Low Self Esteem Quotes - Page 6

• Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.

  Frederick Salomon Perls

  Encouragement, Self Esteem, Judging

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• It's been said that alcoholics are egomaniacs with low self -esteem. It's the prefect description. Being larger than life and yet your pride is crushed with self- loathing.

  Gary Oldman

  Self Esteem, Recovery, Pride

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• Perhaps the most extraordinary popular delusion about violence of the past quarter-century is that it is caused by low self-esteem. That theory has been endorsed by dozens of prominent experts, has inspired school programs designed to get kids to feel better about themselves, and in the late 1980s led the California legislature to form a Task Force to Promote Self-Esteem. Yet Baumeister has shown that the theory could not be more spectacularly, hilariously, achingly wrong. Violence is a problem not of too little self-esteem but of too much, particularly when it is unearned.

  Steven Pinker

  Self Esteem, School, Kids

  Steven Pinker (2011). “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined”, p.560, Penguin

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• I wear black on the outside
  'Cause black is how I feel on the inside.

  Steven Morrissey

  Clothes, Soul, Feelings

  "Song: 'Unloveable'". 1986.

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• So many comics have such low self-esteem.

  Debra Wilson

  Self Esteem, Lows, Self

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• I was a painfully shy, awkward kid, with low self-esteem and almost no social skills. Online, I didn't have a problem talking to people or making friends. But in the real world. interacting with other people - especially kids my own age - made me a nervous wreck. I never knew how to act or what to say, and when I did work up the courage to speak, I always seemed to say the wrong thing.

  Ernest Cline

  Real, Self Esteem, Kids

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• I just want you inside, baby, we don't need to talk about promises.

  Janet Jackson

  Baby, Promise, Needs

  Song: My Need, Album: The Velvet Rope, 1997

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• I lay my head on the railroad track, waitin' on the Double E. But the train don't run by here no more, poor, poor, pitiful me.

  Warren Zevon

  Running, Track, Railroads

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• Grosvenor and Burke suggest that continually, though silently, a school building tells students who they are and how they should think about the world. It can help to manufacture rote obedience or independent activity; it can create high self-confidence or low self-esteem.

  Alison Lurie

  Self Esteem, School, Independent

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• Poverty is about low, self-esteem and a lack of role models and opportunities. Without money, people resort to de-dignifying activities in order to support themselves. We free people through education and entrepreneurship. Freedom is self-determination, and you can't self-determine without understanding money and capitalism.

  John Hope Bryant

  Education, Money, Determination

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• With this darkness all around me, I like to be liked. In this emptiness and fear, I want to be wanted. Cause I love to be loved.

  Peter Gabriel

  Darkness, Want, Causes

  Song: Love To Be Loved, Album: Us, 1992

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• Won't someone please answer my prayers before I'm old and gray. I've been lonely too long and all my family thinks I'm gay.

  Rod Stewart

  Lonely, Prayer, Gay

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• You don't have to say you love me, just be close at hand. You don't have to stay for ever, I will understand.

  Dusty Springfield

  Hands

  Song: You Don't Have To Say You Love Me, Album: You Don't Have to Say You Love Me

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• The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams from generation to generation. We all bear the cost of keeping it running. Illiteracy is its linchpin.

  Carl Sagan

  Running, Dream, Self Esteem

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.464, Ballantine Books

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• Good! Hang in there! It's normal! [Low self-esteem] Often it's a sign of intelligence (but don't let that go to your head haha)

  Patrick Stump

  Self Esteem, Haha, Normal

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• I never had a low self-esteem that would make me gay. At one point, though, the reverse happened. Being homosexual led me to have a loss of self-esteem when I first became aware of society's attitudes about homosexuality.

  Aaron Fricke

  Attitude, Self Esteem, Gay

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• I hate when counselors and teachers blame everything on low self-esteem in teens. Some of us actually have self-esteem, believe it or not. And when we make mistakes, it's not because of a defect in our psyche. We screw up just because.

  Niki Burnham

  Teacher, Hate, Mistake

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• When I get the strength to leave, you always tell me that you need me. And I'm weak cause I believe you and I'm mad because I love you. So I stop and think that maybe you could learn to appreciate me, and it all remains the same that you ain't never gonna change.

  Ashanti

  Believe, Love You, Thinking

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• Yes I think I'm okay, walked into the door again.

  Suzanne Vega

  Thinking, Doors, Okay

  Song: Luka, Album: Solitude Standing

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• You know, I'll always be your slave 'til I'm buried, buried in my grave.

  Sam Cooke

  Slave, Graves, Buried

  Song: Bring It On Home To Me

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• Too many young girls have eating disorders due to low self-esteem and distorted body image. I think it's so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully.

  Ariana Grande

  Beauty, Girl, Self Esteem

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• Low self esteem is rooted in many things. One of them is not spending time to appreciate the gifts we've been given.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Self Esteem, Appreciate, Spending Time

  FaceBook post by Nouman Ali Khan from Dec 18, 2013

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• You can knock me down, step on my face, slander my name all over the place. Do anything that you want to do, but uh-oh, honey, lay off of my shoes.

  Carl Perkins

  Names, Shoes, Want

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• The solution to low self-esteem is to get over yourself and get a higher purpose.

  Marianne Williamson

  Self Esteem, Over You, Purpose

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• Women with low self-esteem love bad boys. Women who have work to do love bad boys. Women who love themselves love good men.

  Tracy McMillan

  Self Esteem, Boys, Men

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