Tawni O'Dell Quotes

I liked myself better when I wasn't me.

There are many ways that we hurt ourselves when we don't like who we are.

I don't hate myself, as a general rule. I'd say the best way to describe it is that I have moments of self-loathing at fairly regular intervals.

I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately to do well, and to know that you are at the best second rate.

He had an opinion of himself, I think, that was too high for his own good. Or maybe it was the reverse. Maybe it was a low opinion that he kept trying to erase.

I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.

Do I really need to prove anything to anybody? I don't feel that I have to prove anything. The only thing that I have to prove is to myself, that I have value.

You are no better than you should be.

I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure.

I often think you bring unhappiness on yourself, because if you don't like yourself very much, you allow yourself to be influenced by people who reinforce that.

I can't stand the kind of paralysis that some people fall into because they're not happy with the choices they've made.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

Everyone's always like, 'Be your best self!' And that drives me bananas, because when you're not, it makes you feel really bad.

Personally, I've struggled with a lot of doubt in myself at times.

I digested this value system that told me there was no one for me unless I reached a certain type of perfection. And as you get older, you realize that ideal is constantly changing.

If you can't stand yourself, neither can anybody else!

I don't like myself. I'm not vain at all. I hate looking at myself - I always think I look ugly. Honest.

We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes

I'm hatin' my reflection, I walk around the house tryin' to fight mirrors, I can't stand what I look like

Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.

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's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: "If you're so great, why would you think I'm so great.

Self-esteem is something you have to earn!

Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be.

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