Quotes About Low Esteem

#1. The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means to his ends or does not acknowledge them at all.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#3. People who are seriously damaged by sudden fame and notoriety have, in my experience, very low esteem at the root of their being.

Roger Lloyd-Pack

#4. He had conceded in a panic - for it crushed Nilssen's spirit to be held in low esteem by other men. He could not bear to know that he was disliked, for to him there was no real difference between being disliked, and being dislikeable; every injury he sustained was an injury to his very selfhood.

Eleanor Catton

#5. 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

#6. Always remember, no matter how big you get in life, God is still bigger; when you feel to be at your lowest point, Satan is still at the bottom.

Anthony Liccione

#7. I'm just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.

Al Yankovic

#8. 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

#9. Being born was the worse and the first mistake I ever made. The doctor didn't spank me, he just slapped me in the face.

Dolly Parton

#10. I've got the girl disease. Low self-esteem. We give it to each other. It's a thing.

Marata Eros

#11. Over Thinking can be extremely destructive, and may often be a sign of low confidence or low self-esteem.

Barbara Gain

#12. Put on your lips success creeds every day. Never see yourself as an unworthy being, incapable of receiving good gifts from God.

Israelmore Ayivor

#13. An external locus of identity is unhealthy and yet the very thing that social media encourages in those with low self-esteem.

Sam Owen

#14. I looked in the mirror at my pigeon chest, I had to put my clothes on cause it made me depressed.

Ray Davies

#15. To be an actor, a lot of times it's a strange combination of high confidence and low self-esteem. Which is a weird combination to have, but I think it's sort of very common among actors.

Kurt Fuller

#16. I've been looking for a savior in these dirty streets, looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets.

Tori Amos

#17. Negative emotions, such as the feelings of hatred, meanness, low self-esteem and confidence, and pessimism, create an unpleasant person and a bleak destiny.

Auliq Ice

#18. It is crucial for us to understand the origins of our low self-esteem before we can transcend it.

Kevin Solomons

#19. I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.

James Taylor

#20. Mirror that lies, mirror that lies, that can't be me in the gorilla disguise.

Jimmy Buffett

#21. Now all that's left of me, is what I pretend to be. So together, but so broken up inside.

Kelly Clarkson

#22. Honey, lately your low self-esteem is just good common sense

James L. Brooks

#23. low income does not mean low expectations

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#24. 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

#25. Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-brake on.

Maxwell Maltz

#26. They think their Mercedes makes them a better person, when - to us - it's just an indication of low self-esteem.

Alessandra Torre

#27. 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

#28. Sometimes I almost feel just like a human being.

Elvis Costello

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. When a woman has not received much flattery in her life, she will be seduced.

Melina Marchetta

#32. I wanna be with you, if only for a night to be the one who's in your arms to hold you tight. I wanna be with you, there's nothing left to say.

Mandy Moore

#33. Every chance you get you seem to hurt me more and more, but each hurt makes my love stronger than before.

Marvin Gaye

#34. 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

#35. You cannot fix, nor are you responsible for another persons low self esteem

Renae A. Sauter

#36. Depression can be a form of self hatred. We don't feel comfortable in our own skin.

Michele McKnight Baker

#37. Both low self-esteem and pride are horrible nuisances to our own future and to everyone around us.

Timothy Keller

#38. I'm so afraid to love you, but more afraid to lose. Clinging to a past that doesn't let me chose.

Sarah McLachlan

#39. ... in some sense, she ignored her physical self, as if her body were merely something impersonal vehicle for moving around in. She seemed not to notice or care much what she wore or what she looked like.

Carol Lee

#40. A low self-image is usually not based upon facts; it's mismanaged memory.

Orrin Woodward

#41. 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

#42. As you tumble to the ground, pick me up on your way down.

Charlie Walker

#43. Secondly, if we continue to view ourselves as moral lepers and spiritual failures, if our lives are shadowed by low self-esteem, shame, remorse, unhealthy guilt, and self-hatred, we reject the teaching of Jesus and cling to our negative self-image. In

Brennan Manning

#44. Low self-esteem is not possible when you understand the nature of everything. Depression is not possible. The universe is absolutely friendly.

Byron Katie

#45. It seems to be a common denominator with a lot of comics, this low self-esteem thing.

Ray Romano

#46. If you have a smothering parent, the effect it can apparently have on a child is to give them, in equal doses, a sense of too much self-esteem, because they are mummy's little princess or prince, and low self-esteem. It affects future relationships.

Hugh Grant

#47. 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

#48. What kind of people are these with such low self-esteem that they need a war to feel better about themselves?

Bill Hicks

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. It's when you feel low about yourself, others actions and opinions will affect you. When you look at yourself as a confident person, it's then; you'll find the most peace and understanding, that it's your world you have to live with not theirs.

Ron Baratono

#52. When this low self-worth is hidden, one can understand why the person becomes hypersensitive to the opinions of others and has a great deal of difficulty accepting criticism no matter how warranted or gently said.

David W. Earle

#53. Many of us harbor hidden low self-esteem. We deem everything and everyone more important that ourselves and think that meeting their needs is more important than meeting our own. But if you run out of gas, everyone riding with you will be left stranded.

T.D. Jakes

#54. People with low self-esteem fear love. (Yep. Psychology degree rears its head again.) They doubt another person's ability to appreciate them, because they don't see the worth in themselves.

