Quotes About Self-esteem

Watching TV produces low levels of satisfaction because it doesn't challenge you. Instead, do something that raises your self-esteem. Tap into your 'signature strengths' - things you're good at or passionate about.

If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back.

I'm kind of shy, to be honest. If I go to the pool or something, I keep my shirt on unless I'm getting in the water.

Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.

You can wax on so much about your figure and your skin and your face and all of those really important, and I'm all about skin and keeping it healthy, but if you don't have confidence, none of it matters.

I think an eyebrow can change the way you feel. It changes everything about your confidence.

I think if you exercise, your state of mind - my state of mind - is usually more at ease, ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem.

I'm a big girl, but I have a delicate constitution emotionally. If I've been humiliated in some audition, I just cry all the way home and think, 'Oh my God, I suck.'

Perfectionism is really a challenge for me, and it causes me to be super-critical of myself in so many ways: about body image constantly; about parenting; about being a mother.

You're all beautiful in your own unique ways and there is no one in the world like you and that is what makes us special.

Build your self-esteem by recalling all the ways you have succeeded, and your brain will be filled with images of you making your achievements happen again and again. Give yourself permission to toot your own horn, and don't wait for anyone to praise you.

We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.

If you quit every time you face a new challenge, giving up can change how you view yourself. You may begin to think you're weak or that you're a failure because you can't seem to stick with things long enough to see positive results.

You know I'm weak on good looks.

Show me a highly successful person in any field that has gotten there having a weak ego. You have to believe in yourself, and you have to believe in what you're doing.

I like being the biggest on the pitch, I don't want to look at the other guys and think his arms are bigger than mine.

Sometimes self-esteem affects you on and off the pitch. Until you face your next game and you miss an easy chance, for example, then you feel not as great.

I think I have the right balance of believing in my own ability and having that confidence on the pitch: people watching you thinking, 'He knows he's a good player,' but without taking it to that level where it's, 'He's an arrogant so-and-so.'

The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.

Then I did Mystic Pizza, just to do something I wasn't fat in.

For several years I had no idea that I had become anorexic. And I'd be at places with people I cared about, but what I was thinking about was how much extra grease was on the pizza or the calories that I knew was in that shake.

I've been called pizza face and others said my skin was full of craters - it's just so horrible when people pin point something that you feel so badly about.

We all have hourglass figures; your sand just settles in different places.

Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces.