Quotes and Sayings About Self Esteem
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I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
-- A. C. Benson -
When we look at a child, we see that sense of fullness, of intrinsic aliveness, of joy in being, is not the result of something else. There is value in just being oneself, it is not because of something one does or doesn't do. It is there in the beginning, when we are children, but slowly it gets lost.
-- A. H. Almaas -
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 -
Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?
-- Abdul Kalam -
Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.
-- Aberjhani -
No psychological health is possible unless this essential care of the person is fundamentally accepted, loved and respected by others and by himself.
-- Abraham Maslow -
The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.
-- Abraham Maslow -
I've never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I'm very proud of that.
-- Adele -
I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.
-- Adele -
I'd lose weight if I was an actress and had to play a role where you're supposed to be 40 lbs lighter, but weight has nothing to do with my career. Even when I was signing a contract, most of the industry knew if anyone ever dared say lose weight to me, they wouldn't be working with me.
-- Adele -
The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I've always been a size 14 to 16, I don't care about clothes, I'd rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze.
-- Adele -
I don’t have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like
-- Adele -
I don't really need to stand out, there's room for everyone. Although I haven't built a niche yet, I'm just writing love songs.
-- Adele -
I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.
-- Adele -
I like eating fine foods and drinking nice wine. Even if I had a really good figure, I don't think I'd get my t**s and ***** out for no one.
-- Adele -
In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitely sooner rather than later. I'd like to have finished my second album too, maybe even my third. I'd like a sound that sticks around that other people are inspired by and that people know is me.
-- Adele -
By creating so many illusory images of physical perfection, whether on store aisles or storefronts ads, magazine covers or TV show, we speak more to the profit margins of companies than the self-esteem of today's girls.
-- Adora Svitak -
You agree - I'm sure you agree that beauty is the only thing worth living for.
-- Agatha Christie -
I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.
-- Al Yankovic -
Those with a high level of confidence may have as many or more weaknesses than those with low self-esteem. The difference is this; instead of dwelling on their handicaps, they compensate for them by dwelling on their strengths.
-- Alan Loy McGinnis -
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
-- Alan Watts -
The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.
-- Albert Einstein -
Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.
-- Albert Ellis -
For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency. If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic. People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness. People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware. Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world. Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional. The art of love is largely the art of persistence.
-- Albert Ellis -
Attempts to help humans eliminate all self-ratings and views self-esteem as a self-defeating concept that encourages them to make conditional evaluations of self. Instead, it teaches people unconditional self-acceptance.
-- Albert Ellis -
This, perhaps, goes to show that conditional self-esteem, as I have said for many years, is an insidious, real sickness, so much so that even Buddhists carelessly sneak it in and sometimes encourage their clients to achieve it.
-- Albert Ellis -
Is self-esteem a sickness? That's according to the way you define it. In the usual way it is defined by people and by psychologists, I'd say that it is probably the greatest emotional disturbance known to man and woman.
-- Albert Ellis
