Top 100 About Self Esteem Quotes
#1. It's all about self-esteem now. Build the kids' self-esteem, make them feel good about themselves. If everybody grows up with high self-esteem, who's gonna dance in our strip-clubs?
Greg Giraldo
#2. There's a lot of talk about self-esteem these days. It seems pretty basic to me. If you eat to feel proud of yourself, you've got to do things you can be proud of. Feelings follow actions.
Oseola McCarty
#3. I'm still the same person who grew up mostly in a Midwestern, factory-working neighborhood where talk about "self-esteem" would have seemed like a luxury.
Gloria Steinem
#4. Being on stage is about self esteem and self confidence.
Jake Miller
#5. Girls playing sports is not about winning gold medals. It's about self-esteem, learning to compete and learning how hard you have to work in order to achieve your goals.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
#6. Out of fear, out of the desire for approval, out of misguided notions of duty, people surrender themselves
their convictions and their aspirations
every day. There is nothing noble about it. It takes far more courage to fight for your values than to relinquish them.
Nathaniel Branden
#7. Getting the pretty back is about getting back in touch with your essential self: the part of you that knows what you really want.
Molly Ringwald
#8. To fully understand how utterly amazing we really are we must first understand all of the things about us that are not, and then we must make our habitation where they are not.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#10. At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition
Naomi Wolf
#11. Being a vegan just helps me build up my self-esteem. I feel good about it every time I eat a meal.
Steve-O
#12. I think the biggest difference is that I've noticed Western parents seem much more concerned about their children's psyches, their self-esteem, whereas tough immigrant parents assume strength rather than fragility in their children and therefore behave completely differently.
Amy Chua
#13. Learn more about yourself! Make a self-esteem collage using pictures of other people you wish you were.
Amy Sedaris
#14. All too often we're filled with negative and limiting beliefs. We're filled with doubt. We're filled with guilt or with a sense of unworthiness. We have a lot of assumptions about the way the world is that are actually wrong.
Jack Canfield
#15. When I was 19 years old, I came down with anorexia. I had it for about a year before it became public. And it had a lot to do with my self-esteem.
Tracey Gold
#16. Self-righteousness, when you think about it, is a contra-indicator of self-esteem. It's what sets in when genuine righteousness eludes us.
Meghan Daum
#17. To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives. - Denis Waitley.
Denis Waitley
#18. What good is any feeling we may have about ourselves, if it only lasts as long as others agree to it?
Guy Finley
#19. The number one goal in resolving a conflict is to make sure both sides maintain their self-esteem. Resolving conflict is rarely about who is right. It is about acknowledgment and appreciation of differences.
Thomas Crum
#20. The best thing to learn from any government is that it does not get affacted by what other people talk or think about it.
Amit Kalantri
#21. Very rarely will I say nice things about myself because that'll only lead to self-esteem, but the podcast is something I'm really proud of and I think I'm putting out a great product.
Jimmy Pardo
#22. I've never cheated or been cheated upon. I've seen my parents together and secure. So I feel the same way. Infidelity stems from low self-esteem. You want to cheat when you don't feel good about yourself.
Preity Zinta
#23. There's something AMAZING about you. You owe it to yourself to fulfill your destiny. You were put on earth for a reason. Don't betray yourself because of other people opinions of who you should be. God has already implanted within you who you MEANT to be. Trust your gut instincts.
Yvonne Pierre
#24. Stop caring about what other people think of you, how they perceive you, or if they approve of you. Start to focus on your inner peace.
Tisha Marie Payton, MHR
#25. When you watch Olympic athletes in competition, does your self-esteem plummet? Of course not. On the contrary, you feel wonder and admiration; you're inspired that such exceptional individuals exist. So why can't we feels the same way about beauty?
Ted Chiang
#26. Whenever you complete a task of any size or importance, you feel a surge of energy, enthusiasm, and self-esteem. The more important the completed task, the happier, more confident, and more powerful you feel about yourself and your world.
Brian Tracy
#27. Your self-image tells about what you think about yourself and how you appear to yourself in your own conscience. Self-image is the picture of yourself carried in your own mind.
Israelmore Ayivor
#28. That is because no one could ever hate me as much as I hate myself, okay? So any mean thing someone's gonna think of to say about me, I've already said to me, about me, probably within the last half hour.
Lena Dunham
#29. For all of its glamour and frivolity, fashion happens to be a relevant and powerful force in our lives. At every level of society, people care greatly about the way they look, which affects both their self-esteem and the way other people interact with them.
Teri Agins
#30. No one will give a damn about you and your excellence unless you give a damn about yourself.
