Mark Goulston Quotes

I feel like I have a healthy self-esteem.

Some people say I'm not a very pretty woman, but I'm a very beautiful woman inside.

I have a theory that confidence comes from self-worth.

It's very difficult to be fully accepting of who you are when you've got that superficial world out there.

You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at.

I don't always understand my worth.

Maybe you just don't see your own beauty.

No one can figure out your worth but you.

There was a time when I didn't like myself at all. I thought I was a cruel joke. But now I've come to realise that maybe I am not cute, but I am beautiful.

I've never disliked myself, and my weight has had nothing to do with my self-esteem.

Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable. Lovable means I feel people want to be with me. They invite me to parties; they affirm I have the qualities necessary to be included. Feeling capable is knowing that I can produce a result. It's knowing I can handle anything that life hands me.

I feel very confident with the way I look. But I felt just as confident the way I looked before. I've always been confident with who I am.

It's so important for girls to respect themselves and not put themselves down and say, 'Oh, my life is horrible,' and 'I'm not pretty enough.' How do you know? There's this energy people give off that people can be drawn to.

I used to think I was ugly. I thought I looked like a camel. A person who doesn't love themselves, they will see anything that pops up on their face. I've seen squirrels, I've seen a bird, and I've seen all kinds of animals on my face. But that is the result of self-hate. I've learned to say: 'You know what? I am a beautiful black woman'.

You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you feeling otherwise.

The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.

Over the years, I've interviewed thousands of people, most of them women, and I would say that the root of every dysfunction I've ever encountered, every problem, has been some sense of a lacking of self-value or of self-worth.

Frankly, the idea that we need to be beautiful, if you really think about it, it's odd. But if you can turn it inward and see yourself as beautiful, that's what changes the world.

I want to feel confident and good about myself.

I am comfortable with how I look.

If you feel good about yourself on the inside, that's gonna show to people. I don't think it's all about makeup and hair and how you dress. I think it's more of an inner thing and how you feel about yourself and that's ultimately what will shine through no matter what.

It doesn't matter how many people adore you or how skinny, successful, smart, talented, funny, kind, or compassionate you are. None of it matters if you don't see your wonderful self.

I don't hate what I see when I look in the mirror. Even if legions of others don't agree. I have accepted the reflection that reliably bounces back at me for its perks and its flaws.

I just think girls need to value themselves much more than they do.

I consider myself a woman endowed with inner beauty.