Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

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.

Do I think well of myself, think myself a nice chap? WEll, I am afraid I sometimes do (and those are, no doubt, my worst moments).

Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.

Self-esteem is the goddamn root of all evil.

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

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

Nothing else loves me, or ever will. Not even - especially - me. I know what I am and that is not a thing to love.

Mirabelle is not affected by a man’s failures to approach her, as her own self-depreciating attitude never allows the idea that he would in the first place.

I've never had that concern of thinking of myself as stupid.

We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice.

I am not loved. I am not a beautiful soul. I am not a good-natured, giving person. I am not anybody's savior.

Maybe you just don't see your own beauty.

I'm not a beautiful person and I never have been.

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

I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make.

I suffer the terrible disease of low self-esteem.

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.

What you look like doesn't matter as much as what you feel like. If you feel you look good, you look good. And I never felt that.

I look back at my old school journals, and they're full of self-hatred, full of me condemning myself for not being prettier, richer, more popular.

I never give myself enough credit.

The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.

No one's busy thinking bad things about you. They're all too busy thinking bad things about themselves.

Imperfections would not be half so much taken notice of, if vanity did not make proclamation of them.

There are some persons who only disgust with their abilities, there are persons who please even with their faults.

When you look in the mirror and hate what you see, you need addictions to survive.