Abhijit Naskar
#31. Humility is not about having a low self-image or poor self-esteem. Humility is about self-awareness.
Erwin McManus
#32. After my second-to-last record, 'The Greatest', I had gone on tour for a while, and I didn't play an instrument for about five years. And I got kind of - it's not self-esteem or whatever, or anger toward myself - but disappointed in myself that I hadn't been challenging myself to learn musically.
Cat Power
#33. Why don't we learn about the mental health which affects every minute of our lives? ... Where is the school for learning [about] positive mental health?
Maddy Malhotra
#34. 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.
Lev Grossman
#35. The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Bill Gates
#36. The promotion of "self-esteem" in our schools has been so successful that people feel free to spout off about all sorts of things - and see no reason why their opinions should not be taken as seriously as the views of people who actually know what they are talking about.
Thomas Sowell
#37. People are perfectly capable of giving love even if they feel less confident about themselves.
Anna Agoncillo
#38. Often our self-esteem is tied to our work. In our culture, men and women often define themselves by the jobs they hold ... But a person's job tells you nothing about a person's character or value.
Billy Graham
#39. Self-esteem doesn't come simply from dressing well, but they are both something we can control. It's a missed opportunity when women say they don't have the money, figure, etc., because style is such a way to help cultivate the way women feel about themselves.
Stacy London
#40. We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
Brian Tracy
#41. Through transcendence of duality, we foster greater unity in our lives, which brings about inner peace and the sprouting of unconditional LOVE.
Alaric Hutchinson
#42. Of all the judgments you make in life, none is as important as the one you make about yourself. The difference between low self-esteem and high self-esteem is the difference between passivity and action, between failure and success.
Nathaniel Branden
#43. We must all guard against the human weakness of forming into tribes in order to lift our self-esteem. We can feel good about ourselves without having to find someone else to classify as inferior.
Steve Hogarth
#44. I believe that the dissolution of a marriage comes about by the breaking down of self-esteem.
Dixie Carter
#45. People with low self-confidence and self-esteem often feel nervous about antagonizing others and tend to rate others' needs more highly than their own.
Auliq Ice
#46. The path to self-esteem lies in getting over yourself. There is nothing to esteem about our smaller dramas; it's our commitment to something beyond ourselves that is truly estimable to ourself and others.
Marianne Williamson
#47. Low self esteem involves imagining the worst that other people can think about you.
Roger Ebert
#48. When you have lived your life under such dominant image-leadership, its pressures put a certain invisible English on the cue ball of your development: It influences all of your ideas about who you should be, all the ways in which you become yourself.
Cintra Wilson
#49. Watching TV produces low levels of satisfaction because it doesn't challenge you. Instead, do something that raises your self-esteem. Tap into your 'signature strengths' - things you're good at or passionate about.
Karen Salmansohn
#50. Dumbing down takes many forms: art that is good for you, museums that flatter you, universities that increase your self-esteem. Culture, after all, is really about you.
Denis Dutton
#51. Just trying to do something - just being there, showing up - is how we get braver. Self-esteem is about doing.
Joy Browne
#52. I don't believe that. I don't believe that there are bad things about you. Only things that you think are bad.
Jessica Sorensen
#53. Your opinions about me does not change who I am. I am God's special possession.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#54. I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves.
Jamie Lee Curtis
#55. The secret to life is to have no fear. When you can let go of what others think about you, how something is going to turn out, or how your past will affect your future, then you are finally living life free.
Shannon L. Alder
#56. The purpose of school is for children to learn, not for them to feel good about themselves all the time.
Jean M. Twenge
#57. People always want to ask me about my drug problem - I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem problem!
Gloria Gaynor
#58. I had very, very bad self-esteem - that I was a fake, everybody was going to find out, that I didn't deserve to have success, just about my looks and really, really bad self esteem.
Geena Davis
#59. Focusing on who you are, and pursuing opportunities to improve your abilities, allows you to be in acceptance of yourself. This makes you a beautiful person who could care less about what others think of you.
Ellen J. Barrier
#60. We doubt ourselves. It's not about lowering the self-esteem. It's about increasing the self-confidence by letting the risk factor do its part
Bhavik Sarkhedi
#61. When you continually worry about what other people think of you, they own you.
Donald L. Hicks
#62. I want to feel proud and happy about my selflessness. But what happens when being selfless takes away a big part of your self?
Jaye Robin Brown
#63. Of course our most important role as a parent is to have our children know that they are loved and worthy. Even more importantly, it's to help them discover, and fan the flames of whatever it is that they are enthusiastic about!
Steve Karagiannis
#64. You don't have to be like anyone else. You just need to learn more about your own creative self and start blooming.
