Quotes about Self-esteem

Why, there's hardly enough of me left to make ONE respectable person!

If you believe you are a problem, sooner or later you will begin to act like one. Likewise, if you believe you are not intrinsically a problem but a solution, you will begin to act like one.

Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.

Feeling unworthy is like putting a huge obstacle into the God force, into the life force which is everywhere.

There is far too great a disproportion between what one is and what others think one is, or at least what they say they think one is.

Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.

Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.

What other people think of you is not your business. If you start to make that business your business, you will be offended for the rest of your life.

I grew up in Tennessee, where no one was really hairy, and with sisters who were so beautiful - my little sister was a pageant girl. But me, I was this weird-looking hairy child. I had more than just a unibrow; I feel like I had a mustache, a goatee.

If one function of low self-esteem is to keep high-status people satisfied with your deference, then its level, strictly speaking, should depend on how much deference it takes to do that; you may, in the presence of someone powerful, feel a deeper humility—about your intelligence, for example—than an objective observer would see as warranted.

Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.