Spina bifida affects every single aspect of your life, from your child’s self-esteem to your ability to sleep at night.
Self-esteem doesn’t have to just be about the way you look; it can be about your talents and passions. All of those things can build someone’s confidence and show them that they have self worth and they are important.
I don’t take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.
It is normal that when results are better, self-esteem grows, and improving things becomes more easier.
If we get our self-esteem from superficial places, from our popularity, appearance, business success, financial situation, health, any of these, we will be disappointed, because no one can guarantee that we’ll have them tomorrow.
I was doing a children’s book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I’d been feeling – and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves.
If you feel like the beginning of your history is rooted in slavery, that really, I think, messes with your sense of self, your self-esteem, and your self-worth.
Self-righteousness, when you think about it, is a contra-indicator of self-esteem. It’s what sets in when genuine righteousness eludes us.
In high school, from age 15 to 18, I was saddled with the unfortunate nickname of ‘Junk,’ which doesn’t do a lot for one’s self-esteem.
It’s very validating when you are new in the industry to get awards. It boosts your self-esteem.
Self-esteem is such a challenging issue for young women.
When you go through a traumatic event, there’s a lot of shame that comes with that. A lot of loss of self-esteem. That can become debilitating.
Self-esteem is something I still battle. People look at me and say, ‘You’ve got fame. You’ve got admiration. You’ve done this; you’ve done that.’ As far as I’m concerned, I haven’t done anything. I’ve just fulfilled a dream of competing.
The worst thing any of us can do for our self-esteem is compare ourselves to others, and that’s especially true of women.
Self-esteem, the kind that comes from finding the sweet spot between a healthy fondness for yourself and healthy self-skepticism, tends to get harder to come by the older we get.
Modeling is also the first job I’ve ever had where it’s my job to love myself. While many people think that modeling would chip away at your self-esteem, it’s actually bolstered mine tenfold.
Making a film is very gratifying and intoxicating. It does great things to your self-esteem, but pushing people and mentoring them to their full potential is far more fulfilling.
It seems to be a common denominator with a lot of comics, this low self-esteem thing.
I can be a rock star with a television show and still have a self-esteem problem. So it’s nice to have your dad go, ‘Hey Melissa, I’m proud of you – you’re doing good.’
As I grow older, working in the entertainment industry, where I should worry how others see me, my self-esteem has further dropped.
All my life, my church, my family, my friends have always told me to have high self-esteem… to think well of myself. And that’s what I’ve done.
Real self-esteem has to be earned. I also believe in virtuous circles, like, nothing is fun until you are good at it. It is great if you can instill in children the ability to not give up, to have a work ethic.
I respect people with high levels of self-esteem.
I read a lot on self-esteem issues, and a mother has more impact on the self-esteem of her daughter than peer pressure or media or television.
Money is rarely just money. Sometimes it stands in for love or self-esteem or freedom or a sense of control over your destiny (especially if you lacked these things in childhood).
I dropped out of my drama course at university after a year and just floated from rubbish job to rubbish job, with no self-esteem and no idea what I wanted to do.
Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all.
After a lifetime of feeling at home in my plus-size body, I was a 27-year-old having self-esteem issues. Clothes shopping stopped being fun and became a chore; I couldn’t wear the curve-showing styles I loved without Spanx – and I worried that my new body would affect my training.
I grew up with low self-esteem. I didn’t think I was very pretty. I had glasses, red hair and was generally quite a spod.
It’s hard to give up the self-esteem connected to being codependent and appearing ‘right,’ which is probably a survival behavior learned from growing up in a crazy family. It feels like you will actually disappear.
Everyone has different issues, and I think for a great deal of women, those issues are self-esteem. And for me, I really wanted to understand it and get through it because I didn’t want to be an actress afraid of getting older. I refuse to live that way.
I have a day job where I make money and satisfy my self-esteem. Writing is for fun, and I want to keep it that way.
I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it.
I had low self-esteem. I just really wanted attention and love from somebody.
To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who you are.
People like to pick at your imperfections, and that can be very hard on you as a person. I think, a lot of times, people forget that we’re human beings and some of us are fighting self-esteem issues already.
If we focus on our health, including our inner health, our self-esteem, and how we look at ourselves and our confidence level, we’ll tend to be healthier people anyway, we’ll tend to make better choices for our lives, for our bodies, we’ll always be trying to learn more, and get better as time goes on.
Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
You can be cocky and confident, but when you start developing feelings for someone, suddenly your self-esteem drops a bit.
From my vertical, people, especially men, don’t realize what clothes can do for their self-esteem, the way they see themselves, their confidence.
I was a kid who didn’t have a lot of self-esteem.
Growing up in the spotlight was quite possibly the worst for my self-esteem. I had a hard time finding confidence within myself.
A normal recession disrupts people’s lives, but a long recession destroys them. You lose output, prosperity, family stability, self-esteem, and many other qualities on what looks to be a semi-permanent basis.
Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.
Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually building up a different source of self-worth.
These are big trade-offs for a simple piece of cake – add five hundred calories, subtract well-being, allure, and self-esteem – and the feelings behind them are anything but vain or shallow.
Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it’s unbelievable!
I may be wrong, but I am never in doubt! And anyone who has been around me for even a minute understands that my self-confidence and self-esteem is sometimes overwhelming!
There is power in having a friend group because you have this bond that helps you navigate girl world, and it creates safety and self-esteem. But if you speak up to the leader, you risk that social isolation or not having a group and feeling really left out.
You can accomplish so many things with a negative outlook and low self-esteem if you just do it over and over and over again.
We’ve always been for women and for biggin’ up their self-esteem. That’s why we do songs like ‘Independent.’
Experts say that if children can’t read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more likely to enter the juvenile justice system.
Narcissism is not about self love. It’s a clinical trait that belies a deep sense of emptiness, low self-esteem, emotional detachment, self-loathing, extreme problems with intimacy.
When I poked Baker Mayfield in the ribs – police video, height – poked him in the ribs, kind of a reach. Oh, it bothered him. He fired back every time. Every time. Because Baker was not ready to go from best college team to lousy NFL team. That’s a certain level maturity and self-esteem that few have.
I think, head up and shoulders back. Not only does it make you look taller and thinner but it gives you confidence and boosts your self-esteem.
I didn’t want to go down any scarier path of low self-esteem than I was already on the track for. So during my second year of college I was like, ‘I’m over it! I have to go see what this other thing called life is about!’
For the first ten years after I got out of graduate school, I studied success. I read every book I could get my hands on and took every training I could find, and that allowed me to become an expert in this area. I learned how to create high self-esteem and success in my own life and in the lives of others.
