Quotes About Self-worth

Once you accept you are being judged by people who have less knowledge than yourself, then what's it worth?

No one can figure out your worth but you.

Quase todos nós gostamos de acreditar que somos imprescindíveis, que contribuímos com algo através da nossa existência, que esta não é inútil nem completamente indiferente. Quase todos nós gostamos de acreditar nisto, mas a maior parte sabe que não é assim... Tudo funcionaria da mesma maneira sem nós, porque somos comutáveis e substituíveis.

Inspiration is a trick that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

You have to be enough for yourself, Maddie. No one else can do it.

Appreciation starts from yourself, or from nobody at all.

One friend experienced enormous dukkha when she realized that men no longer looked at her when she walked down the street.

Because what were older women meant to do with themselves, besides prop up everybody else's lives and drink too much wine at book club meetings? No one, Laura was convinced, was as invisible and as easily dismissed as the tribe of women like herself, with short gray hair and glasses.

Dignity is particularly important.

Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief, in their own gifts.

You can't know how I dreaded appearing in school in those miserable poor box dresses. I was perfectly sure to be put down in a class next to the girl who first owned my dress, and she would whisper and giggle and point it out to the others. The bitterness of wearing your enemies cast-off clothes eats into your soul. If I wore silk stockings for the rest of my life, I don't believe I could obliterate the scar.

It's setting a pretty high value on his own soul. I should never rate mine as being worth a lifetime of effort.' 'I suppose a person's soul is worth whatever price he chooses to set.

I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.

Happy Valentines Day to those who have found love, in whatever shape or form, and to those who are still hunting, don't give up. If you feel bad, send yourself a card. You must be worth it...

Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?

No, you stupid idiot, there's nothing wrong with you. You're perfect.

A pity, ' he said, without a trace of mockery. 'It seems that those who possess the greatest beauty appreciate it the least.

Depression isn't a thing that lifts or disappears just because of a change of scenery. The voice follows you no matter where you go, reminding you that you are worthless.

Exercising will builds esteem from within through action on one's own behalf; it disproves the premise that only another person can provide it. The result, long in coming and always worth the effort, is the experience of authentic agency in your own life, a sense of self that cannot be destroyed because it is not dependent on anyone else.

What they call you is one thing, but what you answer to is so much more important.

Just because we are females doesn't mean we

Let life kick you off your pedestal time and time again, until you lose all interest in being on pedestals.

In a world where income and possessions were limited, words represented dignity, pride, self-worth.