80 Low Self-Esteem Quotes to Inspire Confidence
We all face moments of doubt, but the right words can remind us of our worth and help us rise above.
That’s why we’ve gathered the best low self-esteem quotes to offer comfort and inspiration.
And if you’re looking for encouraging sayings to uplift and empower, we also have you covered.
Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.
Best Low Self-Esteem Quotes
“Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-brake on.” — Maxwell Maltz
“If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.” — Marcus Garvey
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” — Lucille Ball
“Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.” — Les Brown
“How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.” — Rupi Kaur
“Esteem cannot be where there is no confidence, and there can be no confidence where there is no respect.” — Henry Giles
“You deserve someone who makes you feel like the otherworldly creature you are. Yourself.” — Amanda Lovelace
“One of the most important things you can accomplish is just being yourself.” — Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
“A lot of times we are angry at other people for not doing what we should have done for ourselves.” — Rupi Kaur
“Insecure people only eclipse your sun because they’re jealous of your daylight and tired of their dark, starless nights.” — Shannon L. Alder
“Low self-esteem is no better home to take a refuge. It does not keep you comforted from any danger; it keeps you confined away from your real belongings!” — Israelmore Ayivor
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” — Theodore Roosevelt
“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” — Oscar Wilde
“You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are.” — Yogi Bhajan
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” — William James
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
“Sometimes people with low self-esteem will try to punish you for caring about them.” — Wayne Gerard Trotman
“Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.” — George Carlin
“I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good. Maybe you’re not the best, so you should work a little harder.” — Jay Leno
“Lack of confidence is what makes you want to change somebody else’s mind. When you’re OK, you don’t need to convince anyone else in order to empower yourself.” — Jada Pinkett Smith
“It’s not the lack of ability or opportunity that holds you back; it is only a lack of confidence in yourself.” — Richard Monckton Milnes
“Many of us harbor hidden low self-esteem. We deem everything and everyone more important that ourselves and think that meeting their needs is more important than meeting our own. But if you run out of gas, everyone riding with you will be left stranded.” — T. D. Jakes
“When you are in the grips of low self-esteem, it’s painful, and it certainly doesn’t feel like pride. But I believe that this is the dark, quieter side of pride thwarted pride.” — Edward T Welch
“There is no such thing as perfect security, only varying levels of insecurity.” — Salman Rushdie
“Most bad behaviour comes from insecurity.” — Debra Winger
“It’s insecurity that is always chasing you and standing in the way of your dreams.” — Vin Diesel
“Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.” — Harold W. Dodds
“Of all the traps and pitfalls in life, self-disesteem is the deadliest, and the hardest to overcome, for it is a pit designed and dug by our own hands, summed up in the phrase, ‘It’s no use – I can’t do it.'” — Maxwell Maltz
“Diffidence is a sort of false modesty.” — Thackeray
“Diffidence is not always innocence.” — Mme. Necker
“Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward.” — Joseph Addison
“Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.” — Aristotle
“Bashfulness is a great hindrance to a man, both in uttering his sentiments and in understanding what is proposed to him; ‘t is therefore good to press forward with discretion, both in discourse and company of the better sort.” — Francis Bacon
“Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse.” — Samuel Johnson
“When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.” — George Mcgovern
“Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.” — Andre Dubus III
“The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual.” — Philip Zimbardo
“Shyness is just egoism out of its depth.” — Penelope Keith
“There is a shyness about me, and I really need to get out more.” — Priscilla Presley
“The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.” — Claudia Lady Bird Johnson
“You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness.” — Susan Lucci
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.” — Elbert Hubbard
“The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.” — Charles Kingsleigh
“You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” — Louise L. Hay
“You are enough just as you are.” — Meghan Markle
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — C.S. Lewis
“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.” — Samuel Johnson
“With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.” — Dalai Lama
“Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.” — Peter T. McIntyre
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” — Helen Keller
“Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” — Christian D. Larson
“Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.” — Vince Lombardi
“The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.” — William Jennings Bryan
“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” — Sam Levenson
Low Self Esteem Sayings
“Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth.”
“The worst part about being rejected is not the rejection itself, but the fear that it will happen again.”
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”
“Just because someone doesn’t see your worth doesn’t mean you are not valuable.”
“Don’t let your fears overpower your dreams.”
“Your mistakes don’t define you, they refine you.”
“The opinion of others does not define who you are.”
“You are not your mistakes; you are not the bad things that happen to you.”
“Your self-worth is determined by you. You don’t have to depend on someone telling you who you are.”
“Self-love is not selfish; it’s essential.”
“You are enough just as you are.”
“You are more than what you have become.”
“Your worth is not measured by your productivity.”
“You are not your thoughts.”
“You are capable of amazing things.”
“You are stronger than you think.”
“You are worthy of love and respect.”
“You are not defined by your past.”
“You are not alone in your struggles.”
“You are deserving of happiness.”
“You are enough, just as you are.”
“You are not your failures.”
“You are not your mistakes.”
“You are not your insecurities.”
“You are not your fears.”
“You are not your doubts.”
“You are not your anxieties.”
“You are not your depression.”
“You are not your trauma.”
“You are not your pain.”
“You are not your suffering.”
