Quotes About Self-esteem

Check your lipstick before you come and talk to me.

Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.

The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.

Put your foot upon the neck of the fear of criticism by reaching a decision not to worry about what other people think, do, or say.

More often than not, the ideal breast is an invented breast. Decolletage, the tushy breast, is an artifact of clothing. Naked breasts don't dance cheek to cheek--they turn away from each other. Breasts vary in size and shape to an outlandish degree, but they can be whipped into an impressive conformity, and because we are human and we can't leave anything alone, we have whipped away.

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health, self-esteem, not its cause

Pride is the emotional reward of achievement. It is not a vice to be overcome but a virtue to be attained.

To attain "success" without attaining positive self-esteem is to be condemned to feeling like an imposter anxiously awaiting exposure.

If we do have realistic confidence ... if we feel secure within ourselves, we tend to experience the world as open to us and to respond appropriately to challenges and opportunities. Self-esteem empowers, energizes, motivates. It inspires us to achieve and allows us to take pleasure and pride in our achievements.

There is no value-judgment more important to a man--no factor more decisive in his psychological development and motivation--than the estimate he passes on himself.

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.

Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.

If my aim is to prove I am "enough," the project goes on to infinity—because the battle was already lost on the day I conceded the issue was debatable.

Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.

Self-esteem is not a luxury; it is a profound spiritual need.

It is humiliating to realize that when you drive yourself underground, when you fake who you are, often you do so for people you do not even like or respect.

It is a mistake to look at someone who is self assertive and say, "It's easy for her, she has good self-esteem." One of the ways you build self-esteem is by being self-assertive when it is not easy to do so. There are always times when self-assertiveness requires courage, no matter how high your self-esteem.

In addition, if a person makes the error of identifying self with his work (rather than with the internal virtues that make the work possible), if self-esteem is tied primarily to accomplishments, success, income, or being a good family provider, the danger is that economic circumstances beyond the individual's control may lead to the failure of the business or the loss of a job, flinging him into depression or acute demoralization.

The opposite of self-assertiveness is self-abnegation--abandoning or submerging your personal values, judgment, and interests. Some people tell themselves this is a virtue. It is a "virtue" that corrodes self-esteem.

When we have unconflicted self-esteem, joy is our motor, not fear. It is happiness that we wish to experience, not suffering that we wish to avoid. Our purpose is self-expression, not self-avoidance or self-justification. Our motive is not to "prove" our worth but to live our possibilities.

She delighted to hear words of admiration from a man's mouth, a delicious but never surprised delight, for she was sure something in her was worthy of admiration.

Lelaki tidak tahu nilai seorang perempuan. Perempuan itulah yang menentukan nilai dirinya. Semakin tinggi kau menaruh harga bagi dirimu semakin dia menyadari hargamu itu sebenarnya, dan dia akan bersiap untuk membayar dengan apa yang dimilikinya. Dan bila dia tidak memilikinya, dia akan mencuri dari orang lain untuk memberimu apa yang kau minta.

you are the one who confuses just doing the job with testing your worth, where one possible mistake would feel like the end of the world.