John Grant Quotes

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.

You are enough, which I believe is critical for any human being to get in their bones.

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

I know that when I attached my sense of identity a little too closely to my work that I might be distracting myself from feelings of unworthiness. It wasn't the number of hours I worked or how bloodshot my eyes were that defined the difference. It was something internal.

I think that the most difficult thing is allowing yourself to be loved, so receiving the love and feeling like you deserve it is a pretty big struggle. I suppose that's what I've learnt recently, to allow myself to be loved.

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

Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.

I've struggled for confidence and had great doubts about myself. But, personally, I'm not riddled with guilt.

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

We need to say to ourselves 'I'm talented, loved, worthy, and valued.'

I've had a lot of self-esteem issues.

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

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

Loving oneself isn't hard, when you understand who and what 'yourself' is. It has nothing to do with the shape of your face, the size of your eyes, the length of your hair or the quality of your clothes. It's so beyond all of those things and it's what gives life to everything about you. Your own self is such a treasure.

I was a kid who didn't have a lot of self-esteem.

So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.

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

To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who you are.

Maybe you just don't see your own beauty.

I was so ashamed of who I was.

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

I think I'm great. I mean, I might as well come out and say it. Like most people, I have an ego and I'm in show business, so you have to have kind of a healthy, conflagrated ego to a degree. On the other hand, I'm consumed, like a lot of people, with self-doubt and loathing and guilt.

We many times sell ourselves short, not only in relationships but throughout our own lives. Hopefully, we come around at some point and realize our own value.