Top 100 My Self Esteem Quotes
#1. I've never disliked myself, and my weight has had nothing to do with my self-esteem.
Dawn French
#2. It's flattering that people think I'm sexy, but it's not the end-all, be-all. The minute I put my self-esteem on what they think I am, I'm screwed, because one day they're not going to think I'm sexy.
Eva Mendes
#3. I was just starting out, trying to become a screenwriter, and I became the Austin slam champion three times. For a nerdy, kind of a socially awkward guy, that did wonders for my self esteem.
Ernest Cline
#4. It's always at the back of my mind that acting might come to an end for me when Harry Potter finishes. I don't know if I'm good enough to have a long career. I've got a bit of an inferiority complex about my acting. My self-esteem is quite low in that sense.
Rupert Grint
#5. The thing I'm most proud of is that I've raised a lot of money for certain charities - breast cancer and the Caldecott Foundation and the NSPCC. But as far as my self-esteem is concerned, doing 'The Graduate' for 11 months was fantastic.
Jerry Hall
#6. I had wasted my life in the pursuit of a career, romance, financial independence and the best heels in town when it seems I could have done more for my self esteem with a .38 calibre handgun
Tyne O'Connell
#7. That's like the fourth time I've been called a women in this past hour. It's really starting to boost my self-esteem.
Drew Chadwick
#8. 'My self-esteem,' 'my self-this,' 'my self-that.' Believe me, I've been there - I'm an actress. At one point, you just get nauseous with it and think, 'I have to take my mind off myself!'
Raquel Welch
#9. I do not want to give my power, my self-esteem, or my autonomy, to any person, place, or thing outside myself. [ ... ] The only thing that matters is how I feel about myself, my personal integrity, and my relationship with my Creator.
Ashley Judd
#10. I work out all the time. Cardio, resistance and a lot of jogging. I love to go hiking. I'm going to invest this in myself, into my self-worth, into my self-esteem.
Fergie
#11. I could let these dream killers kill my self-esteem,
Or use my arrogance as the steam to power my dreams.
I use it as my gas, so they say that I'm gassed,
But without it I'd be last, so I ought to laugh ...
Kanye West
#12. My self-wroth is not linked to your cruel words and actions.
My self-esteem is not affected by your deliberate attempts to destroy my character.
You have no power over me.
You will not silence me.
Marina Cohen
#13. I had just started ninth grade when I got my acne. And I had braces. I wouldn't look people in the eye. It was not a good time for me - it just killed my self-esteem. I thought when I didn't look at someone, they couldn't see my face.
Kendall Jenner
#14. So I went to a club the other day, which is timely because my self esteem had been hovering right around 'normal' and I had been meaning to knock it down to negative 1000.
Mike Birbiglia
#15. We mustn't leave Seth and the house unguarded," Coulter said. "Unguarded?" Seth complained. "Are you trying to destroy my self-esteem?
Brandon Mull
#16. In putting everyone else down, I am raising myself up ... and this will continue until my self-esteem rises. I have just sorted out the mystery of why I am always putting down everybody else's artwork.
Jim Rowe
#17. I have had the experience common to many women, of needing to define myself and to find my self-esteem as a person, not simply as somebody's wife or mother.
Hazel Hawke
#18. I was called fat and ugly in the press almost my entire life. I understand that being judged by others comes with the territory, but it broke my heart and ruined my self-esteem.
Kelly Osbourne
#19. Initially, my decision to stop eating meat was motivated by fear of spiritual consequences, but right away I found that not eating meat made me feel good about myself. It increased my self-esteem, which I found so rewarding, I wanted to do more.
Steve-O
#20. When I was a teenager, my self esteem was really low. But when I stood next to Yunho and his crooked teeth, I felt better.
Jaejoong
#21. Prior to being bullied, I was a very footloose sixth-grader. You know, I was quirky, I was creative - I really felt good in my own body. And when I was bullied in seventh grade, my self-esteem tanked.
Carolyn Mackler
#22. I do not care to listen; obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise.
Jack Vance
#23. It was something she didn't want me to do because she thought the rejection would ruin my self-esteem. My father was, like, 'If she wants to try it, let her try it.'
Ellen Muth
#24. I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid.
Katey Sagal
#25. There is nothing I need so much as nourishment for my Self Esteem
Alfred Lunt
#26. I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all.
Queen Latifah
#27. 'Showgirls' was a critical point in my life. I had my head handed to me. At 21 years old, I had to find my self-esteem again. It was a very hard time.
Elizabeth Berkley
#28. Being a vegan just helps me build up my self-esteem. I feel good about it every time I eat a meal.
