Quotes About Self-esteem

We all have tremendous potential, and we are all blessed with gifts. Yet the one thing that holds all of us back is some degree of self-doubt. It is not so much the lack of technical information that holds us back, but more the lack of self-confidence.

I was tired of looking in the mirror and not liking what I saw.

If you're ignorant, it's easy to be bullied. If you know what you're talking about, you have a fighting chance.

Arrogant or critical people are often people with low self-esteem who are afraid of taking risks.

I don't really care what people think about me if they don't let me see it.

It would be so much easier to be good if one's hair was handsome auburn, don't you think?

Now you see why I can't be perfectly happy. No one could, who has red hair.

Good-bye, and may you always see a happy face in your looking-glass!

Wouldn't it be lovely, Miss Shirley, if some one could just wave a wand and make everybody beautiful? she said wistfully. Just fancy my feelings, Miss Shirley, if I suddenly fould myself beautiful! But then....with a sigh...if we were all beauties who would do the work? Anne of Windy Poplars

In two more years I'll be really grown up. It's a great comfort to think that I'll be able to use big words then without being laughed at." "Ruby

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You'll just pamper Anne's vanity, Matthew, and she's as vain as a peacock now.

Mrs. Allan has a lovely smile; she has such EXQUISITE dimples in her cheeks. I wish I had dimples in my cheeks, Marilla. I'm not half so skinny as I was when I came here, but I have no dimples yet. If I had perhaps I could influence people for good.

What's the matter with you, Penny? You're not as good looking as you generally believe you are.

I can bear it when other people have a bad opinion of me but it hurts too much when I have a bad opinion of myself.

How can I be vain when I know I'm homely? protested Anne. I love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful—just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful.

Because self-hatred is as galvanizing as ambition.

said quietly. "It's how much you're worth to yourself. It's what you really can feel that makes you nice.

Mother-in-laws are the worst. You know, they don't like you, they make you feel bad about yourself, they have a divorce party the day you meet them and you have to face the fact that they are crazy. Plus, if you aren't very sure of yourself, you may start feeling like you are going that way too.

No name-calling truly bites deep unless, in some dark part of us, we believe it. If we are confident enough then it is just noise.

If you can't impress yourself, then no one else really matters.

Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt said that. It is a quote I try to live by.

Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt said that. It is a quote I try to live by. Most of the time I succeed.

It doesn't matter how much the rest of us love you; if you hate yourself, the self-loathing destroys everything.