Quotes for All
We get off track. Capitalism takes us off track. You get off the real and get on the wheel. The wheel becomes the winning and losing, the succeeding and failing, the I will achieve. All that stuff becomes so preoccupying, particularly if you’re born with low self-esteem, or no sense of yourself, or even if … Read more
I was a painfully shy, awkward kid, with low self-esteem and almost no social skills. Online, I didn’t have a problem talking to people or making friends. But in the real world. interacting with other people – especially kids my own age – made me a nervous wreck. I never knew how to act or … Read more
I’m about as normal as Norman Bates. Eminem
I’ll be a fool or a wiseman, my darling, you hold the key. Anyway you want me, that’s how I will be. Elvis Presley
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. Elliot Aronson
Girls’ inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body image issues are an aspect of their lives which is causing them low self esteem and day-to-day suffering. Elizabeth Berkley
My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school. Elinor Lipman
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt
When you are in the grips of low self-esteem, it’s painful, and it certainly doesn’t feel like pride. But I believe that this is the dark, quieter side of pride — thwarted pride. Edward T Welch
Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge. Frederick Salomon Perls