Top 56 Beauty Self Esteem Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Beauty Self Esteem

#1. Be real. Embrace that you have weakness. Because everyone does. Embrace that your body is not perfect. Because nobody's is. Embrace that you have things you can't control. We all have a list of them.

Dan Pearce

#2. The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her beauty.

Naomi Wolf

#3. As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.

Naomi Wolf

#4. Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.

Germaine Greer

#5. Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

Naomi Wolf

#6. Oh what a shame, if she thought any beauty that she has came from him. She didn't understand the beauty of her own skin.

Jasmine Sandozz

#7. Despite our battered exterior and in spite of the festering scars and rank filth that overlays it, there is underneath it all the pristine likeness of God Himself. And we would be wise to cast an eye not on the marred exterior, but to be fixed on the glorious interior.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#8. Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken.

Naomi Wolf

#9. 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

#10. To lose confidence in one's body is to lose confidence in oneself.

Simone De Beauvoir

#11. You need bravery for compassion. In the picture of your soul, the bravery points are the most beautiful.

Amit Ray

#12. Not only have people stopped trying to be attractive when they are out among other people, but they are no longer even trying not to look ugly!

Milan Kundera

#13. If you have never seen a masterpiece, look in the mirror.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#14. Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.

Naomi Wolf

#15. Healthy emotions come in all sizes. Healthy minds come in all sizes. And healthy bodies come in all sizes.

Cheri K. Erdman

#16. I did it because you are a beautiful, desirable woman, and a long time ago, someone made you think you weren't. I'm not saying a few lessons from me can undo everything, but I want you to see a little bit of what I see when I look at you.

Elizabeth Harmon

#17. True beauty radiates not from outer cosmetics, but from the simple joy of making a difference for those that need your voice, passion, and time without expecting or wanting anything in return ...

Deborah Barnes

#18. I knew with certainty now - I could say no, and he would stop. Above all, I felt the fierce beauty of the choice. I knew now what it was that had held me from falling into my desire to be with him fully: I first needed to make sure he was a man who would respect my 'No.

Aspen Matis

#19. The strangest thing was, as beautiful as I found her to be, she admitted that she wasn't always comfortable in her own skin. I found that hard to believe until she explained herself. All of the sudden I was not so much in awe of her but found myself empathizing with her.

Michele Jennae

#20. Believe in yourself and the beauty of your dreams.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. I know how mirrors work. They're all in league with the cosmetics trade. They tell a woman lies. Drawing her gaze from one imagined flaw to another, until all she sees is a constellation of imperfections. If you could get outside yourself, borrow my eyes for just an instant ... There is only beauty.

Tessa Dare

#22. Forgive me, Bertrand, for having on that day loved in you a beauty in which your self-esteem could take no pride, which could not in any way determine my affection.

Marcel Proust

#23. Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they will be, as they have been, twice as good.

Naomi Wolf

#24. Do you love yourself? The test is simple. Do you look at others and see anything besides another beautiful human being? Do you see somebody who is more beautiful or less beautiful than you? If so, look down a little deeper and ask yourself why. It may be painful. The whys usually are. Do it anyway.

Dan Pearce

#25. The stronger that women grow, the more prestige, fame, and money is accorded to the display professions: They are held higher and higher above the heads of rising women, for them to emulate.

Naomi Wolf

#26. I no longer needed to peel myself of my skin, or to hide. To Dash the colorless ephemeral things that existed just beneath my surface were as vivid as the beauty marks he traced on my cheek.

Aspen Matis

#27. Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

Jerome

#28. At the core of your heart, you are perfect and pure. No one and nothing can alter that.

Amit Ray

#29. If only you could see the greatness in yourself, you wouldn't envy the greatness in others.

Suzy Kassem

#30. Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.

Naomi Wolf

#31. For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms.

Anne Lamott

#32. Why live in fear that he might find me disgusting someday, when I could make it happen right now?

Rachel Hartman

#33. As we open our hearts to others, we begin to discover the truth of our own inner beauty, inner strength and inner light.

Susan Jeffers

#34. I'm still trying to defog the bathroom mirror to see the dream for what it clearly is.

From A Wildflower

#35. Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her "Health": if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn angrily upon this aspect of the beauty myth.

Naomi Wolf

#36. Things that are attached to the body do not just add beauty to the body or probably enhances the self confidence of the man within, but they are also the very reasons for pride and excessive self confidence

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#37. Self-worth takes you further than net worth.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#38. Beauty is nothing without brains & heart.

Karen Salmansohn

#39. Mastery over the body - its impulses, its needs, its size - is paramount; to lose control is to risk beauty, and to risk beauty is to risk desirability, and to risk desirability is to risk entitlement to sexuality and love and self-esteem.

Caroline Knapp

#40. The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were pretty would make you so.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#41. Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

George Santayana

#42. The only two words you should ever say to a mirror are "Hello, Beautiful.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#43. You agree - I'm sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for.

Agatha Christie

#44. Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.

Naomi Wolf

#45. Stop making someone else's looks your "#goals". By all means aspire to be a better version of your current self, but don't glorify others when you yourself are glorious.

Miya Yamanouchi

#46. Who would you impress if the world was blind?

Shannon L. Alder

#47. Style comes from knowing who you are and who you want to be in the world; it does not come from wanting to be somebody else, or wanting to be thinner, shorter, taller, prettier.

Nina Garcia

#48. Today a woman must ignore her reflection in the eyes of her lover, since he might admire her, and seek it in the gaze of the God of Beauty, in whose perception she is never complete.

Naomi Wolf

#49. When we feel that all eyes are upon on us, it is often difficult
to take chances in expressing our individuality.

Bobbi Brown

#50. 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

#51. The most empowering, important belief is the belief in yourself, your capabilities, your strength, your choice, and your most infinite, most divine, most beautiful worth.

Connie Kerbs