98 Self esteem Quotes

Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be.

The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand.

An individual's self-concept is the core of his personality. It affects every aspect of human behavior: the ability to learn, the capacity to grow and change. A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success in life.

I love the pride whose measure is its own eminence and not the insignificance of someone else.

The psychic scars caused by believing that you are ugly leave a permanent mark on your personality.

But the real secret to total gorgeousness is to believe in yourself, have self confindence, and try to be secure in your decisions and thoughts.

My mom raised me so wonderfully. She gave me self esteem and made me appreciate my flaws, as well as my strengths.

It would be hard to name a more certain sign of poor self-esteem than the need to perceive some other group as inferior.

I tell ya when I was a kid, all I knew was rejection. My yo-yo, it never came back.

Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

Cling to your insecurity - in this world, it's the only thing you can be sure of.

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.

It was still only nine o'clock when I set off on the last leg of my journey, feeling old and dirty and incapable. You probably know the feeling if you are over eighteen.

After having admired the women of Rome, say to yourself, 'I too am beautiful!' : In you I met a real person. I need not give you any other praise.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

There's nothing more humbling than seeing your best quotes in a list, and thinking they could have been written by a coma patient with a keyboard and spasms.

I feel like our future is our confidence and self-esteem..

I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.

Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.

Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it. (535)

Here's a bumper sticker I'd like to see: 'We are the proud parents of a child whose self-esteem is sufficient that he doesn't need us promoting his minor scholastic achievements on the back of our car.'

The importance of Liking Yourself is a notion that fell heavily out of favour during the coptic, anti-ego frenzy of the acid era - but nobody guessed back then that the experiment might churn up this kind of hangover; a whole subculture of frightened illiterates with no faith in anything.

Then, all censure of a man's self is oblique praise.

I've always though that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.

If you are a woman, if you are a person of colour, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world. And it's going to be really hard for us to find messages of self-love and support anywhere.... If you don't have self-esteem, you will hesitate to do anything in your life.... You will hesitate to report a rape. You will hesitate to defend yourself when you are discriminated against because of your race, your sexuality, your size, your gender. You will hesitate to vote; you will hesitate to dream. For us to have self-esteem is truly an act of revolution, and our revolution is long overdue.

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't.

I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem. You know, I saw a billboard in New York I wish I had photographed. It was for the TNN network. It said three words against a patriotic background of red, white and blue - BIGGER, YOUNGER, RICHER. Now, I find that fascinating: 'Bigger, younger, richer.' This whole idea of being wealthy has gone too far. I never ride in a limousine, you know. I feel gross if I get in a limousine. One good thing about the Sixties was it sort of was the opposite back then. You looked silly trying to appear rich.

What matter if I live it all once more? Endure that toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain Brought face to face with his own clumsiness; The finished man among his enemies?- How in the name of Heaven can he escape That defiling and disfigured shape The mirror of malicious eyes Casts upon his eyes until at last He thinks that shape must be his shape?

Love, I find is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Zits are beauty marks. (1992)

No man is much pleased with a companion, who does not increase, in some respect, his fondness for himself.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

'In order to have any sense of control over our own life, we need to know that we're able to make sense out of our experience, in all of its many aspects. It's the need that religion addresses, that philosophy addresses... if you have a moral code that you do your best to live up to, other things being equal, it's very positive in its consequences for your self esteem, even if the moral code is in some ways mistaken. If you conscientiously try to live it to the best of your ability, that would have a salutary effect on your self-esteem. If you violate it, it would have a negative effect on your self-esteem. But suppose you have nothing to violate, no worldview-that absence will limit your self-esteem, because you need to feel aligned with reality. You need feel that you are in appropriate contact with the real world. Now your theory of what the real world is might be right or wrong. But so long as you are able to believe that you are in contact with the real world and are acting on that knowledge, your self-esteem benefits... Regardless, upsetting as it may be to orthodox Objectivists, I think you can show that in the short run and in [a coerced] environment, a person who has some overarching faith has a better chance of surviving. But I wouldn't explain that all away by saying ignorance is bliss. The point is to understand what function a belief system provides. Then you can understand why an imperfect one is sometimes beneficial'[8]

I don't like the thought of you being married to a woman who always thinks she married down That's a problem isn't it? But the truth is, she did No. No, that's not true. There is no woman alive who, marrying you, would be marrying down I thought - that's a thing that mother would say Yes. Mothers say things like that more than fathers do

Damn, what happened to me? I used to be a lot stronger than this Fat lot of good it did you

There's been 11 billion people to walk the face of this earth, but there's never been one like you! - Zig Ziglar

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Uh, Brandy, it sounds like you're giving me alot of crap and yet somebody wrote a song about you. You heard of that? Yeah? Well, you don't deserve it; you don't deserve it at all.

(to her friend) See, you can look thin even though you're not.

It's that good being me.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Achte dich selbst, wenn du willst, dass andere dich achten sollen!

Sei nicht zu sehr ein Sklave der Meinungen andrer von dir! Sei selbstandig! Was kummert dich am Ende das Urteil der ganzen Welt, wenn du tust, was du sollst?

Don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don't doubt yourself.

A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt.

Whoever attaches a lot of value to the opinions of others pays them too much honor.

So I watched the Pink Panther last night, and so I'm trying desperately to be funny, and then it's just not working out so good... I wonder if maybe I could've been a comedian or something like that, or maybe I could've been a doctor, then I wouldn't have to make anyone laugh.

Can't see my little Willy.

I'm one of those stupid bums who never went to university, and a fat lot of harm it's done me. (circa 1968)

It is some basic certainty which the noble soul has about itself, something which does not allow itself to be sought out or found or perhaps even to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself.

Anyone who despises himself will still respect himself as a despiser.

Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

What! Think you that my flashes show me Only in lightnings to excel? Believe me, friends, you do not know me, For I can thunder quite as well.

Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself, That in my action I may soar as high As I can now discern with this clear eye.

Those services which the community will most readily pay for it is most disagreeable to render. You are paid for being something less than a man.

What's it to you if I love you?

I pretty much fell in love with Vanessa the moment I set eyes on her. As a person, I was pretty much a lost cause at that point of my life. She turned all that around for me with her incredible tenderness and understanding. Very quickly, I realised I couldn't live without her. She made me feel like a real human being instead of someone Hollywood had manufactured. It sounds incredibly corny and phoney, but that's exactly what happened to me and what she has meant to me. (2004)

The real movie stars were Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Spencer Tracy, Montgomery Clift. How could I put myself in the same category as Clark Gable? Tom Cruise is a great movie star. Do I consider myself a movie star? I consider myself a guy with a good job, an interesting job. (2004)

'And I can't even go to the grocery store without some ones that's clean and a shirt with a team/It seems we living the American dream but people highest up got the lowest self esteem/The prettiest people do the ugliest things for the road to riches and diamond rings.'

Come on, Berzerker, girl think sexy.

I have nothing to declare except my Genius.

If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people.

Anxiety is sort of the opposite of ego. You're so sure you'll do everything wrong you're afraid to do anything at all. It results from over motivation - leading to errors that lead to an underestimation of one's self. Work out your anxieties on paper and read. This calms the mind.

'Oh, nobody would ever want to know me in Hollywood. I'm far too puffin-faced for that, too weird-looking. No, I think I'll probably stick to telly, if telly'll have me, though I wouldn't mind doing radio plays as well.'

'No more Mr. Nice Guy'

I made brown!