Self Esteem Quotes

“I never loved another person the way I loved myself.”
― Mae West

“What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her "beauty" his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained no friend, no ally, no mutual trust: She knows quite well why she has been chosen. He has succeeded in buying something: the esteem of other men who find such an acquisition impressive.”
― Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

“Love me or hate me, i swear it won't make or break me.”
― Lil Wayne

“You are not what others think you are. You are what God knows you are.”
― Shannon Alder

“Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”
― LOUISE L. HAY, You Can Heal Your Life

“I don't entirely approve of some of the things I have done, or am, or have been. But I'm me. God knows, I'm me.”
― Elizabeth Taylor

“Don't try to fix me, I'm not broken...”
― Evanescence

“With emotional abuse, the insults, insinuations, criticism, and accusations slowly eat away at the victim’s self-esteem until he or she is incapable of judging a situation realistically. He or she may begin to believe that there is something wrong with them or even fear they are losing their mind. They have become so beaten down emotionally that they blame themselves for the abuse.”
― Beverly Engel, The Emotionally Abusive Relationship: How to Stop Being Abused and How to Stop Abusing

“I've wasted a lot of time in my life. I've thought too much about what people will say or what they're gonna think. And sometimes it's over silly things like going to the grocery store or going to the post office. But there have been times when I really stopped myself from doing something special. All because I was scared someone might look at me and decide I wasn't good enough. But you don't have to bother with that nonsense. I wasted all that time so you don't have to.”
― Julie Murphy, Dumplin'

“The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.”
― Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

“We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty.”
― Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

“I am sure it is everyone’s experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious recognition of something, which we really knew all the time but, because we were unwilling to formulate it correctly, we did not hitherto know we knew.”
― W.H. Auden, Markings: Spiritual Poems and Meditations

“At the core of your heart, you are perfect and pure. No one and nothing can alter that.”
― Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations

“Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine.”
― Sarah Dessen, Keeping the Moon

“It’s hard to feel desire when you don’t feel desirable”
― Christine Feehan, Safe Harbor

“You've been criticising yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”
― Louise Hay

“Write it on your heart you are the most beautiful soul of the Universe. Realize it, honor it and celebrate the life.”
― Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power

“You were not meant for a mundane or mediocre life!”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“I'm not a wannabe. I'm who I wannabe.”
― Hawk Nelson

“Forget about self-image and self-judgment. It's about self-love, and no one teaches you that at school. No one teaches you that if you accept and love yourself, nothing and no one can touch you.
This is the only face and body you're ever going to get, so be comfortable and happy in it. Own it. Own every aspect of who you are and present it to the world with the utmost pride.”
― Connor Franta, A Work in Progress

“We do not have to spend money and go hungry and struggle and study to become sensual; we always were. We need not believe we must somehow earn good erotic care; we always deserved it.

Femaleness and its sexuality are beautiful. Women have long secretly suspected as much. In that sexuality, women are physically beautiful already; superb; breathtaking.

Many, many men see this way too. A man who wants to define himself as a real lover of women admires what shows of her past on a woman's face, before she ever saw him, and the adventures and stresses that her body has undergone, the scars of trauma, the changes of childbirth, her distinguishing characteristics, the light is her expression. The number of men who already see in this way is far greater than the arbiters of mass culture would lead us to believe, since the story they need to tell ends with the opposite moral.”
― Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

“We are exactly what our history made us to be.”
― Stephen Richards, Boost Your Self Esteem

“Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.”
― Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

“When you lose your ego, you win. It really is that simple.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“If a guy can't even handle my words, I don't think he can handle me as a person.”
― Anna Bayes, Snug Fit

“There's always this one girl. She's desperate and she's weird and she's jealous, and you're stuck with her, no matter how hard you try to get her off your back. Just throw some really fucked-up self-esteem issues into the mix and you have Kara.”
― Courtney Summers, Some Girls Are

“The moment you have to recruit people to put another person down, in order to convince someone of your value is the day you dishonor your children, your parents and your God. If someone doesn't see your worth the problem is them, not people outside your relationship.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“What we perceive about ourselves is greatly a reflection of how we will end up living our lives.”
― Stephen Richards, Boost Your Self Esteem

“The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters.”
― Stefan Molyneux