Quotes About Self-worth

De verdad quieres que yo sea tu problema? ¿No te parezco demasiado gorda para problema, y a parte demasiado flaca para solución?

No siempre los imbéciles salimos tan imbéciles como el imbécil que nos menosprecia.

The most delightful of all music, that of your own praises.

Ressaisis-toi, bonhomme. Il n'y a q'un seul dieu sur terre, et c'est toi. Si le monde ne te convient pas, réinventes-en un autre, et ne laisse aucun chagrin te faire descendre de ton nuage. La vie sourit toujours à celui qui sait lui rendre la monnaie de sa pièce.

Au diable la reconnaissance si elle est dispensée par des gens qui ne t'arrivent pas à la cheville.

Idiota! Pareces haber olvidado las enseñanzas que llevo años impartiéndote: el único amor importante es el que se siente por uno mismo. Nadie en el mundo se merece quedarse con parte de él.

Tous les drames sont possibles lorsqu'un amour-propre est bafoué

Envidiar es renegar de sí mismo, joven. Te vuelves triste y malvado y no ganas nada a cambio. Los únicos momentos que importan son los que nos producen alguna alegría. Lo demás es puro derroche. Si quieres escribir, escribe. Pero no es criticando el talento ajeno como se afianza el propio. El talento no es negociable.

There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.

Despising yourself, thinking you are no good, saying 'I can't do this.' This is the mind of weakness. You must work to overcome it.

Sympathy for the spinster. I'm perfectly content, thank you. And I refuse to be defined by my boyfriend. Or lack of. Once you decide not to worry about that stuff anymore, dating and relationships and love and all that, it's like you're free to get on with real life.

You know what I can't understand? You have all these people telling you all the time how great you are, smart and funny and talented and all that, I mean endlessly, I've been telling you for years. So why don't you believe it?

You know what I can't understand? You have all these people telling you all the time how great you are, smart and funny and talented and all that...So why don't you believe it?

You know what I can't understand? You have all these people telling you all the time how great you are, smart and funny and talented and all that, I mean endlessly, I've been telling you for years. So why don't you believe it? why do you think people say that stuff, Em? Do you think it's a conspiracy, people secretly ganging up to be nice about you?

I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that.

When they look at themselves they see nothing that was valued by their parents.

but our self with a small "s" actually enjoys an impoverished life and all the negativity that goes with it: feeling unworthy, being invalidated, judging others and ourselves, being inflated, always "winning" and being "right," grieving the past, fearing the future, nursing our wounds, craving assurance, and seeking love instead of giving it.

Once we love ourselves, people no longer look good to us unless they are good for us.

Attention from others leads to self-respect. Acceptance engenders a sense of being inherently a good person. Appreciation generates a sense of self-worth. Affection makes us feel lovable. Allowing gives us the freedom to pursue our own deepest needs, values, and wishes.

Attention from others leads to self-respect. Acceptance engenders a sense of being inherently a good person. Appreciation generates a sense of self-worth. Affection makes us feel lovable. Allowing gives us encouragement to pursue our own deepest needs, values, and wishes.

Anne Lamott advises, "Try not to compare your insides with other people's outsides.

The Gremlin is the doubting voice inside your head that's always carping, always telling you that you're not doing things well enough, or that you should be doing something else

Recovery [from codependency] may not always be comfortable at first for the other people in one's life. But it is always worth it because, actually, nobody ever respects a 'doormat'.

Whenever you feel compelled to put others first at the expense of yourself, you are denying your own reality, your own identity.