Chip Conley Quotes

It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

I've always struggled so much just to appreciate myself.

I wasn't a cheerleader or the prom queen. I don't move through the world with a mirror in front of my face, and I've never been attracted to projects that had an emphasis on what I look like.

Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.

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

I'm searching, as we all are, for ways to feel good about myself. Certainly, looking in the mirror doesn't do it!

I will never be able to fix myself enough to the point I like myself, so I just jumped to the point where I said, 'I like myself as I am.'

I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple.

The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.

I will never, ever sit here and say, 'Oh my God, I'm so confident now, I love myself', because I don't.

It's really hard to foster self-love; it really is. I think a lot of people who claim that they do have a definite lack of self-loathing are either lying or just in a place that I don't relate to.

I have no issues with my identity.

Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-brake on.

I don't always understand my worth.

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.

I was so ashamed of who I was.

For me, whatever age or size I've been, I have rather liked myself. The shell is not the thing at all.

I think I'm highly loveable.

Because I now realize, after all this time, I have never truly felt worthy of all that I have been given.

I'm not a beautiful person and I never have been.

Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.

I used to look in the mirror and feel shame, I look in the mirror now and I absolutely love myself.

I want people to feel good about themselves.

Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality.