Nicholas Sparks 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.

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

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

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 had very, very bad self-esteem - that I was a fake, everybody was going to find out, that I didn't deserve to have success, just about my looks and really, really bad self-esteem.

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

I didn’t feel that there was much goodness in me.

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.

I had no confidence at school. I was not a good student and I really thought I was pretty stupid. Just dumb.

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

So many people can tell me, 'You're amazing,' rather, but I don't think it. You know, so, I don't go around thinking this. I'm really hard on myself. I think that's quite good.

I'm not sure I'm very confident at all. There was a lot of my life when I thought I was fundamentally unlovable.

I never pictured myself being liked by anybody.

Most people settle because they don't like themselves enough.

I feel like I'm the worst, so I always act like I'm the best.

Seems like the only one who doesn't see your beauty is the face in the mirror looking back at you.

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

I don't like my voice. I don't like the way I look. I don't like the way I move. I don't like the way I act. I mean, period. So, you know, I don't like myself.

Comparison is a brutal assault upon one's self. Once you compare yourself to someone else, what you're really saying is that what you're made of isn't good enough.

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

It's rather difficult to think of anybody being really interested in me. But you know, man, I am totally together.

I have an inferiority complex, but it’s not a very good one.

I was self-conscious of being so lanky, of being me. I'd keep my head down, make excuses not to go out. I'd look in the mirror and hate myself. I thought I was disgusting. I cried constantly from 11 to 16. If I could tell my younger self anything, it would be to learn to love your flaws. It's OK to look in the mirror and feel really confident about yourself.

No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself.