Self-Worth Issues Quotes

I always seek people's approval and I'm always never good enough.

It is very dangerous to have your self-worth riding on your results as an athlete.

Judging oneself to be inferior to other people was one of the worst acts of pride because it was the most destructive way of being different.

Arrogant or critical people are often people with low self-esteem who are afraid of taking risks. That's because, if you learn something new, you are then required to make mistakes in order to fully understand what you have learned.

I wasn't supported, I wasn't given any self-esteem.

Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves, And therefore are they very dangerous.

Everyone's been so quick to say that I'm really thick or I haven't got a brain. People will think whatever they want to think.

Reaching for the stars, perfectionists may end up clutching air. They suffer from mood disorders, troubled relationships, and stress. They may even achieve less than others.

Eagerness to please attracts bullies and bores.

If you don't have the confidence, it doesn't matter what you do, you're always second-guessing yourself.

There are three iron links in the neurotic's chain: unloving, unlovable, unloved.

These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected.

I think people who come from abuse and/or people who have mental illnesses, have terrible self-esteem problems.

I can see that I imagine all kinds of rejection that never happens. I can see that I beg and plead for love that is freely offered because I somehow believe that if I don't ask for it, everyone will forget about me: I will be a little kid sent off to sleep-away camp whose parents forget to meet her at the bus when she comes back in August. Or else I think people are nice to me only to be nice to me, that they feel sorry for me because I am such a loser- as if anyone could possibly be that generous.

Actors want to show off and dance in front of you and get your love, because they don't think they're worthy of it in any other way.

Although my marriage left me with three beautiful children, it also left me with a healthy dose of self-doubt, low self-esteem, and an extreme desire to be loved again. I was operating on empty, expecting to be paid in full.

Emotionally, a person can become so negatively driven that they don't respect the privilege of being on this Earth without their mother and their father. They may say it doesn't bother them, but there is something in us about those who are a biological part of us and don't care. People in that situation stop hearing the other voices that love them, hold them, trust them and tells them how great they are. They're focused on that one person who isn't answering them.

In truth, you like the pain. You like it because you believe you deserve it.

You have now reached infatuation’s final destination—the complete and merciless devaluation of self.

LIPID (Last Idiot Person I Dated) syndrome: a largely undiagnosed but pervasive disease that afflicts single women.

Zero, zero belief in myself. And it's changed somewhat, but there's still a lot of that in me.