Top 100 Quotes About Good Self Esteem
#1. So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they're already met?
Bill Watterson
#2. Rejection is a big part of show business. It can be tough on anyone who doesn't have fairly good self-esteem. Especially kids, as they try to discover who they are.
Angela Cartwright
#3. Individuals with a good self esteem can accept or reject the opinions of others, but never depend on them for their sense of worthiness.
Denis Waitley
#4. If you have a good self-esteem, you can be generous, you can give back and you can be productive in the world.
Deborra-Lee Furness
#5. As most of us know, the proper attitude toward ourselves is called "good self-esteem." But self-esteem is
an art. An art of balance. A balance between thinking too little of ourselves, and thinking too much of
ourselves.
The name for thinking too much of ourselves is "egotism.
Richard N. Bolles
#6. When we achieve our goal we are satisfied and build a good self-esteem
Sunday Adelaja
#7. Brazilians need to work on their own national pride. I always think that they suffer from national low-self esteem. It's a lesser-developed country, and they have struggled so much. Sometimes they have an attitude that, if it's Brazilian, it can't be good.
Amy Irving
#8. I'm just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.
Al Yankovic
#9. 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
#10. Put on your lips success creeds every day. Never see yourself as an unworthy being, incapable of receiving good gifts from God.
Israelmore Ayivor
#11. I live near a remedial school. There is a sign that says, slow ... children. That can't be good for their self esteem. But look of course on the positive side, they can't read it.
Jimmy Carr
#13. Surely a good therapist should produce a Dorian Gray-style portrait from under the couch so the patient can see the person they really are.
Rosamund Lupton
#15. I can be a rock star with a television show and still have a self-esteem problem. So it's nice to have your dad go, 'Hey Melissa, I'm proud of you - you're doing good.'
Melissa Etheridge
#16. Honey, lately your low self-esteem is just good common sense
James L. Brooks
#17. Groveling for connection from someone who compares you to Hitler is not good for a person's self-esteem.
Amy Dickinson
#18. Good! Hang in there! It's normal! [Low self-esteem] Often it's a sign of intelligence (but don't let that go to your head haha)
Patrick Stump
#19. Self-esteem is an essential psychological need - no one can live with the conviction that they are fundamentally no good, so people who lack the real thing attempt to fake it.
Edwin A. Locke
#20. You're a no good heartbreaker, you're a liar, and you're a cheat. I don't know why I let you do these things to me.
Aretha Franklin
#21. I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.
Tom Petty
#22. I'm not a good kid. Yeah, look, I'm just a piece of paper with the word sad and a bunch of cuss words written on it.
A lousy piece of paper. That's me.
A piece of paper that's waiting to be torn up.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#23. Good for you and be proud of yourself because you have your priorities in order. Be proud of yourself if you are responsible, reliable, persistent, and take your job and education seriously.
Ana Monnar
#24. Women with low self-esteem love bad boys. Women who have work to do love bad boys. Women who love themselves love good men.
Tracy McMillan
#25. Worth is not something you can buy for $39.99, nor something you can lose with 10 extra pounds. Self-judging people make good consumers. Start a revolution. Love yourself.
Vironika Tugaleva
#26. Your opinions about me does not change who I am. I am God's special possession.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#27. 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
#28. It's not about eating healthy to lose weight. It's about eating healthy to feel good.
Demi Lovato
#29. I have low self-esteem and I always have. Guys always cheated on me with women who were European-looking. You know, the long-hair type. Really beautiful women that left me thinking, 'How I can I compete with that?' Being a regular black girl wasn't good enough.
Lil' Kim
#30. That kid who lives in the projects, he has a self-esteem problem - everybody looks down on him. He may be a good kid, but other parents don't want their kids to be with them because percentages say they could be bad. I went through a lot of that.
Kenny Troutt
#31. Self-esteem is directly linked to deserving success. You must deserve victory to feel good about yourself.
