#esteem

When you're a kid growing up, and you think you're gay, you know that you're different; you're often teased and it can really destroy your self-esteem. But sports can be great for building self-esteem. ↗

— Greg Louganis

#destroy #different #gay #great #growing

She tried to remind herself that beauty was only skin deep, but that didn't offer any helpful excuses when she was berating herself for never knowing what to say to people. There was nothing more depressing than an ugly girl with no personality. It hurts, because deep inside, she knew who she was, and that person was smart and kind and often very funny, but somehow her personality always got lost somewhere between her heart and her mouth, and she found herself saying the wrong thing or, more often, nothing at all. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#personality #self-esteem #beauty

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#aware #before #children #conscious #easily

Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on. ↗

— Maxwell Maltz

#life #like #low #low self-esteem #self-esteem

I've talked to so many people, men and women alike, that get overweight and their self-esteem just goes in the tank. They think they're judged. They think they're unattractive. ↗

— Phil McGraw

#get #goes #i #judged #just

Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing. ↗

— Moliere

#everyone #founded #high #hold #must

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed. ↗

— William Temple

#books #chief #esteem #like #passed

It was something she didn't want me to do because she thought the rejection would ruin my self-esteem. My father was, like, 'If she wants to try it, let her try it.' ↗

— Ellen Muth

#father #her #like #me #my self

I was called fat and ugly in the press almost my entire life. I understand that being judged by others comes with the territory, but it broke my heart and ruined my self-esteem. ↗

— Kelly Osbourne

#being #being judged #broke #called #comes

To wake up in England and have the newspaper on your front door with a headline that says, 'Ozzie's Beach Whale of a Daughter,' doesn't really do much for your self-esteem at all. ↗

— Kelly Osbourne

#daughter #door #england #front #headline