self-esteem

Once a girl's self-esteem is crushed, the effects are far reaching and long lasting.

For 381 days, no black person in Montgomery with a shred of self-esteem rode the bus.

It was her flaws, her failures, her struggles with her weight and her self-esteem, and her refusal to be shamed by them.

The price of being unable to perform is often paid in self-esteem.

Yes, I get that Always is attempting to build large, overarching connections between girls getting older and losing self-esteem.

To suddenly discover oneself proficient where failure had been feared increases self esteem and adds to the sum of happiness.

He was angry with himself, wounded in self-esteem, for having allowed any one to render him this service.

That was to be her punishment for having cut too deep into his self-esteem.

But I thought I would leave the word to him, without further attempt to reinstate him in his self-esteem.

The very worst way to induce a man to learn is to begin by telling him he is ignorant, and thereby insulting his self-esteem.