Quotes About Self-worth

He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others.

don't know why you feel you have the right to treat me disrespectfully and, frankly, I don't care. I've put up with it long enough, and I need you to stop treating me this way." ("I" phrase)

Going forward, I expect you to treat me respectfully. If you don't or can't, then please don't say anything to me. (compromise) I don't deserve to be treated this way, and I'm not going to accept it anymore

Are you busy proving your worth or living it? A critical distinction."

There is nothing lacking in you. You came into this life as an abundant being. You remain as such. Free your heart and mind from anything but this truth.

You are never left out from having the experience of love. You can always give and receive love right from where you are at. It is always up to you."

Now when those dark times happen, I curl into a ball on my cot and make a cape with my blanket. I remind myself I am not dust, but I should be. I tell myself I am made of the same cells as life itself even if I am a mistake.

I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness.

Sometimes I feel like I don't deserve happiness, especially now. Maybe I'm destined for an unhappy outcome.

People, including those who love us, only do what we allow them to do. They only suck up the energy we give.

Allow yourself to envision us together," he'd told her just last week. Stella shook her head. No, there was no future with someone she was ashamed to be seen with in public.

I can't kill myself, I thought. I'm too insignificant. I'm nothing. I'm a thumbprint on the first-floor window of a skyscraper, a smudge of excrement on a tissue surging out to sea along with millions of tons of raw sewage, a squirrel eating a nut as a car bore down on him.

Certainly. You don't owe him anything. As for me, I'm not that conceited. I'm not actually conceited at all. I merely think it's common sense to like myself.

We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.

To assert dignity is to lose it.

And I didn't stop hating my name until many years later, when I realized that it wasn't a name to be ashamed of, but one to live up to.

You've come to this juncture in your life, merely because something in you kept saying, "You deserve to be happy." You were born to add something, to add value to this world. To simply be something, bigger and better than you were yesterday.

the person who deserves your gratitude more than anyone else is you.

When you are grateful to be the person in the mirror, feelings of dissatisfaction, discontentment, disappointment, or I'm-not-good-enough completely disappear. And with them, every dissatisfying, discontenting, and disappointing circumstance in your life magically disappears too.

The reason you have to love You is because it is impossible to feel good if you don't love You. When you feel bad about yourself, you are blocking all the love and all the good that the Universe has for you

you deserve all good things life has to offer. You know that inherently, because you feel awful when you are experiencing the lack of good things.

you deserve all good things life has to offer. You know that

There is a truth deep down inside of you that has been waiting for you to discover it, and that truth is this: you deserve all good things life has to offer.

Why must I still see myself in competition with him? I wondered. Shouldn't I be content to be a wife and mother?