Self Esteem Quotes

Telling yourself you like the way you look is easy. Believing it is an entirely different kettle of whales.

~ Andrew Biss

Thank you very Much, I enjoyed myself

~ Richard Feynman

Surely a good therapist should produce a Dorian Gray-style portrait from under the couch so the patient can see the person they really are.

~ Rosamund Lupton

Sooo, I'm tired of people thinking I'm a freak. I know you can't relate to that but -Get over it already, will ya? Candace stood. You're not Smellody anymore. You're pretty. You can get hot guys now. Tanned ones with good vision. Not geeky hose jousters. She shut the window. Don't you ever want to use your lips as something other than veneer protectors?Melody felt a familiar pinch behind her eyes. Her throat dried. Her eyes burned. And then they came. Like salty little paratroopers, tears descended en masse. She hated Candace thought she had never made out with a boy. But how could she convince a seventeen-year-old with more dates than a fruitcake that Randy the Starbucks cashier (aka Scarbucks, because of his acne scars) was a great kisser? She couldn't.

~ Lisi Harrison

A low self-image is usually not based upon facts, it's mismanaged memory.

~ Orrin Woodward

Then there was the realisation that I didn't actually feel that much better when I was thin(ner). In fact the 'thin' version felt worse because I lived with hunger clawing at my stomach all the time, and in fear that I was going to get fat again. After years of neuroticism I'd finally understood those who loved me would continue to put up with me fat or thin, and those who didn't ignored me. As a middle-aged woman I was pretty much invisible anyway. To pass unnoticed through an image-obsessed society is surprisingly liberating.

~ Helen Brown

I looked at him nonplussed. I realized that I have spent so many years being on a diet that the idea that you might actually need calories to survive has been completely wiped out of my consciousness. Have reached point where believe nutritional ideal is to eat nothing at all, and that the only reason people eat is because they are so greedy they cannot stop themselves from breaking out and ruining their diets.

~ Helen Fielding

In the story of Ugly Duckling, when did the Ugly Duckling stop feeling Ugly? When he realized that he was a Swan. Each of us has something Special, a swan of some sort, hidden inside somewhere. But until we recognize that it's there, what can we do but splash around, treading water? The Wise are Who They Are. They work with what they've got and do what they can do.

~ Benjamin Hoff

But now that she had achieved knighthood, and thought and acted as she wanted and decided, for one has to act in this way in order to save this world, she neither noticed nor cared that all the people around her thought she was insane.

~ Kathy Acker

But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,--cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness.

~ Anthony Trollope

I’m ALL about the Alternative.

~ Solange Nicole

Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics.

~ Sebastian Horsley

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

~ André Malraux

The diet industry is making a lot of money selling us fad diets, nonfat foods full of chemicals, gym memberships, and pills while we lose a piece of our self-esteem every time we fail another diet or neglect to use the gym membership we could barely afford.

~ Portia De Rossi

You may not be the smartest, richest or best looking person but you're probably not the dumbest, ugliest or poorest either.

~ Rob Liano

Showing your true self sometimes don't give you any benefit, but at least you do honest to your self and God.

~ Olivia Sinaga

In the inner courtroom of my mind, mine is the only judgment that counts.

~ Nathaniel Branden

But there were certain moments in life that forever defined one as a person - in one's own estimation, anyway. And one's own self esteem, when all was said and done, was of far more importance than the fickle esteem of one's peers.

~ Mary Balogh

Stagnation is self-abdication.

~ Ryan Talbot

Clones fit in. Freaks stand out. Ask me which one I prefer.

~ Joanne Harris

You know men. We have delicate egos.I wouldn't describe Jace's ego as delicate.No, Jace is sort of the antiaircraft artillery tank of male egos

~ Simon Admitted

If you don't feel you have any choice in a situation, self-esteem and confidence plummet. But once you understand that you do have a choice, self-esteem will improve. You aren't a helpless victim anymore. You decide how you deal with a situation. You aren't just reacting to life; you're creating your life.

~ Theresa Cheung

We survey lush landscapes with variations not dissimilar to a so-called imperfect female body with absolute pleasure -- say, an expanse of Irish countryside with grassy rolling hills. But is it really so much uglier when it's made of flesh instead of soil?

~ Kim Brittingham

What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island?

~ Wyndham Lewis

We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves.

~ Alain De Botton

Typical me--hurricane that leaves nothing but destruction.

~ Katie Mcgarry

Never shall a young man,Thrown into despairBy those great honey-colouredRamparts at your ear,Love you for yourself aloneAnd not your yellow hair.

~ W.b. Yeats

Self-love is not the process of ignoring your flaws. Self-love is expanding your awareness to include your flaws and your strengths.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

I don't need to be tame, because dragons choose their partner by themselves.

~ Olivia Sinaga

III. I have often wondered how it should come to pass, that every man loving himself best, should more regard other men's opinions concerning himself than his own. For if any God or grave master standing by, should command any of us to think nothing by himself but what he should presently speak out; no man were able to endure it, though but for one day. Thus do we fear more what our neighbours will think of us, than what we ourselves.

~ Marcus Aurelius

There are no mirrors of any kind in here. If there were, I’d want to smash them, but I wouldn’t. Instead, I’d probably just stare at them, giving myself negative affirmations.

~ Rasmenia Massoud

Respect is a kind of magic too, you know.

~ Jefferson Smith

When our feet talk to us, we listen.

~ Alexander Nestoiter

Often in the morning he drove a long hour or more to the markets in the city, there to behold what would determine the day’s special. With the crates of fresh selesctions snuggled into his station wagon, his thoughts on the ride back confronted the culinary equivalent of the writer’s blank page. Sometimes his head swirled with exciting ideas; other mornings he was in a panic upon returning with the same old eggplant and squash and zucchini and nothing but the dullness of the word ratatouille standing by to mock him.

~ Nancy Zafris

When I loved myself enough, I let the tomboy in me swing off the rope in Jackass Canyon. Yes!

~ Kim Mcmillen

Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But there are a number of occasions when it suits him to pose as a sort of Candide: naive, and ill-prepared for and easily unhorsed by events. No doubt this pose costs him something in point of self-esteem. It is a pose, furthermore, which he often adopts at precisely the time when the record shows him to be knowledgeable, and when knowledge or foreknowledge would also confront him with charges of responsibility or complicity.

~ Christopher Hitchens

Healthy self-esteem rests upon a strong foundation of core values and an inclination to act and speak in alignment with those values.

~ Susan C. Young

Take deliberate steps to retrain your brain and turn your inner critic into an enthusiastic, devoted fan.

~ Susan C. Young

Focusing your energy on the things you don’t like about yourself is self-sabotage and defeating. When you re-direct all that energy into a more positive direction, you will feel the shift instantly to improve your self-esteem and attitude.

~ Susan C. Young

It is hard to earn the respect of others when you do not respect yourself. Others may find it difficult to enjoy your company if you do not enjoy your own.

~ Susan C. Young