Kylie Scott

#55. I grew up with low self-esteem. I didn't think I was very pretty. I had glasses, red hair and was generally quite a spod.

Mark Gatiss

#56. All my life I've always been so blue, born to lose, and now I'm losing you.

Ray Charles

#57. I have a 15-year-old daughter who thinks that I always had this self confidence that I have now at the age of 60. And I always tell her that what she is going through - the low self-esteem as a teenager - that is a right of passage.

Iman

#58. For many introverts like David, adolescence is the great stumbling place, the dark and tangled thicket of low self-esteem and social unease. In middle and high school, the main currency is vivacity and gregariousness; attributes like depth and sensitivity don't count for much.

Susan Cain

#59. A high self-esteem having artist works hard to be understood. A low self-esteem having artist works hard to be agreed with.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#60. The joke that you laid in the bed that was me.

Alanis Morissette

#61. A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem.

Naomi Wolf

#62. Many consumerist economies stay afloat by manipulating the low self-esteem of their consumers and by creating spiritual expectations through material means.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#63. 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

#64. Socialism is, among other things, the political habitat of low self-esteem, incompetence, self-loathing, and a willingness to steal - or have stolen for you what you are unable or unwilling to work for. Socialism is a philosophy fit only for slugs, leaches, and mosquitoes.

L. Neil Smith

#65. Go try your charming act on some tramp with low self-esteem, because I'm not falling for it.

Kody Keplinger

#66. If you won't leave me, I'll find someone who will.

Warren Zevon

#67. 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

#68. While we are in recovery we need to be able to strike a balance between not allowing our ego to do all the talking and not letting our low self-esteem to only present what is wrong with us.

Noah Levine

#69. Although my marriage left me with three beautiful children, it also left me with a healthy dose of self-doubt, low self-esteem, and an extreme desire to be loved again. I was operating on empty, expecting to be paid in full.

Niecy Nash

#70. I just want you inside, baby, we don't need to talk about promises.

Janet Jackson

#71. 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

#72. Low self-esteem cannot take anyone to high places.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#73. Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself.

Anthony Trollope

#74. Too much to ask for may leave me feeling lonely. Too little leaves me nothing.

Lisa Loeb

#75. Proud to steal her anything she sees, but you will wind up peeking through her key hole down upon your knees.

Bob Dylan

#76. The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams from generation to generation. We all bear the cost of keeping it running. Illiteracy is its linchpin.

Carl Sagan

#77. It's been said that alcoholics are egomaniacs with low self -esteem. It's the prefect description. Being larger than life and yet your pride is crushed with self- loathing.

Gary Oldman

#78. Complexes can be the feelings of guilt, a victim complex, and fear of failure, criticism, poverty, and loneliness, loss of love, success, insecurity, denial, and low self-esteem

Sunday Adelaja

#79. I've had a lot of practice and wrong's what I do best.

George Jones

#80. I am the assasin of my dreams.

Henry Rollins

#81. 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

#82. I never had a low self-esteem that would make me gay. At one point, though, the reverse happened. Being homosexual led me to have a loss of self-esteem when I first became aware of society's attitudes about homosexuality.

Aaron Fricke

#83. I leaned down, grabbing his face and pulling it to mine, letting myself kiss him with every failed hope, lost dream, every frustrated moment of low self-esteem, every hidden, dark, secret, shameful thing. I kissed him like therapy. Like I could pour it all into him and finally be free.

Jessica Gadziala

#84. Insecure people only eclipse your sun because they're jealous of your daylight and tired of their dark, starless nights.

Shannon L. Alder

#85. The self-esteem of psychiatry got very low as a result of it. It had never really been accepted as part of medicine because the diagnoses were so unreliable, and the Rosenhan experiment confirmed it." Spitzer's

Jon Ronson

#86. Why stay with him, he uses you just like a human punching bag?

Ray Davies

#87. We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice.

Maxwell Maltz

#88. I admit I'm a fool for you, because your mine, I walk the line.

Johnny Cash

#89. Never rate yourself too low; you will be whoever you think you can be provided you are willing to pay the price!

Israelmore Ayivor

#90. You can knock me down, step on my face, slander my name all over the place. Do anything that you want to do, but uh-oh, honey, lay off of my shoes.

Carl Perkins

#91. Low self esteem is rooted in many things. One of them is not spending time to appreciate the gifts we've been given.

Nouman Ali Khan

#92. Materialism takes root in early childhood, and is driven mainly by low self-esteem.

Richard Wiseman

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

Steve Ilg

#94. Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.

William Gibson

#95. When self-esteem is low, we are often manipulated by fear ... We live more to avoid pain than to experience joy.

Nathaniel Branden

#96. I had my doubts at first. You were an out-of-shape man with low self-esteem and underdeveloped social skills. Now you are an in-shape man with low self-esteem and underdeveloped social skills.

Wesley Chu

#97. 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

#98. He was forceful, domineering, and supremely sure of himself. When you have low self-esteem, as I did, those qualities are attractive.

Anderson Cooper

#99. Unhealthy eating habits cause major health problems, such as diabetes and heart disease, and can also lead to food insecurity, disrupted eating patterns, and low self-esteem.

Matt Cartwright

#100. 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