Quotes About Lack Of Self Esteem

#1. Lack of self-esteem is what causes wars because people who really love themselves don't go out and try to fight other people ... It's the root of all the problems.

Oprah Winfrey

#2. There are studies that tell us that stress and lack of self-image, lack of self-esteem, severe dieting, binge dieting and binge eating can also be very damaging to a body and bring on various kinds of abnormalities.

Leonard Nimoy

#3. You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.

Ram Dass

#4. The damage that most people suffer, through the process we refer to as childhood, is from a lack of self-esteem. It's by far the most dangerous epidemic among us.

Erik Valeur

#5. The recurring theme which predisposes people to depression is rejection and lack of self-esteem.

Richard Winters

#6. India.. a perfectly wonderful country, may have been motivated by a lack of self-esteem.

William J. Clinton

#7. You cannot be diminished by what other people think of you. Your value is infinite and absolute. It does not change. What other people think of you is irrelevant.

Kimberly Giles

#8. Intention of seeking attention is an addiction. A vicious cycle which damages your health, finances and relationships. It will NOT improve your self-image, increase your self-worth or fulfill the need of genuine praise.

Maddy Malhotra

#9. I am not plain, but I don't think anyone is ever going to call me beautiful. I don't have that graceful thing going on.

Jojo Moyes

#10. Most of my central characters lack confidence but overcome their timidity or low self-esteem to win through in the end, so I suppose there is a kind of wish-fulfillment at work.

Geraldine McCaughrean

#11. When you love yourself you will never need closure from any man. That doesn't mean you didn't love him, it simply means you love yourself enough to realize God has a better plan for you that doesn't involve one more conversation that will remind you of that person's lack of respect for you.

Shannon L. Alder

#12. I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don't believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view.

Douglas Adams

#13. Ego means lack of self respect

Dinkar Kalotra

#14. 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

#15. Everyone says I remind them of a moose,just because my nose is so big.

Genevieve Cortese

#16. Folks fall down all the time.. The key is to get back up ASAP

Sereda Aleta Dailey

#17. Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.

Stephen Covey

#18. Who lack self-esteem are lost. I was determined never to relinquish my ...

Demi Moore

#19. Poor Nate was always on the verge of saying how he really felt, but he didn't want to make a scene or say something he might regret later. Instead, he kept quiet and let other people steer the boat, while he laid back and enjoyed the steady rocking of the waves.

Cecily Von Ziegesar

#20. The reason that the little things are more important than the big ones, turns out to be very simple: one can fake the big things in one's behaviour, but not the little things. The little things lack the three "f's": feigning, fabrication, fakeness. Plus the most important "c": contrivance.

Nicos Hadjicostis

#21. The least lack of discipline starts to erode our self-esteem.

Jim Rohn

#22. Putting someone down with name calling reveals your own low self-esteem.

Stephen Richards

#23. People are perfectly capable of giving love even if they feel less confident about themselves.

Anna Agoncillo

#24. Self-esteem is the result of recognizing our personal power; awe and wonder come from recognizing our lack of it. Both are true, and in an exceptional life there is no conflict between them.

Victoria Moran

#25. Lack of Confidence, low Self-Esteem, and depleted Mojo are symptoms of inadequate Strength Training.

Steve Ilg

#26. 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

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

Rachel Hartman

#28. 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

#29. When you lack self-esteem, people you encounter can feel it like an invisible barrier separating them from you; conversely, confidence helps people to feel connected to you.

Sam Owen

#30. When you lack self-esteem it's easy to keep attracting the wrong people into your life.

Sam Owen

#31. You are a fine piece of china. Don't let anyone treat you like a paper plate.

Karen Salmansohn

#32. Blaming others for your low self-esteem, for your lack of money, for being overweight, or for feeling bad, is NOT going to make your life better. Take responsibility. Work on it. The choice is yours.

Maddy Malhotra

#33. Never trust a person that doesn't trust you ... If they lack trust they don't have faith in you. If they lack faith then they don't esteem you highly. If they lack esteem for you than how can you expect them to treat you fairly?

Ana Marie Velazquez

#34. [T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.

Robert Burton

#35. Chastity by no means signifies rejection of human sexuality or lack of esteem for it: rather it signifies spiritual energy capable of defending love from the perils of selfishness and aggressiveness, and able to advance it towards its full realization.

Pope John Paul II

#36. The older I grow the less I esteem mere ideas. In politics, particularly, they are transient and unimportant ... There are only men who have character and men who lack it.

H.L. Mencken

#37. When we feel that we lack whatever is needed to secure someone else's esteem, we are very close to hating him

Luc De Clapiers

#38. If we lack either self-awareness or confidence in who we are, we run the risk of allowing others to define who we are or who we should be.

Lisa Locke

#39. It's not a lack of opportunity around me. Rather, it's a lack of faith within me.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#40. If you feel inadequate to face challenges, unworthy of love or respect, untitled to happiness, and fear assertive thought, wants, or needs- if you lack basic self trust, self-respect, and self-confidence- your self-esteem deficiency will limit you, no matter what other assets you possess.

Nathaniel Branden

#41. That's not me talking, it's your inner voice. I'd attempt the accent, only I don't speak low self-esteem. It's a language I've never needed to learn.

Sophie Hannah

#42. There is something really amazing about you.. Your unique ideas and thoughts that you bring to this world. Your smile, your laugh.. It's you and you are valuable, worthy and cherished..

Rachel Hamilton

#43. Never esteem people (including yourself) more because they have money, nor think less of anyone (including yourself) because they lack it. Virtue is the only just reason for respecting anyone, lack of virtue the only reason for holding anyone in low regard.

William Penn