Quotes About Self-worth

If they don't care about me, how can they possibly care about anyone else?

I don't post my work on social media. I don't have to.

You know, it was important for me to do something like that, because nobody ever really thought I could do anything except look sexy on a poster and go shopping.

Just because someone sends you some gloves you don't need to keep making several posts with them. That's not how it works, you have to value your image.

I read a fan bulletin board once, and somebody said I had a face like a potato, so I never went back on there.

Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.

There was a time when I felt that I was not getting work as per my potential.

Many feel discouraged because they have not measured up to their potential.

For me, I feel like every time I go out there, I have to prove something, because whether it's fans or the fighters I'm going to fight potentially or am scheduled to fight, there's always an excuse of why I won.

I was 15 years old, taken out into a parking lot on the set of 'Donny & Marie,' and at the time I was 5-foot-5 and 103 pounds - like, nothing. I was told I was an embarrassment to my family and the show would be canceled if I didn't lose 10 pounds.

You don't have to be 6-foot-7, you don't have to be 300 pounds. You can be 5-foot-2 and 135 pounds and still be one of the baddest dudes on the planet.

We should not pour muck on ourselves.

I made the mistake of pouring my entire identity into one single dream and convincing myself that I was not capable of anything else or creating any other dream.

If I was just considered a looker and wasn't considered an actor, where would I be in 10 or 20 years from now?

I saw the things that my sister went through - she's dark skinned - with boys not considering her attractive in her youth and the pain that it caused her.

People try constantly to use me, and I hate it.

I am very proud of who I am and what I've been able to do and accomplish for my constituents.

With someone who is genuinely abusive or a bad person, you should just get out of town. But if they're being the best person they know how to be, then you have to decide if there isn't much there you can love and not become consumed with what they're not able to give you.

You can't care what anybody else thinks - even though your life is out there maybe for a bit of public consumption.

Your sanity is harder to get back than money or contacts. You are the magic. You are the art. You can't lose that.

I don't have the similar amount of success like my contemporaries have.

I am content that the work that I've done is wonderful.

I don't measure myself in my contract in terms of what I'm making.

There is no one who would have me - I can't cook.