Low Self Esteem Quotes - Page 3

• Sometimes I almost feel just like a human being.

  Elvis Costello

  Feels Just, Sometimes, Humans

  Song: Lipstick Vogue, Album: This Year's Model, 1978

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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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• As young girls we grow up with the idea that life is going to be a bit of a fairytale. But at some point reality hits and we realise that's not what life is about. Many of us are faced with eating disorders and mental health struggles, bad relationships and heartbreak, low self-esteem and confused sexualities and more. Life is very much real.

  Darren Fletcher

  Girl, Growing Up, Confused

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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

  Jethro Tull

  Running, Clothes, Noses

  Song: Aqualung, Album: Aqualung

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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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• Nobody told me you were cheating, it's just a feeling I had. So if I'm right, you got to lie to me, then I won't feel so bad.

  Brook Benton

  Cheating, Lying, Feelings

  Song: Lie to Me

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• To be an actor, a lot of times it's a strange combination of high confidence and low self-esteem. Which is a weird combination to have, but I think it's sort of very common among actors.

  Kurt Fuller

  Self Esteem, Thinking, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• With relationships, I always had a reason why some time in the future would be better for me than it was that day. When I was fat, I thought I'd feel pretty when I was thin, and when I was thin, I thought I'd be happier if I was more toned and muscular and had more money to look more coordinated. I wasn't comfortable in my own skin unless there was a man there to tell me just how radiant that skin looked. I was a victim of low self-esteem and had the Soon syndrome bad. I was running toward a brighter future, unaware of the mirages I'd created in the distance.

  Stephanie Klein

  Running, Self Esteem, Distance

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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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• We get off track. Capitalism takes us off track. You get off the "real" and get on the "wheel." The "wheel" becomes the winning and losing, the succeeding and failing, the "I will achieve." All that stuff becomes so preoccupying, particularly if you're born with low self-esteem, or no sense of yourself, or even if you're just born in the consumer culture. It's very powerful.

  Eve Ensler

  Powerful, Real, Self Esteem

  "The Big Idea: Eve Ensler". Interview with Suzanne Koven, therumpus.net. June 12, 2013.

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• I've suffered from low self-esteem.

  Ken Kercheval

  Self Esteem, Lows, Self

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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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• 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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• 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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• The road to nowhere leads to me.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Song: Road To Nowhere

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• The one that rambles for a million miles, yes, I walk down this road searching for your love.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Miles, Walks, Millions

  Jimi Hendrix, Roger St. Pierre (1986). “Jimi Hendrix: recorded poems”

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• I don't think I am narcissistic. I think I have low self-esteem.

  Lorraine Bracco

  Self Esteem, Thinking, Narcissistic

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• All my life I've always been so blue, born to lose, and now I'm losing you.

  Ray Charles

  Blue, Losing, Born

  Song: Born To Lose

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• He's a mean, mean man, but I love him all I can.

  Wanda Jackson

  Mean, I Love Him, Men

  Song: Mean Mean Man, 2008

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• Every chance you get you seem to hurt me more and more, but each hurt makes my love stronger than before.

  Marvin Gaye

  Hurt, Stronger, Chance

  Song: Ain't That Peculiar, Album: Moods of Marvin Gaye

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• Dreams were all they gave for free to ugly duckling girls like me.

  Janis Ian

  Girl, Dream, Ugly Duckling

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

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• I want to be alone. Sympathies wasted on my hollow shell. I feel there's nothing left to fight for. No reason for a cause.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Fighting, Shells, Want

  Song: Lost, Album: Solace, 1991

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• As you tumble to the ground, pick me up on your way down.

  Charlie Walker

  Pick Me Up, Way, Picks

  Song: Pick Me Up On Your Way Down

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