Self Esteem Quotes - Page 11

If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That's why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little chat.

The best thing to learn from any government is that it does not get affacted by what other people talk or think about it.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

You are magnificent beyond measure, perfect in your imperfections, and wonderfully made.

Sometimes to submit is to know you have a life worth living for a higher purpose, worth seeing through.

Letting go is the willingness to change your beliefs in order to bring more peace and joy into your life instead of holding onto beliefs that bring pain and suffering…

I know what it's like to sleep in fear, to starve myself to be worthy, to be ashamed of my voice, to want to sleep forever. To question why I deserve to live.

Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her "beauty" his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained no friend, no ally, no mutual trust: She knows quite well why she has been chosen. He has succeeded in buying something: the esteem of other men who find such an acquisition impressive.

The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were pretty would make you so.

Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.

To live in a culture in which women are routinely naked where men aren't is to learn inequality in little ways all day long. So even if we agree that sexual imagery is in fact a language, it is clearly one that is already heavily edited to protect men's sexual-and hence social-confidence while undermining that of women.

Health makes good propaganda.

The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.

Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.

Healthy emotions come in all sizes. Healthy minds come in all sizes. And healthy bodies come in all sizes.

The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty.

Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.

What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?