Steve-O
#29. My self-esteem had been crushed through years of childhood bullying and serious abuses, which would take me decades to overcome.
Bryant H. McGill
#31. I didn't have a job because nobody would hire me. My friends were getting hired, and I couldn't even get a job interview. That really rocked my self-esteem because I didn't understand what I did wrong on those job applications.
Tyra Banks
#32. 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
#33. It doesn't do my self-esteem much good though, does it?'
'Your self-esteem has had a lifetime of steady attention,' said Philippa abstractedly.
Dorothy Dunnett
#34. My pay check is important for my living, my self esteem is important to make me alive
Keerthi Singhe
#35. My family has reduced the effect of my career on my self-esteem. When I'm with them, they make me feel special regardless of how I play.
Phil Mickelson
#36. My father was Abe Burrows, who was a Broadway legend. 'Guys and Dolls,' 'How to Succeed,' 'Cactus Flower,' '40 Karats,' 'Can-Can,' 'Happy Hunting,' 'Reclining Figure,' it goes on. He was a legend, and when I was growing up, I was Abe Burrows' kid. That was my self-esteem.
James Burrows
#37. I put on a show of confidence as often as I could, but inside, I was a befuddled mess. I secretly wished my mother would live forever. - Merrick Delmar
Heidi Peltier
#38. There is no other company in the world I've found more pleasurable than my own. For no one else has ever been as accepting of me or as thoroughly entertained by my quirkiness. It is a sweet thing to like yourself.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#39. I want to be alone. Sympathies wasted on my hollow shell. I feel there's nothing left to fight for. No reason for a cause.
Sarah McLachlan
#40. Respect, reverence, self-esteem
Are my basic requisites
I refuse to be a competitor
Who struggles for personal rights
Balroop Singh
#42. I looked in the mirror at my pigeon chest, I had to put my clothes on cause it made me depressed.
Ray Davies
#43. My parents, my teachers, my friends, my ex-wife-everybody held up a mirror and I accepted the image that came back. Well, it finally dawned on me that my reflection in others' eyes was the truth once removed.
Richard Moran
#44. I know what it's like to sleep in fear, to starve myself to be worthy, to be ashamed of my voice, to want to sleep forever. To question why I deserve to live.
Anna White
#45. CG: WELCOME TO THE TROLLOCAUST. THE PAINSTAKING GENOCIDE OF YOUR FRAGILE SELF ESTEEM WILL BE MY SWAN SONG.
Andrew Hussie
#46. 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
#47. I had enormous self-image problems and very low self-esteem, which I hid behind obsessive writing and performing. It's exactly what I do now, except I enjoy it now. I'm not driven like I was in my twenties. I was driven to get through life very quickly.
David Bowie
#48. Every chance you get you seem to hurt me more and more, but each hurt makes my love stronger than before.
Marvin Gaye
#49. My grandma loved to be on stage entertaining people. She loves to make people smile and laugh. She loves to brighten other people's day. She often calls perfect strangers her angel, as a way of witnessing, but also to encourage and build their self-esteem.
Lisa Bedrick
#50. We come into this world alone. You're going to die alone. That's the way it is.
I think a really great interpretation of love is: feeling alone with someone else.
The times in my life, if you want to qualify as "being in love", when you feel almost like being alone with company.
Chris Evans
#52. I esteem my colleagues as I do my own self, I esteem them for two things: because they are able to find perfect felicity in specialized knowledge and because they are not apt to commit physical murder.
Vladimir Nabokov
#53. My coach knew there was only one way to develop (self esteem): You give children something they can't do, they work hard until they find they can do it, and you just keep repeating the process.
Randy Pausch
#55. 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
#56. Every major life decision I made came from my pain, guilt and shame...even down to the man I chose for a husband.
Elona Washington
#57. He's all smooth grace and sexy smiles, whereas I'm big haired, awkward and a touch frumpy. You may well roll your eyes at my low self-esteem. It's a condition for which there is no cure.
L. H. Cosway
#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. I feel bad about my deeper, underlying reasons for judging people with children. I judge them as a defense mechanism, because I am sad about my motivations for not having kids. I am self-centered and dysmorphic with low self-esteem.
Melissa Broder
#60. I struggled with self-esteem issues as a young girl, and it was not until my gymnastics career was completed in 2000 that I realized my accomplishments would not have been possible without my type of body, and I finally started to appreciate and celebrate myself.
Dominique Dawes
#61. I don't want someone to believe my lies, I need someone to accept my truths.
Kellie Elmore
#63. I always thought that people told you that you're beautiful-that this was a title that was bestowed upon you ... I think that it's time to take this power into our own hands and to say, "You know what? I'm beautiful. I just am. And that's my light. I'm just a beautiful woman."
