Charles Bukowski Quotes

I am not someone who throws around the word 'self-esteem.' It is a fictional description.

Before all this happened, I always used to see my stammer as being a negative, all my life, but then when I went on 'Pop Idol,' and the first time I saw it on television, it was really, really bad, but also it made me stand out; it made people remember me. So for the first time in my life, it worked to my advantage.

When people have an inner sense of confidence, they're more beautiful.

I learned the importance of being confident. I think that at the end of the day, it's not so much about what you look like - it's really about the way that you feel. That resonates with people.

It doesn't matter if you're small, big, or fit: if you go in front of the camera and deliver and say, 'Oh my God, I look amazing,' and just be sure about yourself, everything will be perfect.

I don't want to see myself as this sad, disabled girl. I know that. I don't want other people to see me as that, either.

I'm super confident in who I am.

You got to believe in yourself. Hell, I believe I'm the best-looking guy in the world and I might be right.

The biggest problem I had - and the biggest problem teenagers have - is not how they dress, how they look or how they act or talk. It's how they see themselves - their self-esteem. In the tenth grade, I realized I am who I am. I've got big ears and big feet. I can etiher sulk around or I can be happy with who I am. The minute I decided to be confident with who I was, all that other stuff stopped. It's all in the way you carry yourself.

Appear tougher or cooler or funnier than you feel and there is a chance you'll make it.

I have so much more confidence in myself now than I ever did before.

If you can convince yourself that you look fabulous, you can save yourself the trouble of primping.

Don't allow anybody to make you feel that you're nobody.

The picture you have of yourself, your self-esteem, will have a profound effect on the way you see the world and the way your world sees you.

Self-esteem means knowing you are the dream.

I feel more and more that the most beautiful people are the ones who are comfortable with themselves.

I don't have a strong sense of self-worth unless I'm doing something.

I have a high self-opinion - I don't need to hide that. I don't need to be self-deprecating.

My friends have to remind me that it's OK to own the fact that you're good at something. I think it'll just come with getting older.

The funny thing is, I'm so used to not caring what anyone says, good or bad, that unfortunately even when people say good things... I wish it made me feel good, but it doesn't.

Confidence. If you have it, you can make anything look good.

I want to show people there's more to me than they think.

I feel like I have a healthy self-esteem.

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.

He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think that's the key to understanding Steve Jobs.