Rick Pitino
#32. Increasing your self-esteem is easy. Simply do good things and remember that you did them.
Roger Delano Hinkins
#33. As a youth, I hated myself for not being good enough. All my inadequacies and failures, not being kind enough, generous or understanding enough, would assail me at night. It became a habit to be guilty and self castigating, not liking myself because I was unworthy ... I really tortured myself.
Mira Sorvino
#35. The purpose of school is for children to learn, not for them to feel good about themselves all the time.
Jean M. Twenge
#36. 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
#37. You're as good as anyone else is, if you're good. You're no less important than anyone else is in the grand scope of things.
Donny Osmond
#38. And that's when I get to wondering, what would happen if I told her she something good, ever day?
Kathryn Stockett
#39. Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself.
Anthony Trollope
#40. A happy person with decent self-esteem wouldn't bother to have credentials as good as mine.
Mark Vonnegut
#41. 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
#42. What men call friendship is only social intercourse, an exchange of favours and good offices; it comes down to a commercial dealing in which self-esteem always expects to profit.
Andre Maurois
#43. A quality such as self-esteem is a result of practicing good human relations.
Robert Ringer
#44. We decided that humility was defined not by self-deprecating behavior or attitudes but by the esteem with which you regard others ... Generally, you can be humble only if you feel really good about yourself - and you want to help those around you feel really good about themselves, too.
Clayton Christensen
#45. A girl should want to look good for herself, not for boys.
Lisi Harrison
#46. But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked (Luke 6:35).
Michele Woolley
#47. 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
#48. Never chase a person that doesn't know your worth because the moment you catch him you will always feel you were never good enough.
Shannon L. Alder
#49. Perhaps self-esteem is just the sum of self-love and self-confidence. People with high self-esteem know they deserve a good life and that they can get almost everything they focus on!
Mika.
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. Positive self-esteem must be preceded by self-respect. To get self-respect you have to do something good.
Louis Zamperini
#53. Believe in yourself. Under-confidence leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy that you are not good enough for your work.
Roopleen
#54. While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.
Heinrich Heine
#55. The poorer your self-esteem and the lower your self-confidence, the more easily negative feelings can overwhelm ordinary good sense.
Julian Short
#56. You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks you're any good.
Dorianne Laux
#57. Round still, but that's fine.
Feeling good outside and in.
Maybe I'm not thin,
but skinny isn't perfect.
The perfect size is happy.
Nikki Grimes
#58. You have been "self-pitying" for long years now and things don't seem to improve. Just try a few days of good self-esteeming" and you'll see things taking a better shape!
Israelmore Ayivor
#59. Most of the people of this world are coated round and round with self-esteem, and they're afraid to admit any understanding of the things which aren't good.
Susan Glaspell
#60. People simply feel better about themselves when they're good at something.
Stephen R. Covey
#61. I think imperfections are important, just as mistakes are important. You only get to be good by making mistakes, and you only get to be real by being imperfect.
Julianne Moore
#62. 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
#63. A good run adds a little bounce to my step. I get a certain amount of self-esteem from it.
George W. Bush
#64. Never underestimate the power of temptation to disarm your better senses. Throughout the ages good people surrendered their honor for the empty promise that wealth or power would bring fulfillment and their dignity, good name and self-esteem for the passing pleasures of sex and drugs.
Michael Josephson
#65. 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
#66. There is graciousness and a kind of urbanity in beginning with men by esteem and confidence. It proves, at least, that we have long lived in good company with others and with our selves.
Joseph Joubert
#67. 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
#68. When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.
Jake Steinfeld
#69. 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
#70. I don't know why it is, exactly, but the people with the healthiest self-esteem, are also the greatest at intimacy. I'm not talking about arrogant people. I'm talking about people who know they are both good and bad yet believe at the deepest level they are really good for people.
