Low Self Esteem Quotes - Page 2

• Those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces, desperately remained at home, inventing lovers on the phone.

  Janis Ian

  Home, Phones, Grace

  Song: At Seventeen, Album: Between the Lines, 1975

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• Though you treat me badly, I love you madly.

  Smokey Robinson

  Love You, Treats

  Song: You Really Got To Hold On Me

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• Too much to ask for may leave me feeling lonely. Too little leaves me nothing.

  Lisa Loeb

  Lonely, Feelings, May

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• Why stay with him, he uses you just like a human punching bag?

  Ray Davies

  Bags, Use, Punching

  Song: A Little Bit of Abuse, Album: Give the People What They Want

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• Can't break free from the things that you do. I wanna walk, but I run back to you, that's why I hate myself for loving you.

  Joan Jett

  Running, Hate, Loving You

  Song: I Hate Myself For Loving You, Album: Up Your Alley

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• My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school.

  Elinor Lipman

  Self Esteem, School, Narrators

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• At the root of fear is low self-esteem. This explains why angry people have low self-esteem, are argumentative, stubborn, and quick to flare up yet slow to forgive. Those behaviors are defenses against the underlying fear.

  David J. Lieberman

  Self Esteem, Flare Up, Roots

  David J. Lieberman (2010). “Find Out Who's Normal and Who's Not: The Proven System to Quickly Assess Anyone's Emotional Stability”, p.20, David Lieberman

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• Narcissism is actually a clever guise adopted to mask its exact opposite, which is a deep well of self-loathing, a well of low self-esteem, rather than high self-esteem. This helps explain why narcissists are so sensitive to criticism, why narcissists tend to break into outrage if they're criticized, because their self-esteem is actually much more brittle than it seems, and once they're challenged, that mask falls apart.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Clever, Self Esteem, Fall

  Source: www.dinnerpartydownload.org

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• Proud to steal her anything she sees, but you will wind up peeking through her key hole down upon your knees.

  Bob Dylan

  Keys, Wind, Peeking

  Song: She Belongs To Me, Album: Bringing It All Back Home, 1965

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• The joke that you laid in the bed that was me.

  Alanis Morissette

  Bed, Jokes

  Song: You Oughta Know, Album: Jagged Little Pill, 1995

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• Socialism is, among other things, the political habitat of low self-esteem, incompetence, self-loathing, and a willingness to steal - or have stolen for you what you are unable or unwilling to work for. Socialism is a philosophy fit only for slugs, leaches, and mosquitoes.

  L. Neil Smith

  Philosophy, Self Esteem, Political

  "Alice Shrugged". December 18, 2008.

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• Low self-esteem is not possible when you understand the nature of everything. Depression is not possible. The universe is absolutely friendly.

  Byron Katie

  Self Esteem, Friendly, Lows

  "The Turnaround: A Byron Katie Interview". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. December 3, 2013.

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• I love Paul Giamatti - God, that man is like a walking Chekhov. His connection to humanity is unbelievable, and those feelings of low self-esteem - the way that all comes together on the screen? Delicious.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Self Esteem, Men, Feelings

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• Throughout their lives, women try to pummel their bodies into some phantom ideal shape that exists only with a lot of airbrushing. ... I don't blame men for this. Men seem to go for us no matter what size and shape we are. I blame capitalism. No, really. The consumer must constantly be in a state of anxious low self-esteem so that she will constantly buy lipsticks and girdles to make her feel cuter.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Self Esteem, Men, Trying

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• Snot is running down his nose, greasy fingers, smearing shabby clothes.

  Jethro Tull

  Running, Clothes, Noses

  Song: Aqualung, Album: Aqualung

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• You're a no good heartbreaker, you're a liar, and you're a cheat. I don't know why I let you do these things to me.

  Aretha Franklin

  Liars, Cheat, Good Heart

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• The road to nowhere leads to me.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Song: Road To Nowhere

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• I've suffered from low self-esteem.

  Ken Kercheval

  Self Esteem, Lows, Self

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• Bragging is often merely a ladder we build for ourselves out of words when we are afraid we are not tall enough in the eyes of the world. It is an unwitting confession to low self-esteem.

  P. M. Forni

  Self Esteem, Eye, Ladders

  P. M. Forni (2010). “Choosing Civility: The Twenty-five Rules of Considerate Conduct”, p.62, Macmillan

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• The thing that drives me crazy is when comics say 'I have low self-esteem.' No you don't. You're standing on stage asking people to pay. You don't play an instrument. You want people to pay to hear what's in your mind. You don't have low self-esteem. You might have other problems.

  Colin Quinn

  Crazy, Self Esteem, Play

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• Brazilians need to work on their own national pride. I always think that they suffer from national low-self esteem. It's a lesser-developed country, and they have struggled so much. Sometimes they have an attitude that, if it's Brazilian, it can't be good.

  Amy Irving

  Country, Attitude, Self Esteem

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• To whom do I owe the first apology? No one's been crueler than I've been to me.

  Alanis Morissette

  Apology, Firsts

  Song: Sorry to Myself, Album: Feast On Scraps

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• Now all that's left of me, is what I pretend to be. So together, but so broken up inside.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Broken, Together, Left

  Song: Behind These Hazel Eyes, Album: Breakaway, 2004

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• Sticking to a diet required me to have a permanently low self-esteem. But happily, I developed other skills beyond a fluctuating weight, eventually building up a different source of self-worth.

  Arabella Weir

  Self Esteem, Self Worth, Building Up

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• No matter how fast I run, I can't get away from me.

  Jackson Browne

  Running, Matter, Get Away

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