Woody Guthrie Quotes

The hardest part is just hearing people saying that I won't amount to crap, and that I'm going to be a bust.

I was told from a very young age that I wasn't gonna be anything. That I wasn't gonna amount to a single thing.

I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off.

Self-depreciation is a disease. Once it gets a hold on us - good-bye!

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.

All my life, men have told me I wasn't pretty enough - even the men I was dating. And I'd be like, 'Well, why are you with me, then?' It's always been men putting me down just like my dad. To this day when someone says I'm cute, I can't see it. I don't see it no matter what anybody says.

A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else.

I don't think I am narcissistic. I think I have low self-esteem.

I suffer the terrible disease of low self-esteem.

I didn't have much confidence in myself... never.

Like everyone, I had low self-esteem, and I wanted to be like the pretty, popular girls.

Paper Doll' is about being bullied, and about having someone in your life who is constantly trying to put you down, and trying to make you feel like you are not good enough being who you are.

Nobody likes me!" "I wish I could like you, Charlie Brown, but I can't... If I were to like you, it would be admitting that I was lowering my standards! You wouldn't want me to do that, would you? Be reasonable! I have standards that I have set up for liking people, and you just don't meet those standards! It wouldn't be reasonable for me to like you!" "I hate myself for being so unreasonable!

I give credence to the worst things somebody writes about me, and if somebody writes something nice, I think they're wrong or false or lying or joking.

I'm very bad at having heroes. I don't rate anyone particularly highly because I'm so snide and competitive and not very nice.

I'm not that good looking.

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!

You have to not listen to the nay sayers because there will be many and often they'll be much more qualified than you and cause you to sort of doubt yourself.

People will kill you over time, and how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like 'be realistic.'

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.

Can I go one day without somebody saying something negative about me?

Clearly I am a person who suffers from a lack of ego.

I don't like to look at myself in the mirror, which is why my eye makeup is always crooked.

I will never feel successful.

I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.