Quotes About Self-esteem

Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be.

To say something nice about themselves this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do.

Though I have no productive worth I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.

If you really do put a small value upon yourself rest assured that the world will not raise your price.

Blessed are they who heal us of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man I know of none more precious.

Do not make yourself so big. You are not so small.

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

The essence of leadership is the capacity to build and develop the self-esteem of the workers.

If you treat people to a vision of themselves, if you apparently overrate them, you make them become what they are capable of becoming.

There's nothing better for building confidence than learning you can do something you thought you couldn't.

Learning to deal with setbacks, and maintaining the persistence and optimism necessary for childhood's long road to mastery are the real foundations of lasting self-esteem.

Ive worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. Im past the point where I worry about people liking me.

Write hand-written notes daily and commit to supporting the growth and self-esteem of children, because it makes such a big difference in terms of their capacity for learning.

Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

If you hair is done properly and you're wearing good shoes, you can get anyway with anything.

You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.

One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.

Once you can open yourself up to the idea that your defectiveness is not a fact, the healing process can begin to work.

You feel like all you can get is what other people deign to give you. You don't go after what you want.

Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked, psychologists might use that fact as a therapeutic lever - stressing to patients that being known as a narcissist will actually cause them to lose the respect and social status they crave.

narcissism levels have increased significantly among college students over the past several decades.

women tend to underrate their achievements, and have less confidence in their abilities than their line managers have for them.

In a dating and courtship relationship, I would not have you spend five minutes with someone who belittles you, one who is constantly critical of you, one who is cruel at your expense and may even call it humor. Life is tough enough without the person who is supposed to love you leading the assault on your self-esteem, your sense of dignity, your confidence, and your joy. In this person's care, you deserve to feel physically safe and emotionally secure.

Try not to compare your children, even if you think you are skillful at it. You may say most positively that "Susan is pretty and Sandra is bright," but all Susan will remember is that she isn't bright and Sandra that she isn't pretty. Praise each child individually for what that child is and help him or her escape our culture's obsession with comparing, competing, and never feeling we are "enough.