powerful fantasy, which is the only way

Forget about calories - everything makes thin people thinner, and fat people fatter.

Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence.

Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards.