Quotes About Self-worth

Many performers try to sustain a high point in their careers by keeping themselves around those who are overanxious to tell them how good they are.

It's important for a lot of young black males to value swagger over intelligence. Swagger is important, but intelligence must come before the swagger.

I've been told I looked like I swallowed an elephant or a pig, whichever was more fitting that day.

Of course, after like, three or four years of being called a loser and putting on bad suits and having the sweat and all that stuff put on me, it does start to get to you after a while.

It was kind of a hard lesson when I figured out that not everybody is going to be kind, be sweet. So I've learned that I am never going to make everybody happy. There's always going to be someone who can't stand the way I write, and I can't take that personally.

So, things aren't clicking with this sweet guy who keeps calling you. So what? Things like chemistry and fate and all the rest actually exist. You don't need to flip out if you're seeing a guy who's really nice to you and you're not attracted to him. It doesn't have to necessarily be because he's nice to you and you hate yourself.

I used to have a voice because I was interviewing people and writing, but as soon as I got swept up in the fashion world, I was just a pretty girl at a party wearing a pretty dress.

I know I'm enough with or without the gold medals. I just love to swim.

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.

How would you deal with it if you're 9 years old, people are telling you, 'You suck,' and they don't give sympathy? They don't feel bad for you because of who your dad is.

I really like to please people, and I think it's a symptom of being an only child.

Lazy doesn't exist. Lazy is a symptom of something else. The person who can't get up off their butt is just a person who's depressed. It's usually a pervasive lack of self-worth, or a feeling of helplessness.

I have that imposter syndrome.

What dragged me down was not being mayor - it was insecurity, the need to be accepted by everyone, the pleasure syndrome. That's what brought me down.

How long have we got to talk about women of colour and imposter syndrome. It's a real thing, and many people have it. It's, I think, a particular characteristic of the overachiever. Because you're bottomless, you never think what you've achieved is enough.

Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.

That's what happens when people take away their love, Bea. It makes you smaller. Sometimes, it makes you disappear.

Tab's mom said that when people reached out to hurt your feelings, it was because they secretly felt they deserved to be talked to that way. She said that they had 'long, hard roads ahead' and that you should just wish them well.

That's what happens when people take away their love, Bea. It makes you smaller. Sometimes it makes you disappear" -Sheila

Good enough is good enough. Perfect will make you a big fat mess every time.

First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt: "No one on the face of this earth can make you feel inferior without your permission.

Once you relize how good you really are, you never settle for playing less than your best

My skin's too white." she said. Says who, Snow White?" he said, touching her cheek lightly with one hand.

I have always considered it despicable to grovel for your life as if life were a favor. If you cannot live the way you want, there is no point in living