Self-esteem Quotes

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

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.

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!'

I think if you exercise, your state of mind - my state of mind - is usually more at ease, ready for more mental challenges. Once I get the physical stuff out of the way it always seems like I have more calmness and better self-esteem.

No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.

Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it's unbelievable!

To wake up in England and have the newspaper on your front door with a headline that says, 'Ozzie's Beach Whale of a Daughter,' doesn't really do much for your self-esteem at all.

People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem.

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.

Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.

Well, we all know that self-esteem comes from what you think of you, not what other people think of you.

I think family mealtime is really important. There's a lot of research that shows kids are going to do better in school and have more self-esteem if you can all sit down and eat together.

High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future; self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.

Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

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.

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.

I had low self-esteem. I just really wanted attention and love from somebody.

Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a child.

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.

I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.

Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf.

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.

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

I suffer the terrible disease of low self-esteem.

I like to work. The self-esteem and satisfaction that I get from working makes me a better person, which makes me a better mom. I feel lucky because I have the luxury of working only one or two days a week.

Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.