George Carlin Quotes

self-esteem, n. An erroneous appraisal.

If you feel inadequate to face challenges, unworthy of love or respect, untitled to happiness, and fear assertive thought, wants, or needs- if you lack basic self trust, self-respect, and self-confidence- your self-esteem deficiency will limit you, no matter what other assets you possess.

Nobody else can demean me. I can only demean myself

Your self-esteem is a notch below Kafka.

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

How can you blame others for disrespecting you when you think of yourself as unworthy of respect?

Self-esteem is the goddamn root of all evil.

A lot of people say if you can't love yourself, then you can't love others. It's always different, but I definitely have loved a lot in my life.

If I were to search for the central core of difficulty in people as I have come to know them, it is that in the great majority of cases they despise themselves, regarding themselves as worthless and unlovable.

It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.

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

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

It is easier to overcome people's judgments than to overcome our own self-judgment.

Self-esteem is something you have to earn!

The first problem, of course, is that we haven't learned to love ourselves. That's the first problem. We can only give to another what we have to give. And if we have no love over here, we can't give it over there.

If you truly want to become a better you, it is imperative that you learn to feel good about yourself.

Only a person who considers himself too good for you is good enough.

The idea that you're hard to love is ludicrous.

If you're ever if you're ever thinking, “Oh, but I'm a waste of space and I'm a burden,” remember: that also describes the Grand Canyon. Why don't you have friends and family take pictures of you from a safe distance? Revel in your majestic profile?

People who are insecure about themselves will avoid social comparisons that are potentially threatening to their self-esteem

I was never no, never no, never enough, But I can try, I can try to toughen up.

Oh, I'm so inadequate. And I love myself!.

Low self-esteem causes me to believe that I have so little worth that my response does not matter. With repentance, however, I understand that being worth so much to God is why my response is so important. Repentance is remedial work to mend our minds and hearts, which get bent by sin.

Lack of self-worth is the fundamental source of all emotional pain. A feeling of insecurity, unworthiness and lack of valueis the core experience of powerlessness.

You can be loved by your family, your mate, and your friends yet not love yourself. You can be admired by your associates yet regard yourself as worthless. You can project an image of assurance and poise that fools almost everyone yet secretly tremble with a sense of inadequacy. You can fulfill the expectations of others yet fail your own. You can win every honor yet feel that you have accomplished nothing. What shall it profit a person to gain the esteem of the whole world yet lose his or her own?