Best 91 quotes in «low self esteem quotes» category

The actual confident man, the man truly sure of himself, is not he who esteems himself higher than others, but he who is sure enough that he can bear to esteem others higher than himself.

The inner critic isn’t an enemy.

The average person’s self-esteem is so low that they are way less frequently surprised that they love someone than they are surprised that someone loves them.

The presence of pain should not be the reason for your low self-image. Boldness is the ability to stand tall even when the valley seems deep. Your pain will bring gain. Just believe and go to work!

The hunger for attention is usually a result of low self-esteem and the lack of unconditional self-love.

There are some people who through hurts do not feel they are good enough and this is a destroyer of their self-images. As a true believer of your dream, you need to see yourself as God sees you. God sees you as his own handiwork and that is pretty great to carry you through!

... there are other proud people who have low self-esteem. They feel they haven't lived up to their potential. They feel unworthy. They want to hide and disappear, to fade into the background and nurse their own hurts. We don't associate them with pride, but they are still, at root, suffering from the same disease. They are still yoking happiness to accomplishment; it's just that they are giving themselves a D- rather than an A+. They tend to be just as solipsistic, and in their own way as self-centered, only in a self-pitying and isolating way rather than in an assertive and bragging way.

The childhood sexual abuse taught me that my value came from sex. In adulthood, I was driven to have sex since I always felt worthless. I felt important and desired until it was over and then I felt like garbage—the same way I did after the abuse. I desperately needed to feel valued again, which led to more sex. My sex addiction only stopped when I believed that I’m valuable apart from anything I do.

We stay in the same old situations because we're comforted by the familiar, even if the familiar is terrible.

The years I spent pining for her, trying to subtly convince her that I was the man she needed to be with was what made me realize that I was competing with every man she knew for one ultimate goal. Just like a sporting event where her affections are the prize. And just like in a contest with athletes, I was completely outmatched. An amateur playing a game with experienced professionals.

What is wrong with me, that even this fucking loser won't give me what I want?

Without the mind, the idea of worthiness would not exist.

You have no choice about what gets poured into your cup, but you have a choice as to what you accept and believe.

Dreams were all they gave for free to ugly duckling girls like me.

The word "Wisdom" was for the people who have high level of inferiority complex and who are battling with some hard times.

Viewing yourself from the spirit’s perspective allows you to be detached from the drama in your mind. Then, you will realize your current self-perception is none other than a mental image created by your mind.

Words can’t harm you when they don’t mean anything to you.

You can’t change the outside without changing the inside.

You destruct the attention the world gives you when you mistrust your own ability

You have been “self-pitying” for long years now and things don’t seem to improve. Just try a few days of good self-esteeming” and you’ll see things taking a better shape!

As you tumble to the ground, pick me up on your way down.

Every chance you get you seem to hurt me more and more, but each hurt makes my love stronger than before.

I don't need a mirror to see that it's true, cause I'm ugly with a capital U.

I'll be a fool or a wiseman, my darling, you hold the key. Anyway you want me, that's how I will be.

I'm just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.

I lay my head on the railroad track, waitin' on the Double E. But the train don't run by here no more, poor, poor, pitiful me.

I want to be alone. Sympathies wasted on my hollow shell. I feel there's nothing left to fight for. No reason for a cause.

I never could have dreamed that her heart was so wicked, but I keep coming back because it's so hard to kick it.

I looked in the mirror at my pigeon chest, I had to put my clothes on cause it made me depressed.

I sabotage myself for fear of what my bigness could do.

No matter how fast I run, I can't get away from me.

I've been looking for a savior in these dirty streets, looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets.

Proud to steal her anything she sees, but you will wind up peeking through her key hole down upon your knees.

Now all that's left of me, is what I pretend to be. So together, but so broken up inside.

Mirror that lies, mirror that lies, that can't be me in the gorilla disguise.

Those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces, desperately remained at home, inventing lovers on the phone.

Snot is running down his nose, greasy fingers, smearing shabby clothes.

Too much to ask for may leave me feeling lonely. Too little leaves me nothing.

With this darkness all around me, I like to be liked. In this emptiness and fear, I want to be wanted. Cause I love to be loved.

The one that rambles for a million miles, yes, I walk down this road searching for your love.

You know, I'll always be your slave 'til I'm buried, buried in my grave.

A poor but confident man is as hard to find as a rich but shy man.

You can knock me down, step on my face, slander my name all over the place. Do anything that you want to do, but uh-oh, honey, lay off of my shoes.

So many comics have such low self-esteem.

But I live, I live, with an absolutely continuous sense of failure. I am always defeated, always.

By not standing up for themselves when it is appropriate, many [survivors] damage their self-esteem. They become angry and ashamed of themselves for putting up with inappropriate behavior. The more they put up with, the worse they feel. Soon, they begin to believe they don’t have a right to complain and convince themselves they are making a big thing out of nothing.

Complexes can be the feelings of guilt, a victim complex, and fear of failure, criticism, poverty, and loneliness, loss of love, success, insecurity, denial, and low self-esteem

Consciousness returns to its own dark thoughts and bad memories as reliably as kids to their own scabs, and maybe it's not so difficult to understand why. The mind doesn't like unresolved issues. Except that moods don't get resolved, they get forgotten – but just try forgetting the free-fall through depression's vacuum in a hurry. Worse than that, depression isn't just a memory, it's a state of mind. If you remember it, you're in it.

Every major life decision I made came from my pain, guilt and shame...even down to the man I chose for a husband.

Every sane adult is insecure about at least one thing on or about them.