Paul Muldoon Quotes

I believed what people said, that I don't deserve to be a leader because of the way I look. That I don't deserve to be popular, that I don't deserve to be loved. I'm not intelligent.

You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.

I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.

I grew up as a child who felt she was very inferior to everyone else.

When people tell you that you're less-than and that you don't matter and that you're inferior, you internalize some of that.

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 was fortunate to have had a lively, happy childhood, but somewhere along the way I convinced myself I wasn't wanted anywhere or by anyone if I wasn't thin.

I was told my whole life, you're fat, you're ugly, you're never going to amount to be anything.

And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.

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.

I have a very healthy dose of self-loathing. But I think we all have a past of being whatever our story was, of feeling not good enough. It can propel you to work harder and do more, but it can also be a tremendous trap, and you can't see beyond it.

I always thought everybody else was better than me.

When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count.

It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.

I grew up feeling like the ugly duckling, and things have not changed that much.

I've always believed that I had talent, even when I felt like a very inferior sort of person, which I spent a lot of time living my life feeling that I wasn't worthy.

I had a very poor image of myself because I believed too much of the people around me when I was very young.

Whenever people say nice things to me, I think they're just saying them because I'm standing right in front of them. Even when I read articles that say good things about me, I forget about them right away. When I read about people pointing out my flaws, however, I think about them a lot.

Every day I receive messages that I'm not good enough, that I should lose my job.

I used to think I was ugly because I was the baby.

I still have a lot of moments where I don't feel worthy.

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

Sometimes you're your own worst critic.

I have trouble keeping a lid on the self-hatred.

I have struggled with self-esteem issues since my teens, but it's clear in my first long-ago diary that I didn't start out that way. I acquired my low self-esteem. I learned it.