Quotes about Self-esteem

There is too much concern with what works and sells than with gospel truth. It is tempting, and better for one's self-esteem, to be "like other nations" (1 Sam. 8:20) than to be a resident alien, a marginalized weakling, or a fool.

Do not entertain the enemy's questions about how valuable you are.

It gives me great strength to know that half the people I meet are below average.

Modern barber college, Smith eyes closed suffers a haircut fearing its ugliness 50 cents, a barber student olive-skinned 'Garcia' on his coat, two blond small boys one with feared face and big ears watching from seats, tell him 'You're ugly little boy & you've got big ears' he'd weep and suffer and it wouldn't even be true, the other thinfaced conscious concentrated patched bluejeans and scuffed shoes who watches me delicate, suffering child that grows hard and greedy with puberty.

'Into The Gloss,' what I think it did so well was create a conversation around beauty and make beauty the main event as opposed to the ugly step-sister, which it often is in magazines.

There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don't get them.

Some young ladies are so starved for male approval that what should be a normal attraction to men is accelerated into an obsessive need for male affirmation. Tragically, these dear ladies allow themselves to be devoured in the arms of men who have neither regard not respect for them as people.

I think a woman is born with the desire to hear she is beautiful.

Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.

Man is the only animal that when you pat him on the head, his head swells up.

If Olga had been a little more foolish, she would have found herself quite pretty. But since she was an intelligent girl, she considered herself much uglier than she really was, for she was actually neither ugly nor pretty

A person who really likes himself or herself has high self-esteem and therefore a positive self-concept. When you really like yourself in a particular role, you perform at your best in that role.