Quotes About Self-esteem

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

Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves.

Neither will I make myself anybody's laughingstock.

it seems clear that if you are an extrovert, have strong self-esteem, and look at the world with optimism, you will have a better chance of becoming successful and leading a satisfying life.

When idleness is forced on someone without a handsome income, it just produces a severe drop in self-esteem, and general listlessness. As John Hay-worth, a psychologist at the University of Manchester, has shown, young men out of work, even when paid relatively generous unemployment compensation, have a very hard time finding satisfaction in their lives.

It is not the skills we actually have that determine how we feel but the ones we think we have.

Listen, if people don't like you, it's not always your fault. My brother told me that.

Listen, if people don't like you, it's not always your fault.

And Mary preserve our mistresses from seeing us as we see ourselves.

I will leave you with one last piece of advice, which is: If you've got it, flaunt it. And if you don't got it? Flaunt it. 'Cause what are we even doing here if we're not flaunting it?

Confidence is just entitlement. Entitlement has gotten a bad rap because it's used almost exclusively for the useless children of the rich, reality TV stars, and Conrad Hilton Jr., who gets kicked off an airplane for smoking pot in the lavatory and calling people peasants or whatever. But entitlement in and of itself isn't so bad. Entitlement is simply the belief that you deserve something. Which is great. The hard part is, you'd better make sure you deserve it.

I kind of killed it in college. You know that saying "big fish in a small pond"? At Dartmouth college, I was freakin' Jaws in a community swimming pool.

Also, chubby people can never truly pull off ethereal the same way skinny people can never be jolly.

I'm getting made fun of because I used to be fat? The laws of bullying allow you to be cruel even when the victim had made strides for improvement? This is when I realized that bullies have no code of conduct.

If you look closely, you can see this woman's ribs through the dress she's wearing— that's how skinny she is, this cheesecake-loving cow.

Because confidence is like respect; you have to earn it. (P.220)

Being called fat is not like being called stupid or unfunny, which is the worst thing you could ever say to me.

When Your Boyfriend Fits into Your Jeans and Other Atrocities

I've found that a well-fitting padded bra can transform me from a pear-shaped woman to an hourglass-shaped woman. Okay, maybe not hourglass-shaped, but definitely, say, an egg-timer-shaped woman.

They gave you that trophy so you wouldn't feel bad, not because you deserved it. You should know the difference.

If you've got it, flaunt it. And if you don't got it? Flaunt it. 'Cause what are we even doing here if we're not flaunting it?

I get worried that telling girls how difficult it is to be confident implies a tacit expectations that girls won't be able to do it.

I think widespread, online displays of female self-confidence are good for people, especially men, to see.

Lots of stupid people were skinny, and yet I couldn't do this incredibly simple thing they could do with seeming ease.