Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a child.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life.
Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.
Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable. Lovable means I feel people want to be with me. They invite me to parties; they affirm I have the qualities necessary to be included. Feeling capable is knowing that I can produce a result. It's knowing I can handle anything that life hands me.
I was a kid who didn't have a lot of self-esteem.
Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
For a kid, self-esteem can be as close at hand as a sports victory or a sense of belonging in a peer group. It's a much more complicated and elusive proposition for adults, subject to the responsibilities and vicissitudes of grown-up life.
Well, we all know that self-esteem comes from what you think of you, not what other people think of you.
I didn't have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager, as I think most teen-agers don't.
I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.
I am not someone who throws around the word 'self-esteem.' It is a fictional description.
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