Word: esteem
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...known to be "more than stressed out" and had "very low self-esteem," friends said...
...teacher in the U.S. during the early '70s, I realized that achievement through persistence, self-discipline and hard work fosters self-esteem, self-reliance and many other positive qualities. Racism is bred in homes where children are deprived of the motivation that helps them to achieve. It is not racism that is a deterrent to success, but ignorance and personal vices. Minorities need only equal opportunity, education, pay and fair treatment. Like Connerly, I see myself as a color-blind American. Minorities will never be considered equal until they see themselves that way--as humans and Americans, not as minorities...
Money in their pockets, agrees Li Xiumin, is the prerequisite for confidence and self-esteem, and it is not easy to acquire in these rough hills. She has been working hard to teach the poorest villagers that the government is no longer going to provide them with handouts and that they have to take responsibility for their own economic advancement. That is the most difficult thing for them to change, she says. "The government has conditioned them in the opposite for so long," she says. "Now we have to make them understand that they must use their own enterprise...
Irene Wozny, 40, is an attorney for the Maryland Department of Assessments and Taxation in Baltimore. She is fortunate enough to have found work she enjoys, but every so often she gets derailed by chronic major depression, a mental illness that can cause a loss of self-esteem, an inability to concentrate and a negative outlook on life. Wozny has been troubled by the disease for as long as she can remember. Last year she learned of an experimental program for depression run by the National Institute of Mental Health, but in order to participate, she needed to arrive...
Later, in her hotel room, spent from shopping, she relaxes, but rarely looks directly at the interviewer, her eyes darting around the room instead. Why is she so self-conscious about self-examination? Blige says she only just started to build up her self-esteem. "I hurt myself because I didn't love myself," she says, then proceeds to analyze herself in the third-person style favored by Bob Dole. "I didn't like Mary, I didn't care about Mary, Mary didn't finish [high school] and did a lot of stuff she had no business doing because...