Children Quote by Muffy Mead-Ferro

“If a child is roughly treated and not respected and not shown love, the child will have problems with self-esteem”

— Sunday Adelaja

There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to build.

— Randy Pausch

...true self-esteem comes from competence, not the other way around.

— Susan Cain

Self-esteem is the goddamn root of all evil.

— Roseanne Barr

“A good general rule is that self-esteem for its own sake turns out to be much worse than merely reinforcing unearned positive feelings about…

— Dennis Prager

“By developing a contaminated, stigmatized identity, the child victim takes the evil of the abuser into herself and thereby preserves her primary attachments to…

— Judith Lewis Herman

“My sister said Mary Elizabeth is suffering from low self-esteem, but I told her that she said the same thing about Sam back in…

— Stephen Chbosky

“Throughout the world there is an awakening to the fact that, just as a human being cannot hope to realize his or her potential…

— Nathaniel Branden

Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.

— Gloria Steinem

“In the vast majority of cases, however, getting into trouble has nothing to do with one's self-esteem. It usually has much more to do…

— Lemony Snicket

“I wanted to show how humans can have ugly feelings that they might prefer not to acknowledge; how we’re all caught up in our…

— J. K. Rowling

The dangers of low self-esteem are more extensive than most of us realize.

— Senoraroy