Quotes About Self-worth

A lot of us have energy that we can tap into. We sell ourselves short.

Stop trying to impress people with your clothes and impress them with your life.

Children with more nature near their homes also rated themselves higher than their corresponding peers on a global measure of self-worth. "Even in a rural setting with a relative abundance of green landscape, more [nature] appears to be better when it comes to bolstering children's resilience against stress or adversity

Of course, if your ego can't get you to believe stories about yourself that make you feel superior, then it will look for ones that make you feel inferior instead. It will turn your thoughts to stories that make you feel weak and unworthy, as if you are an inconvenience, a burden on others, a failure, unattractive, incapable, or stupid.

If you are treated like dirt long enough, you begin to fell like dirt

There's a problem with marrying up. You always worry that someday they'll see through you and leave. Or, worse yet, someone better will come along and take her. In my case, it wasn't someone. And it wasn't something better.

You know, I've wondered if it's more painful to lose someone you love to death or to lose someone you love because she no longer loves you back." "I don't know," I said. "On the surface, it seems an easy question. It should be so much easier to lose someone who doesn't love you, because why would you want to be with someone who doesn't want you? But rejection's not an east road. A part of you always wonders what makes you so unlovable.

I've always believed that we don't choose the life we want, we choose the life we think we deserve. We self-sabotage as a way to punish ourselves." "Why would we punish ourselves? Doesn't the world punish us enough?" "Why wouldn't we? We live in a world that is always making us work for love. It's cause and effect.

Knowing your self-worth isn't something others can validate. You either believe it or you don't.

everyone has, to some degree, a subconscious belief in their own worthlessness. Narcissists have the same feelings, but instead of acknowledging them, they cover them up with a delusional denial of all wrongdoing.

We live in a world that's always making us work for love. It's cause and effect. That's the story of my childhood. If I can be good enough, maybe my mother will love me.

He didn't understand that one person's love is better than a thousand people's approval.

Nowhere is our vision more distorted than when we turn it on ourselves.

Or take fame for instance. For one brief moment, a man finds himself on a throne. And for a while he believes himself specialã…¡a little bit better than everyone else. But then he discovers that his throne is just another seat in an ongoing game of musical chairs and eventually he's gong to lose his place. Sometimes he spends the rest of his life trying to get back to the chair.

You will see that when it comes to the masses, the stupider the individual, the more they want to prove it to the world.

We live in a world that's always making us work for love. It's cause and effect. That's the story of my childhood. If I can be good enough, maybe my mother will love me. "The problem is, somewhere along the way you figure out that you can't ever be good enough. It finally just got to be too much for me. You hit this point where you just want to scream, 'Love me for who I am or get out of my life.

I spent most of my life trying to earn my mother's love before I learned that love can't be earned. Earned love isn't love; it's an emotional wage, a paycheck for time served.

If guys don't respect themselves, they don't respect other people. That's times and personalities. And all of them are not that way. But it don't take but one or two to screw up the whole crowd.

What a wonderful person I am!

If you want to, you can let go of any feelings of resentment, of regret, of anger. You can accept that you are a fabulous human being because of all the bad things that have happened to you, not in spite of them. What is done is done, and you need to just get on with your life.

What?" I asked uneasily. "Why are you looking at me like that?" He shook his head, the smile rueful now. "Because sometimes, a person can get so caught up in the details that they miss the whole. It's not just the dress or the hair. It's YOU. You're beautiful. So beautiful, it hurts me.

You're better than this. Better than whatever it is you're going to do now.

I'm not a warrior or a goddess," I said at last. Adrian leaned closer. "As far as I'm concerned, you're both.

You are an exceptional, talented, and brilliant young woman. Do not ever let anyone make you feel like you're less. Do not ever let anyone make you feel invisible. Do not let anyone—not even a teacher who constantly sends you for coffee—push you around.