Quotes About Self-esteem

Earlier, watching her apply mascara with ritual concentration, he'd wondered just how beautiful a woman had to be before she believed it.

Never feel bad for being assertive, speaking your mind, and putting your foot down. What you think is anger, others see as a good solid display of self-esteem.

In this culture, where energy and egotism are rewarded in the young and good-looking, plain aging women are supposed to be self-effacing, uncomplaining--to take up as little space and breathe as little air as possible.

The truth is that we are not good people who make mistakes; we are sinful people in need of mercy. Because it requires humility to accept what our hearts are truly like, those same hearts will tend to prefer to be deceived by preachers of self-esteem and self-confidence rather than listen to prophets such as Jeremiah.

I felt like Barbie's less-than-perfect friend.

and when you're the girl known for being invisible, there's nothing quite as scary as being seen. - Cross My Heart And Hope To Spy

I've spent my whole life tailing after people who think they're more interesting than me

Parents need to fill a child's bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can't poke enough holes in it to drain it dry.

Parents need to fill a child's bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can't oke enough holes to drain it dry.

Por qué te escondes tras esos vaqueros holgados y esas sudaderas con capucha? ¿No sabes lo hermosa que eres? - Damen Auguste

But I want you to know that you're a beautiful girl, far more beautiful than I ever was at your age, and that starving yourself to compete with all of those skinny celebrities who spend half their lives checking in and out of rehab is not only a completely unreasonable and unattainable goal, but will only end up making you sick.

Appearances are really just manifestations of how we see ourselves. And so, with that in mind, the way you see yourself, well, it has a direct effect on what you become, and how others see you.

But there are worse things than people you don't care about not liking you.

Rien de tel que la médiocrité pour penser du bien de soi

Nada mejor que ser mediocre para pensar bien de uno mismo.

Non dire troppo male di te stesso, finiranno per crederci. [Citando Andrè Maurois]

Cuéntame cosas de las japonesas. (...) -Tú estás aquí, me estás mirando. Ellas, en cambio, siempre están preguntando si gustan. Solo piensan en sí mismas. (...) A mis amigos y a mí, nos parece que para esas chicas solo somos espejos.

Being praised constantly weakens you.

If you're the greatest, it's okay to say you're the greatest. My suggestion to everybody is to be their own greatest fan. Weaker personas and personalities define that as egotistical or arrogant, but what it means is their self-esteem isn't that strong.

Kids will pick up on weakness, and I was very shy growing up. I was skinny and flat-chested; I didn't have the latest clothes. For me, it was about being left out and not having any friends and being laughed at. I was very lonely, but that happens to so many people.

Growing up, I'd always been told that my biggest weakness was my body and how that was probably going to hold me back from accomplishing my dreams.

I wish everybody in the world liked me, but a lot of them don't. That's because my whatever - my weakness, my vulnerability, my ego, whatever it is.

I never have been insecure, because I see what a waste it is. I know there is a solution to insecurity. I don't tend to be thrown by problems that don't have solutions. And insecurity has a wealth of alternatives.

Criticising is a weapon of the weak.