Self-esteem Quotes - page 3

Your self-esteem won't come from body parts. You need to step away from the mirror every once in a while, and look for another reflection, like the one in the eyes of the people who love you and admire you. (Stacy London)
Since the State thrives on what it expropriates, the general decline in production that it induces by its avarice foretells its own doom. Its source of income dries up. Thus, in pulling Society down it pulls itself down. Its ultimate collapse is usually occasioned by a disastrous war, but preceding that event is a history of increasing and discouraging levies on the marketplace, causing a decline in the aspirations, hopes, and self-esteem of its victims. View quote
Frank Chodorov
Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf. View quote
Alice S Rossi
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!' View quote
Anna Chlumsky
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. View quote
Anne-Marie Slaughter
When you lose your hair, it has an impact on confidence and your overall self-esteem whether it affects your career or your love life. View quote
Bill Rancic
Cherish believes that God made her with a special purpose. Like any teenage girl, she has her insecurities, but for the most part she has a real healthy self-esteem. View quote
Charlene Tilton
You can't compare an apple to an orange. It will cause a lot of self-esteem issues. View quote
Craig Sheffer
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. View quote
Carolyn Mackler
Experts say that if children can't read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more likely to enter the juvenile justice system. View quote
Dirk Kempthorne
My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school. (Elinor Lipman)
It was something she didn't want me to do because she thought the rejection would ruin my self-esteem. My father was, like, 'If she wants to try it, let her try it.' View quote
Ellen Muth
Well, we all know that self-esteem comes from what you think of you, not what other people think of you. View quote
Gloria Gaynor
People always want to ask me about my drug problem - I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem problem! View quote
Gloria Gaynor
I had low self-esteem. View quote
Jennifer O'Neill
I've suffered from low self-esteem. View quote
Ken Kercheval
I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid. View quote
Katey Sagal
I don't think I am narcissistic. I think I have low self-esteem. View quote
Lorraine Bracco
Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness. View quote
Louise Hart
I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power. View quote
Paul Wellstone
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)
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. View quote
Stone Gossard
When I was 19 years old, I came down with anorexia. I had it for about a year before it became public. And it had a lot to do with my self-esteem. View quote
Tracey Gold
I did some pretty embarrassing modeling, like catalogs and QVC. I know there's probably a stereotype where all pretty girls think they're unattractive, but modeling is the worst thing for your self-esteem, because you're never pretty enough, you're never thin enough. View quote
Whitney Cummings
An evolving discipline–whether it be history or economics or astrophysics or immunology–is ever dynamically changing. Two steps forward and X steps back, so to speak. Periodically, the scholarly group registers more or less self-confidence, self-esteem, and complacency. We careerists are happiest when recent past achievements have seemed to be successful, but when still there are completable tasks dimly visible ahead. View quote
Paul Samuelson