Deborah Day
#65. I just want you inside, baby, we don't need to talk about promises.
Janet Jackson
#66. To hell with what anyone thinks about your life, but you should know what you think about it.
Abby Fabiaschi
#67. Whenever it comes to doing anything. Remember the part about having confidence.
Auliq Ice
#68. I didn't despise myself for being who I was, and I never would. I wouldn't allow anyone to make me feel bad about that. That was a line I could draw in the sand.
Z.A. Maxfield
#69. I'm very passionate about the use of sports in young people's lives to build self-esteem and self-discipline and self-confidence. It's been a big thing for me.
Ed Skrein
#70. I didn't want to go down any scarier path of low self-esteem than I was already on the track for. So during my second year of college I was like, 'I'm over it! I have to go see what this other thing called life is about!'
Anna Chlumsky
#71. Because that saying about sticks and stones is a pack of lies. Unkind words hurt more than anything else. You end up carrying them around in your head, wondering if they're true. Bruises fade, but self-doubt follows you forever.
Kate Lattey
#72. The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.
Robert Hand
#73. People who are insecure about themselves will avoid social comparisons that are potentially threatening to their self-esteem
Albert Bandura
#74. You are that blue-white diamond, so treat yourself like a Tiffany.
Sharon Law Tucker
#75. When you express "purity" which is the truth about yourself, you feel a love for yourself that is expressed by self-respect, self-esteem, and self-confidence!
Tae Yun Kim
#76. I believed almost every negative thing that I ever heard someone say about me.
Mark L. Baynard
#77. Sometimes people with low self-esteem will try to punish you for caring about them.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#78. When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.
Jake Steinfeld
#79. The stakes are so high because auditions are make or break. You get the job or you don't. The stakes are about as high as they get, for yourself and your own self-esteem.
Madeline Zima
#80. Managing stress is about controlling the way you respond to events and having an open mind about the things that stress you. Learn to talk to God during the day and ask Him to give you peace and to help you with your problems
Michele Woolley
#81. If you care about what people think about you, you will end up being their slave. Reject and pull your own rope.
Auliq Ice
#82. It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.
Warsan Shire
#83. I used to be self conscious about my height, but then I thought, fuck that, I'm Harry Potter.
Daniel Radcliffe
#84. To having no self esteem to feeling wonderful about yourself doing what you love to do and making the money that you want to be making. That is my contribution to humanity.
John Assaraf
#85. Practise really seeing yourself in the mirror. This is NOT about examining yourself. This is about you looking beyond your external image to connect with your soul. Look upon yourself with complete appreciation and acceptance. You are so beautiful.
Miya Yamanouchi
#86. Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem. We cannot draw to ourselves more than we think we are worth.
Iyanla Vanzant
#87. I'm about as normal as Norman Bates.
Eminem
#88. Okay listen, you think I'm so inconsequential? Then try this on for size. All those who see unworthiness when they look at me and are given thereby to denying me value - to you I say, I'm not talking about being AS GOOD as you. I hereby declare myself BETTER than you.
Sidney Poitier
#89. I think that giving mindless praise is ridiculous. But I understand why parents do it. They want their kids to feel good about themselves. But parents are never going to teach their children true, positive self esteem by praising everything they do.
Rosalind Wiseman
#90. The assumption being that if high-risk children could be made to 'feel good about themselves,' these epidemics could be mitigated ... This prescription, unfortunately, has proven to be yet another in a long list of nouveau homilies that haven't lived up to their promises.
John Rosemond
#91. The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself. I tell this to my students: It's not about copying me or my logic systems. It's about allowing yourself to be yourself.
Frank Gehry
#92. Needing to talk badly about others indicates low self esteem. That means, 'I feel so low that instead of picking myself up, I have to cut others down.' Letting go of negative things quickly is healthy.
Pope Francis
#94. When the world kicks your ass, don't step in line.
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Sondra Faye
#95. I used to never get in a swimsuit. I used to feel so embarrassed about my skin and scars. I'm over that, it wasted too much of my time and I missed out on too much.
Stephanie Nielson
#96. Talking about your hair becomes a framework for talking about your vanity, your self-esteem, your relationships with your family, your mortality.
Elizabeth Benedict
#97. Judging by informal observation, most young Americans burn up their spare time buffing their emotional IQ and self-esteem with social media and non-stop texting. That's great for eye-thumb coordination, but what about the satisfaction of actually making something?
Seth Shostak
#98. There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to build.
Randy Pausch
#100. Self-justification, therefore, is not only about protecting high self-esteem; it's also about protecting low self-esteem if that is how a person sees himself.
Elliot Aronson
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