Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francine Pascal

Elizabeth scowled, feeling like a nobody, a nothing. She felt like her entire self had been made worthless. She could change her interests, but she couldn't change her looks. She'd never be six feet tall. She'd never look like a supermodel.

Jennifer O'Neill

I had low self-esteem.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

Meryl Streep

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I love you, don’t I? And the gods know you are definitely not easy to deal with. (Aimee) Thanks, Aim. By the way I still have a tiny bit of confidence left. Please make sure you stomp on it too while you’re at it. Gods forbid it should actually grow into something called self-esteem. (Fang)

Sherry Argov

It's that a bit of irreverence is necessary to have any self-esteem at all. Not irreverence for people, but rather, for what other people think.

Sebastian Horsley

Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics.

Madonna Ciccone

I felt very awkward and out of place in school. Not popular, not attractive, not special in any way and I was longing for love and approval from someone.

Lorraine Bracco

I don't think I am narcissistic. I think I have low self-esteem.

Melanie Lynskey

I was a kid who didn't have a lot of self-esteem.

Marianne Williamson

Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

Michael Bridges

When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Mason Cooley

Self-esteem is not based on itself.

Mary Kay Ash

So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.

Mencius

The foundation of the world lies in the nation. The foundation of the nation lies in the family. The foundation of the family lies in the individual.

Melody Beattie

Embrace and love all of yourself - past, present, and future. Forgive yourself quickly and as often as necessary. Encourage yourself. Tell yourself good things about yourself.

Melody Beattie

We are more than our problems. Even if our problem is our own behavior, the problem is not who we are-it's what we did. It's okay to have problems. It's okay to talk about problems-at appropriate times, and with safe people. It's okay to solve problems. And we're okay, even when we have, or someone we love has a problem. We don't have to forfeit our personal power or our self-esteem. We have solved exactly the problems we've needed to solve to become who we are.

Marie Osmond

You marry at the level of your self-esteem, make sure you have self worth.

Norman Cousins

You are younger today than you will ever be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow.

Miguel de Cervantes

Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.

Neil Diamond

I have a lot of confidence, but little Self-Esteem. This has given me a tremendous creative spark because it forced me to keep proving myself.

Theodore Roethke

Should we say the self, once perceived, becomes the soul?

Theodore Kaczynski

Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.

Melissa Etheridge

Believe in yourself and what you feel. Your power will come from that.

Lev Grossman

Though the funny thing about never being asked for anything is that after a while you start to feel like maybe you don’t have anything worth giving.

L. Neil Smith

Socialism is, among other things, the political habitat of low self-esteem, incompetence, self-loathing, and a willingness to steal - or have stolen for you what you are unable or unwilling to work for. Socialism is a philosophy fit only for slugs, leaches, and mosquitoes.

Sinead O'Connor

I think people who come from abuse and/or people who have mental illnesses, have terrible self-esteem problems.

Rajneesh

From the very beginning you are being told to compare yourself with others. This is the greatest disease; it is like a cancer that goes on destroying your very soul because each individual is unique, and comparison is not possible. I am just myself and you are just yourself. There is nobody else in the world you can be compared with.

P.M. Forni

Bragging is often merely a ladder we build for ourselves out of words when we are afraid we are not tall enough in the eyes of the world. It is an unwitting confession to low self-esteem.

Jane Haddam

In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect... and no.

Danica McKellar

I noticed there were so many people, especially women, who would come up to me having recognized me from TV and say, 'I heard you were a math person, why math? Oh my gosh, I could never do math!' I could just see their self-esteem crumbling; I thought that was silly, so I wanted to make math more friendly and accessible.

Condoleezza Rice

You know, life is not one in which you just get to choose the things every day that come easily to you. And it's also true - and this is the self-esteem problem - you learn that there are people who are better at things than you are.

Condoleezza Rice

Self esteem comes from achievements. Not from lax standards and false praise.