“Having a low opinion of yourself is not modesty. It’s self-destruction.”— Bobby Sommer, goodreads.com
“Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a child.”— Halle Berry, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com
“Exposing young people to normative and unrealistic images of bodies leads to a sense of self-depreciation and poor self-esteem that can impact health-related behavior.”— Marisol Touraine, wwd.com
“Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a child.”— Halle Berry, etonline.com
“It takes a strong person to do their own thing and not wait for anybody else to validate their existence.”— Steven Aitchison, goodreads.com
“Never be ashamed of what you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion that you want, and to do what makes you happy.”— Demi Lovato, seventeen.com
“Every human being, with no exception, for the mere fact to be it, is worthy of unconditional respect of everybody else; he deserves to esteem himself and to be esteemed.”— Carl Rogers, amazon.com
“Why do you put your self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?”— Helena Bonham Carter, indiewire.com
“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”— August Wilson, goodreads.com
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.”— Harvey Fierstein, en.wikiquote.org
“I do all this alone, everything I achieve, I achieve alone, because it’s my head I’m locked into, and I share this space with nobody but myself.”— Alex Garland, amazon.com
“But I am somebody... I am me. I like being me. And I need nobody to make me somebody.”— Louis L'Amour, amazon.com
“I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.”— Hermann Hesse, amazon.com
“If you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much an extraordinary phenomena of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars, and the form of a galaxy. You are all just like that, and there is nothing wrong with you at all.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“You either like me or you don’t. It took me twenty-something years to learn how to love myself, I don’t have that kinda time to convince somebody else.”— Daniel Franzese, goodreads.com
“I don’t owe people anything, and I don’t have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to.”— Ned Vizzini, amazon.com