Donald Miller
#71. Education does loads of things for girls that won't surprise you at all - it provides self-esteem, teaches important life skills, and offers the kinds of choices a good education can give anyone.
Richard E. Robbins
#72. Having a good belief system in yourself is so important for success and can help you in many ways. First thing a belief system accomplishes is that it builds your self-esteem. Knowledge
Brent R
#73. 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
#75. Are you ready?"
"To strip that dress off you."
God, he was good for her self-esteem. This guy would never choose TV and beer over her.
Ava Gray
#76. You can only feel love to the extent in which you love yourself. If you deficiently love yourself, you will never believe that another person could truly love you. If you overly love yourself, no one's love will be good enough, and the world will seem pale and cold.
Michael Brent Jones
#77. Both of my girls have very high self-esteem because they were both able to master certain things; I should think that's good for their confidence.
Amy Chua
#78. A woman has her needs. What good is a mother to her poor children if she's suffering from low self-esteem and sexual frustration? If you don't get laid soon, you will literally close up. More importantly, you will shrivel. And you will become bitter.
Helen Fielding
#79. Perfectionism is searching for faults to justify low self-esteem. It is a guaranteed failure and fantasy.
Brittany Burgunder
#80. I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good ... Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.
Jay Leno
#81. What provokes particular outrage and ridicule is the idea that children might feel good about themselves in the absence of impressive accomplishments, even though, as I'll show, studies find that unconditional self-esteem is a key component of psychological health.
Alfie Kohn
#82. 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
#83. I couldn't help wondering what it was that made me not good enough. It was a familiar feeling. I'd had it off and on my entire life.
Drew Nellins Smith
#84. What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island?
Wyndham Lewis
#86. What good is any feeling we may have about ourselves, if it only lasts as long as others agree to it?
Guy Finley
#87. [L]et us talk about the unholy vice of self-esteem, the beginning and completion of the passions; and let us talk briefly, for to undertake an exhaustive discussion would be to act like someone who inquires into the weight of the winds.
John Climacus
#88. Beliefs that are good promote your potential and enhance your unique special qualities.
Deborah Day
#89. Being a vegan just helps me build up my self-esteem. I feel good about it every time I eat a meal.
Steve-O
#90. Real self-worth comes from mastery, from getting good at something. It doesn't matter what. Then you don't have to worry about empty compliments. You don't worry about what other people think. You have self-respect.
Albert Borris
#92. Good-bye, self-esteem and fuzzy feelings. It was so nice to make your acquaintance.
T.J. Klune
#93. If you were listening to the hypnotic voice of your Source, you'd be constantly hearing the drum beating that says, 'You are loved, and you are worthy, and you are valued and life is supposed to be good for you. You are worthy, you are valued, you are loved and life is supposed to be good for you.'
Esther Hicks
#94. Looking for honest ways to lift one another would ... be more beneficial to our own self-esteem, for we would see more good in ourselves. We would cease to be so critical of our weaknesses and would find ways to allow our weaknesses to become strengths with God's help.
Neal A. Maxwell
#95. When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.
Abraham Maslow
#96. These games inspire laughter, spontaneity, ensemble building, physical and vocal expression, concentration, self-discovery/reflection, self-esteem, and, ultimately, I believe, good health. They get adults, and teenagers too, playing again, which is no small feat.
Hannah Fox
#97. Your choices have psychological consequences. The way you choose to deal with reality, truth, facts - your choice to honor or dishonor your own perceptions - registers in your mind, for good or for bad, and either confirms and strengthens your self-esteem or undermines and weakens it.
Nathaniel Branden
#99. Many people can't sing their praise or feel proud of themselves in front of others because they are scared to be labelled as 'arrogant' or 'big-headed'. Social acceptance is more important than self-esteem in the 21st century - and that's not good.
Maddy Malhotra
#100. Saying thanks to the world, and acknowledging your own accomplishments, is a great way to feel good and stay positive.
Rachel Robins
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