Women is there a difference between self-esteem and confidence?

i think their is
self esteem is like being able to reassure that oneself is beautiful
confidence can be something that is turned on and off-it can be gained though experience and self esteem comes from how one thinks about themselves

Self esteem is how you feel about your self, its not just a female thing. I have male friends who have low self esteems about verious aspects of themselves. I have low self esteem of how people important to me view me, at times.
But the confidence issue is seperate. I am confident that I am a great worker, mother, friend etc.
Self esteem is messsed up emotions and like I said, yeah, guys have it too, get out in the world, dude.

self esteem is how you feel about yourself, confidence is what you show the world.

yeah there's a big difference...
i have a very high self confidence level...
i know I can do anything I want to if I set my mind to it, and I don't let anything stand in my way...I think that is self confidence...Knowing you can do something, and having the ability to follow through...
however, I have a low self esteem...
i try way to hard to impress people...
i spend too much time on my outfit, and make up and hair, and I'm always striving for perfection to make those around me happy, but I've lost myself along the way...
im currently working on my self esteem lol

they are different, but usually they go hand in hand. if a girl says she lacks confidence, she probably also has some self-esteem issues.

I see self esteem as having a good value of oneself and self confidence as having the confidence to do whatever one wants to do.

For example I believe I have a lot of self esteem BUT sometimes I'm not confident enough to go up and randomly talk to a very attractive guy especially if he's in a group of other attractive guys.

There's not much of a difference... The only slight difference is that self-esteem is referring to pride in yourself and confidence would be more like belief in yourself. :)

Yes, one can be seen as the cause of the other or they are correlated; low self-esteem can lead to lack of confidence, but they are still separate entities. Just because you have confidence doesn't necessarily mean you have high self-esteem and vice versa.

I think so. You can value yourself highly but still lack confidence.

They're definitely different. You can fake confidence, but you can't fake self-esteem.

confidence is when YOU THINK you are awesome cool bad whatevr
Self esteem is when you just act a way without thinking
people use the wrong words alot

What EasyEC said. Confidence is the outward expression, while self-esteem is the inward evaluation. Despite the fact that the two are often correlated (low self-esteem, low confidence), they are not the same.

Self-esteem is how you think of yourself. You can think of yourself negatively or positively (low/high self-esteem). You can also be unsure/sure of your evaluation (weak/strong self-esteem).

Confidence is your choice in partaking in some behavior. If your self-esteem is strong, the opinions of others may be unable to influence your self-definition. As such, it makes it easier to choose certain behaviors that others wouldn't do (for fear of disapproval or ridicule). Confidence is merely the color that coats the behavior, rather than self-definition that allowed that behavior.

The difference between the two is that self-esteem is an inward feeling and confidence is an outward projection (that only occurs piggybacked with behavior). Both of them can be faked, but continued observation results in the appearance of continuity breaks in their character. That sort of observation is what I do to see the depth that girls are faking it. Women tend to be better at this sort of checking in general and can even test men to see if they're just playing an act.