Helen Gurley Brown Quotes

And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.

To listen to critics, pro or con, and take their words to heart is to subcontract your self-esteem to strangers. (from Workbook)

I have to prove myself to everybody.

When I was younger, I wish I would have been told more often that I was right and nothing was wrong with me, that I was deserving of everything this world has to offer, and that my visions for my future were worthy of pursuit.

I haven't really looked at myself as someone that needs to prove a point to anyone.

I didn't need the belt to validate me.

You have to go 100 per cent and be confident in your body.

People told me that I was the best-looking girl in my college. But it was only after I won a beauty pageant in 2002 that I became confident.

There is nothing I need so much as nourishment for my Self Esteem

Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.

I'm not competing with anyone, or begging someone to love me. I feel like I'm loved and I deserve to be where I am.

If my aim is to prove I am 'enough,' the project goes on to infinity-because the battle was already lost on the day I conceded the issue was debatable.

I am so secure in who I am. I really am! And I'm not conceited. I just think, 'Wow, okay, that's the life you want to live.' It wasn't about who he chose. I mean, I had moments, 'Am I not sexy enough? Am I not pretty enough? Am I not smart enough?' But in so many of those questions, I immediately stopped and said, 'No, don't start doing that.' Because you can get stuck in that cycle and you can carry on to other things.

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

It's very tiring having other people tell you how much they dig you if you yourself don't dig you.

Self-esteem is something you have to earn!

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.

Self-esteem and self-love are the opposites of fear; the more you like yourself, the less you fear anything.

Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it's the secret to good sex.

Let others determine your worth and you're already lost, because no one wants people worth more than themselves.

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.

First, you must love yourself. And if you do that convincingly enough, others will love you too much.

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?

You've got to love yourself first, and until you value yourself enough and love yourself enough to know that, you can't really have a healthy relationship.

If the world thinks you're not good enough, it's a lie, you know. Get a second opinion.