Quotes About Self-esteem

Confidence is important, but if it is not based on a realistic appraisal of who you are, it is mere grandiosity and smugness.

Self-esteem is critical in seduction. (Your attitude toward yourself is read by the other person in subtle and unconscious ways.) Low self-esteem repels, confidence and self-sufficiency attract. The less you seem to need other people, the more likely others will be drawn to you.

Most destructive of all to black self-esteem has been the ideology of branqueamento or whitening. This theory was dreamed up in the 1920s to stop Brazil becoming a predominantly black country. White immigration from Europe was encouraged to stem the black tide. The black in Brazil will disappear within 70 years, said one congressman in 1923.

Rahim, a boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.

They made her aware of her own lowliness, her plain looks, her lack of aspirations, her ignorance of so many things.

It was because of the way you treated me that I learned to be my own person, have my own opinion, stand my ground. It's at least partially because I survived you that I'm the person I am today.

Ivy could have been a model. Hell, Ivy could be anything she wanted. Except happy. Ivy had issues.

Admit it: you Photoshopped your carnates.

Her enhanced boobs dwarfed my 32Cs; she could legit carry drinks without a tray. I always pictured her balancing martinis on her mammaries with circus music teed up.

To be called beautiful was a novelty in his experience.

Aren't you good for ANYthing? asked Trot. Yes, I'm pretty to look at, and that's more than can be said of you, retorted the creature.

I never feel sexy. I have a distant relationship with the mirror.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.

I think each woman has her own relationship to beauty.

I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.

Sometimes I wonder how much of our suffering we allow or impose on ourselves simply in search of our worthiness to accept our own respect and appreciation.

No one is happy unless he respects himself.

Love yourself, appreciate yourself, see the good in you... and respect yourself.

Above all things, respect yourself.

How can you blame others for disrespecting you when you think of yourself as unworthy of respect?

I did learn that it was the greatest thing in the world to respect yourself. Respect other people.

The biggest secret of self-esteem is this: Begin to appreciate other people more; show respect for any human being merely because he is a child of God and therefore a thing of value.

Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.