Self-esteem Quotes

"Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me."

- Audre Lorde

"You don’t have to be pretty. You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female.'"

- Erin McKean

"I always thought that people told you that you’re beautiful–that this was a title that was bestowed upon you … I think that it’s time to take this power into our own hands and to say, ‘You know what? I’m beautiful. I just am. And that’s my light. I’m just a beautiful woman.'"

- Margaret Cho

"You, yourself, as much as anyone in the entire universe, deserves your love and affection."

- Buddha

"A rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose. All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that's like women too."

- Miranda Kerr

"We're all golden sunflowers inside."

- Allen Ginsberg

"My heart looks better on me than my face."

- Anthony Liccione

"Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Don't let anyone ever make you feel like you don't deserve what you want."

- 10 Things I Hate About You

"He that respects himself is safe from others."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are."

- Oprah Winfrey

""When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.""

- Oprah Winfrey

""There’s never any guarantee that anyone will like you. So if anyone likes you at all, you’ve already won.""

- Chelsea Handler

"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for"

- Maureen Dowd

"Do I need to be liked? Absolutely not. I like to be liked. I enjoy being liked. I have to be liked. But it’s not like a compulsive need to be liked. Like my need to be praised."

- Michael Scott

"Let others determine your worth and you're already lost, because no one wants people worth more than themselves."

- Peter V. Brett

"Once you embrace your value, talents, and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you."

- Rob Liano

"You don't have to let that one thing be the thing that defines you."

- Jojo Moyes

"Why compare yourself with others? No one in the entire world can do a better job of being you than you."

"To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are."

"Don't let someone bring you down they're already lower then you."

- Unknown

"True self-love is not arrogant or boastful, but gentle and understanding."

- Unknown

"We’re all born geniuses, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will go its whole life believing it’s stupid."

- Unknown

"Your ADHD brain may process social cues differently, and that’s okay. You bring unique energy and creativity to relationships."

"Having ADHD doesn’t mean you’re a bad friend. You might show care differently, which makes your friendships special."

"Having different priorities doesn’t mean your priorities are wrong. Your brain processes importance uniquely — and that’s okay."

"Self-love is not selfish; you cannot truly love another until you know how to love yourself."

"You are smart You are amazing You are beautiful You are enough Don't let anyone make you think otherwise."

"I am worthy of love and healing."

"Leave the shame behind and be proud, because you’re going to overcome this. I hope other women can find that inside of them."