Self Esteem Quotes

Far too often we allow the hurtful words of others to define us. From the book: Removing Your Shame Label.

~ Eddie Capparucci

Round still, but that's fine.Feeling good outside and in.Maybe I'm not thin,but skinny isn't perfect.The perfect size is happy.

~ Nikki Grimes

When someone shows you how little you mean to them and you keep coming back for more, before you know it you start to mean less to yourself. You are made up of compartments! You are one whole person! What gets said to you gets said to all of you, ditto, what gets done. Being treated like shit is not an amusing game or a transgressive intellectual experiment. It’s something you accept, condone, and learn to believe you deserve. This is so simple. But I tried so hard to make it complicated.

~ Lena Dunham

You know, that's what you've been doing in a way--coming out. Coming out of your room. Coming out of your house. Coming out of your shell.

~ Jennifer Niven

When you’ve spent your whole life not being good enough, it takes time to let yourself believe that you finally are. Self-worth isn’t a switch that flips inside you. It’s a daily struggle not to sabotage your own success. Not to cave into the voices inside your head that whisper you’re not good enough, or you’ll fuck things up, or that someone else could do things better than you.

~ Julie Johnson

You will never let go of the past by ignoring the most painful thing the person you loved has done to you. When you begin to minimize it, second guess yourself and others, ignore it or even pretend it didn't happen you cheat yourself out of healing. Naturally, your mind would rather believe the lies you are telling it, rather than accept the truth. The soul has a way of protecting itself from trauma, but if left in denial there is no growth or change. Healing requires going to that place you avoid and asking yourself why you are so afraid to accept the reality of what happened to you? Why have you minimized it like this person has wanted you to? What is it about your self esteem that allows you to continue being a doormat?

~ Shannon L. Alder

Learning to love yourself is easier when you have someone to show you how.

~ Martina Boone

Sometimes the path to higher self-esteem is lonely and frightening. We cannot fully know in advance how much more satisfying our lives will be. But the more we are willing to experience and accept the many aspects of who we are, the richer our inner worlds, the greater our resources, the more appropriate we feel to the challenges and opportunities of life. Also, it is more likely that we will find - or create - a style of existence that will meet our individual needs.

~ Nathaniel Branden

Our liabilities pose the problem of inadequacy; our our assets, the challenge of responsibility. Our strengths or virtues can make us feel alone, alienated, cut off from the common herd, a target for envy and hostility, and our desire to belong can overcome any desire to actualise our highest potential.

~ Nathaniel Branden

No one will give a damn about you and your excellence unless you give a damn about yourself.

~ Abhijit Naskar

​Let your pretence of arrogance grow big as a Dinosaur, so that the fake intellectuals start to realize their true inferiority in front of you.

~ Abhijit Naskar

My self-esteem is not tied to the approval of others.

~ Kenneth Wayne Wood

I have only been a ‘Poor Me’ once or twice in my life…. And that was my own fault.

~ Gary Hopkins

Learning to love yourself is like learning to walk—essential, life-changing, and the only way to stand tall.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

If the pursuit of perfection is a way to prove our worth, in the end the pursuit will only prove our imperfections.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

You were scared they were going to laugh at you, right? So let them! People who discourage others will never find their own happiness!

~ Inio Asano

10. Comparison is the root of all feelings of inferiority. The moment you begin examining other people’s strengths against your most obvious weaknesses, your self-esteem starts to crumble!

~ James C. Dobson

In evaluating ourselves, we tend to be long on our weaknesses and short on our strengths.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The higher our self-esteem, the more likely we are to be creative in our work, which means the more successful we are likely to be. The higher our self-esteem, the more ambitious we tend to be, not necessarily in a career or financial sense, but in terms of what we hope to experience in life - emotionally, creatively and spiritually.

~ Nathaniel Branden

Your life, your achievement, your happiness, your person are of paramount importance. Live up to your highest vision of yourself no matter what the circumstances you might encounter. An exalted view of self-esteem is a man's most admirable quality.

~ Ayn Rand

Of all the judgements we pass, none is as important as the one we pass on ourselves.

~ Nathaniel Branden

There is no way to genuinely, powerfully, truly love yourself while crafting a mask of perfection.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Worth is not something you can buy for $39.99, nor something you can lose with 10 extra pounds. Self-judging people make good consumers. Start a revolution. Love yourself.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

As most of us know, the proper attitude toward ourselves is called “good self-esteem.” But self-esteem isan art. An art of balance. A balance between thinking too little of ourselves, and thinking too much ofourselves.The name for thinking too much of ourselves is “egotism.

~ Richard N. Bolles

Without courageous action, Hope is a Universal liar.

~ Sahithi Setikam

The reason that the little things are more important than the big ones, turns out to be very simple: one can fake the big things in one’s behaviour, but not the little things. The little things lack the three “f’s”: feigning, fabrication, fakeness. Plus the most important “c”: contrivance.

~ Nicos Hadjicostis

Your emotions are meant to fluctuate, just like your blood pressure is meant to fluctuate. It’s a system that’s supposed to move back and forth, between happy and unhappy. That’s how the system guides you through the world.

~ Daniel Todd Gilbert

Attachment to praise and avoidance of criticism keeps us from doing innovative, controversial work and--more simply--from following the paths we feel called toward, whether or not those around us understand or approve.

~ Tara Mohr

How well you do things should be incidental, not integral, to the way you regard yourself.

~ Alfie Kohn

The more you try, so desperately, to prove a point to get someone's approval, the more fleeting that approval might be, causing a chain of depreciation of self-esteem. Sometimes, all you need do is truly love yourself and get only the approval and acceptance of the inner self.

~ Ufuoma Apoki

My first strike was marrying a guy without a college degree. My second and third were getting pregnant. I suppose that when I didn't go on to become the next Gloria Allred, she was justified in counting me a failure. And I suppose that until now, I was justified in thinking that I wasn't one.

~ Jodi Picoult

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 selections 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

Indomitable will, purposeful action

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Attachment to praise and avoidance of criticism keeps us from doing innovative, controversial work and--more simply--from following the paths we feel called toward, whether or not those around s understand or approve.

~ Tara Mohr

The important thing to remember, ... is that you are a human being and worthy of respect.

~ Sarah Dessen

I couldn’t help wondering what it was that made me not good enough. It was a familiar feeling. I’d had it off and on my entire life.

~ Drew Nellins Smith

The person identifies with the image the others have created of him on Facebook, and this image in turn guides his life and actions. He comes to believe that his public image (with the comments underneath it) is who he is.

~ Nicos Hadjicostis

Don't allow yourself to be held hostage by the opinion of others.

~ Laurie Buchanan

The problem with social media is that it's great for your ego, but terrible for your sanity.

~ Andrena Sawyer

It's not really my problem if they think I'm weird.

~ Sid Vicious