Self Esteem Quotes - Page 18

She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.

I just think that whole culture of hatred, and also feeling like it's your right to judge people when you don't know them, is really f***ed up. So I'm pleased I experienced that side of it, so I can learn to be a better person on the other side of it. I'm sure in the past I've been judgmental too ... Self esteem, that's something you've got to work on yourself. I know for me it's different day to day.

Seriously, I do not think I am fit for the Presidency.

Women with low self-esteem love bad boys. Women who have work to do love bad boys. Women who love themselves love good men.

What is the most important thing one learns in school? Self-esteem, support, and friendship.

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.

The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is that they are sacrificing when they follow in a herd, or when they cater for their establishment.

If we do have realistic confidence in our mind and value, if we feel secure within ourselves, we tend to experience the world as open to us and to respond appropriately to challenges and opportunities.

The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women's advancement.

Contrary to popular thinking, being worthy isn't something you earn, it's something you recognize.

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

We are the hero of our own story.

It's such a profound alienation for a person not to be at home in their own body.

I've never felt a push to be stick thin. I work out and eat healthy, so mostly it's about being in shape and having energy.

A better you means a better universe.

If you're the greatest, it's okay to say you're the greatest. My suggestion to everybody is to be their own greatest fan. Weaker personas and personalities define that as egotistical or arrogant, but what it means is their self-esteem isn't that strong.

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.

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.

The picture you have of yourself, your self-esteem, will have a profound effect on the way you see the world and the way your world sees you.

Honor is self-esteem made visible in action.

The false pride of perennial celebration, of wearing flag lapel pins while betraying the values that the flag stands for, is like the self-esteem curriculum for toddlers, where everything is praised and no achievement ultimately has meaning.

The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation.

You are the most influential person you will talk to all day.