Margaret Cho
#64. Do not worry, my sweet one. You have it within you to get yourself where you need to be.
Karen Salmansohn
#65. After an initial rush of pleasure that left me trembling with need, I broke off the heated kiss and whispered, "Okay, you win."
He leaned over me and said into my ear, "Dutch, I won the moment you crawled into bed."
He really did need to work on his self-esteem.
Darynda Jones
#66. In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.
Jane Haddam
#69. I lay my head on the railroad track, waitin' on the Double E. But the train don't run by here no more, poor, poor, pitiful me.
Warren Zevon
#70. Whenever I have faced a setback I have dusted myself down and got on with the rest of my life because I believed in myself.
Philip Green
#71. I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.
Madonna
#72. Through my pain and sorrow, God has prepared me to share His word with others in a way that was made just for me.
Latorria Freeman
#73. I will once again keep my eyes open to the changes so that I won't miss even a single spec of chance. Life is possible, believe it, LIFE'S POSSIBLE!
Mphezulu Xetho Dainamyk
#74. I may as well cut my losses and make a hasty exit while I still had enough self-esteem to walk upright. Crawling was so demoralizing
Darynda Jones
#75. I want to ask someone the truth, I think truth is what has been missing in my life. Well, it's one of the things that has been missing, along with a sense of purpose and positive self-esteem.
Susan Juby
#76. I believe with all my heart that the cliches are true, that we are our own best friends and best company, and that if you're not right for yourself, it's impossible to be right for anyone.
Rachel Machacek
#77. When I was a model, actually, for a little while, my friend that I worked with a lot, she had horrible self-esteem too. We decided that the exact moment when we actually thought we were attractive, we wouldn't be any more. We would just, like, miss it.
Geena Davis
#78. My dream is to make families a place where adults with high self esteem can develop. I think we have reached a point where if we don't get busy on dreams of this sort, our end is in sight. We need a world that is as good for human beings as it is for technology.
Virginia Satir
#79. 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
#80. I'll be a fool or a wiseman, my darling, you hold the key. Anyway you want me, that's how I will be.
Elvis Presley
#82. 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
#84. I'd lose weight if I was an actress and had to play a role where you're supposed to be 40 lbs lighter, but weight has nothing to do with my career. Even when I was signing a contract, most of the industry knew if anyone ever dared say lose weight to me, they wouldn't be working with me.
Adele
#86. Back to my childhood where those monsters reside. They snack on innocence and dine on self esteem.
Jimmy Buffett
#87. I used to be self conscious about my height, but then I thought, fuck that, I'm Harry Potter.
Daniel Radcliffe
#88. A good run adds a little bounce to my step. I get a certain amount of self-esteem from it.
George W. Bush
#89. 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
#90. I like eating fine foods and drinking nice wine. Even if I had a really good figure, I don't think I'd get my t**s and a** out for no one.
Adele
#91. My job as a coach isn't to 'fix' people it is to 'break' them and empower them to connect to their spirit and trust that they will be re-built into a new improved version given a little time and patience.
Rebecca O'Dwyer Centred Woman
#92. It horribly skews the meaning of the cross when contemporary prophets of self-esteem say that the cross is a witness to my infinite worth. The biblical perspective is that the cross in a witness to the infinite worth of God's glory, and a witness to the immensity of the sin of my pride.
John Piper
#93. My life got happier when I trusted my gut to tell me when to open the door or close the door. There is joy to be found in keeping away from people & situations which could harm my self-respect my peace my worth.
Karen Salmansohn
#94. I remembered learning from my favorite professor at Belmont to "surround yourself with people who are better than you," and I was now living that mantra.
Kimberly Novosel
#95. Working out is really the top thing in my life that I do for my own self-esteem and self-worth.
Fergie
#96. In the inner courtroom of my mind, mine is the only judgment that counts.
Nathaniel Branden
#97. My first strike was marrying a guy without a college degree. My second and third were getting pregnant. I suppose that when I didn't go on to become the next Gloria Allred, she was justified in counting me a failure. And I suppose that until now, I was justified in thinking that I wasn't one.
Jodi Picoult
#98. Self-esteem is a huge piece of my work. You have to believe it's possible and believe in yourself. Because after you've decided what you want, you have to believe it's possible, and possible for you, not just for other people. Then you need to seek out models, mentors, and coaches.
Jack Canfield
#99. I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.
Stefan Molyneux
#100. Yoga reduced my stress and bodily tension. It allowed me to bring my body back into balance, to emerge from my fertility struggle with my sense of self esteem and self worth intact, and to forge a stronger bond with my husband.
Brenda Strong
