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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.

— Meghan Daum

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a child.

— Halle Berry

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.

— Nathaniel Branden

Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.

— Jack Canfield

I was a kid who didn't have a lot of self-esteem.

— Melanie Lynskey

Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

— Nathaniel Branden

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.

— Jack Canfield

Real self-esteem has to be earned. I also believe in virtuous circles, like, nothing is fun until you are good at it. It is great if you can instill in children the ability to not give up, to have a work ethic.

— Amy Chua

I didn't have high self-esteem when I was a teen-ager, as I think most teen-agers don't.

— Alanis Morissette

I am not someone who throws around the word 'self-esteem.' It is a fictional description.

— Nicolle Wallace

Well, we all know that self-esteem comes from what you think of you, not what other people think of you.

— Gloria Gaynor

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