Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

I'm just not self-deprecating.

Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject.

Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one's balance. I think that it's very damaging.

Self-love is the source of all our other loves.

In general, for me, a big thing in my life has been just sort of learning what true self-esteem is and what true positive self-image is. And being a dancer, and growing up in that world, you're so focused on yourself, and you're so focused on achieving goals, on finding perfection, and working on your craft.

You're never as good as they say you are, you're never as bad as they say you are. That's a quote I live by.

Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.

I remember the time I said, 'I don't think you love yourself. You need to learn to love yourself.'

One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.

Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.

The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.

Only a person who considers himself too good for you is good enough.

If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am?

Do I think well of myself, think myself a nice chap? WEll, I am afraid I sometimes do (and those are, no doubt, my worst moments).

We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice.

You have to be able to appreciate who you are.

I try to remind myself of the things that I like about myself that make me who I am.

Self-love is really a foundation for everything, and however you practice or express that is so, so important.

I feel like I appreciate and love myself a lot more than I used to. At one point, I would look in the mirror; I just hated what I saw... and finally, when I was 17, I built some confidence, and now I try to keep that confidence going.

I'm firmly convinced that true beauty only springs from the acceptance of oneself, from an awareness of who we really are.

The deepest gift you can learn in life is about self-love, and that's not going to happen overnight.

I know I'm not the best, but I'm proud of myself.

I'm not the most loathsome man in the world. I've dropped to number nine.

I think I finally overcame my self-esteem and confidence issues at around 20.

I've worked very hard on my self-esteem, and I know my value.