Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.
Judging by informal observation, most young Americans burn up their spare time buffing their emotional IQ and self-esteem with social media and non-stop texting. That’s great for eye-thumb coordination, but what about the satisfaction of actually making something?
By creating so many illusory images of physical perfection, whether on store aisles or storefront ads, magazine covers or TV shows, we speak more to the profit margins of companies than the self-esteem of today’s girls.
Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.
There was a time in my life when people called me ‘Denim Dan.’ I didn’t like it. And fortunately for my self-esteem, it didn’t stick for very long. I was 12, and I was given the name by my classmates after I showed up to the first day of school in – wait for it – triple denim.
My family has reduced the effect of my career on my self-esteem. When I’m with them, they make me feel special regardless of how I play.
My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school.
‘Showgirls’ was a critical point in my life. I had my head handed to me. At 21 years old, I had to find my self-esteem again. It was a very hard time.
Happiness is definitely a priority in our household. That the kids are happy and everybody is comfortable. Self-esteem is very important.
Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant.
Confidence has nothing to do with what you look like. If you obsess over that, you’ll end up being disappointed in yourself all the time. Instead, high self-esteem comes from how you feel in any moment. So walk into a room acting like you’re in charge, and spend your energy on making the people around you happy.
I understand how important hair is to a woman’s self-esteem and confidence.
If you improve a teacher’s self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher’s overall effectiveness across the curriculum.
A person’s self-esteem has nothing to do with how she looks.
I believe that the dissolution of a marriage comes about by the breaking down of self-esteem.
You can’t compare an apple to an orange. It will cause a lot of self-esteem issues.
I certainly don’t feel like I have the perfect body type… It’s through your own eyes. And for every female, you’re going to see flaws in that; you’re going to see flaws regardless. So for me, it’s just important to have that confidence and self-esteem no matter what body type you have.
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.’
I wind up playing these characters a lot: They have self-esteem issues, or they’re going through a lot as a young adult.
For me, living a balanced life means nurturing the academic, physical, and spiritual aspects of my life so I can maintain a sense of well-being and self-esteem.
Although my marriage left me with three beautiful children, it also left me with a healthy dose of self-doubt, low self-esteem, and an extreme desire to be loved again. I was operating on empty, expecting to be paid in full.
In terms of self-esteem and confidence I think I’m generally quite healthy.
Even though I felt, at times, ‘My goodness, you’re among the upper echelon,’ there is still a huge void there. A huge void. It is about self-esteem. That’s a thing that has always been a real complex part of my life.
If you have a good self-esteem, you can be generous, you can give back and you can be productive in the world.
Like it or not, life is a series of competitions. You may be competing for a grade, a spot on a team, a job, or the largest account in town. The higher your self-esteem is, the better you get along with yourself, with others, and the more you’ll accomplish.
Self-esteem doesn’t come simply from dressing well, but they are both something we can control. It’s a missed opportunity when women say they don’t have the money, figure, etc., because style is such a way to help cultivate the way women feel about themselves.
Both of my girls have very high self-esteem because they were both able to master certain things; I should think that’s good for their confidence.
The power that you have as a young woman, unless you have great self-esteem, is largely based on how the rest of the world reacts to you. And so it’s kind of a superficial confidence that you have, you know?
Love who you are, embrace who you are. Love yourself. When you love yourself, people can kind of pick up on that: they can see confidence, they can see self-esteem, and naturally, people gravitate towards you.
With women, the way they look… it’s the core of their self-esteem.
I feel like I have a healthy self-esteem.
Cherish believes that God made her with a special purpose. Like any teenage girl, she has her insecurities, but for the most part she has a real healthy self-esteem.
I like to work. The self-esteem and satisfaction that I get from working makes me a better person, which makes me a better mom. I feel lucky because I have the luxury of working only one or two days a week.
Basically, in our society, you can never fix anything enough. The minute you get your head above water about one thing, they let you know that 12 other things about you suck. It’s like playing ‘Self-Esteem Whack-A-Mole.’
I have learned to become not an M.D. but a ‘C.D.’ for the wounded people I meet. Yes, a ‘Chosen Dad’ who may not like their behavior but loves and reparents them and helps them to heal their lives and find self-worth and self-esteem and save their lives.
I’m very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it’s more – I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really – it was kind of my calling card as a kid.
Even though I’m in the industry and I act and all this stuff, I still suffer from self-esteem issues… from the way that I look or the way that I talk… just nitpicking at myself.
I don’t have any terrific self-esteem issues but I do sometimes realise I’ve been too lucky and that I’m over-praised. It makes me nervous. I have this sense of being overrated.
I learned that coming out was crucial to self-esteem.
The thing I’m most proud of is that I’ve raised a lot of money for certain charities – breast cancer and the Caldecott Foundation and the NSPCC. But as far as my self-esteem is concerned, doing ‘The Graduate’ for 11 months was fantastic.
Most of the people of this world are coated round and round with self-esteem, and they’re afraid to admit any understanding of the things which aren’t good.
Every child is entitled to an academic education. But resilience, stickability, self-esteem – they need these things, too, and even more than the privately educated.
I did some pretty embarrassing modeling, like catalogs and QVC. I know there’s probably a stereotype where all pretty girls think they’re unattractive, but modeling is the worst thing for your self-esteem, because you’re never pretty enough, you’re never thin enough.
Every woman has, for her own self-esteem, to work or have a major interest.
I would much rather be someone with high self-esteem and less funny.
Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.
I didn’t have a job because nobody would hire me. My friends were getting hired, and I couldn’t even get a job interview. That really rocked my self-esteem because I didn’t understand what I did wrong on those job applications.
The biggest thing you can give a kid is self-esteem, so that they’re not shy to do different things.
For a kid, self-esteem can be as close at hand as a sports victory or a sense of belonging in a peer group. It’s a much more complicated and elusive proposition for adults, subject to the responsibilities and vicissitudes of grown-up life.
There was a time in my life where I was very depressed, I had lost all self-esteem. I came to a point where I couldn’t even look at myself in the mirror, I had gained weight.
I think comedy comes more from a low sense of self-esteem, and I certainly have that.
Call centres employ mainly out-of-work actors because vocal skills plus low self-esteem equals reliable cold caller.
I’m passionate about speaking out against bullying and speaking up for self-awareness with young people and body-image issues and self-esteem issues.
I think just more that it’s okay for fighters to have a self-esteem. I think I’ve kind of shown that that’s okay. And as long as you put the hard work in, you can accomplish anything.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
All my life, I have judged my worth by how much I have been loved by a man. It’s so with a lot of women, that their self-esteem is measured by how much they are loved by a man, their partner, their boyfriend or maybe their husband. In my case, it may be because I grew up without my father.
Mastery over the body – its impulses, its needs, its size – is paramount; to lose control is to risk beauty, and to risk beauty is to risk desirability, and to risk desirability is to risk entitlement to sexuality and love and self-esteem.
