Quotes about Self-esteem
What I think I sell with my clothes is confidence, so hopefully all my dresses, my accessories, are friends to the women. When you open the closet, and your eyes are swollen, and you don't like the way you look, you go to your friends.
— Diane von Furstenberg
Through my education, I didn't just develop skills, I didn't just develop the ability to learn, but I developed confidence.
— Michelle Obama
Your age doesn't define your maturity; your grades don't define your ability; and what people say about you doesn't define who you are.
— Nicky Gumbel
Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
— Helen Keller
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
— Henry Ward Beecher
You are stronger than you think.
— Joseph Wirthlin
Our malady is not low self-esteem, nor is it how we view ourselves; rather, it is our low view of God.
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
The fruitfulness of our lives depends in large measure in our ability to doubt our own words and to question the value of our own work. The man who completely trusts his own estimate of himself is doomed to sterility.
— Thomas Merton
The arguments of religious men are so often insincere, and their insincerity is proportionate to their anger. Why do we get angry about what we believe? Because we do not really believe it. Or else what we pretend to be defending as the "truth" is really our own self-esteem. A man of sincerity is less interested in defending the truth than in stating it clearly, for he thinks that if the truth be clearly seen it can very well take care of itself.
— Thomas Merton
Why do we get angry about what we believe? Because we do not really believe it. Or else what we pretend to be defending as the "truth" is really our own self-esteem. A man of sincerity is less interested in defending the truth than in stating it clearly, for he thinks that if the truth be clearly seen it can very well take care of itself.
— Thomas Merton
A man is a kind of inverted thermometer, the bulb uppermost, and the column of self-valuation is all the time going up and down.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If you don't believe in yourself, how can you ask others to do so?
— Napoleon Hill