Steven Patrick Morrissey Quotes

There is nothing I need so much as nourishment for my Self Esteem

If my aim is to prove I am 'enough,' the project goes on to infinity-because the battle was already lost on the day I conceded the issue was debatable.

Don't wait for someone else to validate you. Validate yourself.

The ego needs recognition. The spirit does not need to thank itself.

I don't hate myself, as a general rule. I'd say the best way to describe it is that I have moments of self-loathing at fairly regular intervals.

I don't need to get any validation by someone else who sits next to me in first class. If you think a seat in first class makes you a star, then you're not one.

The truly great rest in the knowledge of their own deserts, nor seek the conformation of the world.

Screen credit is valuable only when it's given you. If you're in a position to give yourself credit, you don't need it.

There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.

I kept wanting to push my image as validity; I wanted to see my portrait on a wall and know it was okay.

I didn't feel I had to prove anything more.

Copying is a form of self-validation.

I'm always trying to prove myself to the rest of the world.

If a man has the assurance within his own heart that he is worthy, and that he is laboring to the best of his ability to do good, he can stand up under the condemnation, the criticism and the censure of those by whom he is surrounded.

When you call me close to tell me your body is not beautiful I want to summon the eyes and hidden mouths of stone and light and water to testify against you.

By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of mind into the keeping of another, of whose attitude you can never be certain. You have a new source of doubt and apprehension.

Laugh all you want. I know my own worth and don't need to prove it to someone who doesn't know theirs.

Self-rejection is the biggest sin that you can commit.

It's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: "If you're so great, why would you think I'm so great.

Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.

The greatest single cause of a poor self-image is the absence of unconditional love.

Self-esteem is something you have to earn!

Self-esteem is not based on itself.

Self-approbation, when founded in truth and a good conscience, is a source of some of the purest joys known to man.

Positive self-esteem is the quality of simply saying thank you and accepting any value that is attributed to you by others.