Quotes About Self-worth

The teacher said we're only supposed to spend fifteen minutes a night on our math. It took me a whole hour to finish. I must be dumb. PARENT: It can be discouraging when work takes longer than you expect.

I want my kids to know that they're entitled to be miserable without their mother falling apart.

I have insecurities of course, but I don't hang out with anyone who points them out to me.

But I do remember how I felt when he said I was pretty. I was disappointed. I felt my lack. I wanted to be beautiful. Beautiful suggests gravitas, importance. Pretty is lightweight and suggests 'somewhat'. I needed him to think of me as beautiful. I felt challenged, as though he had thrown down a gauntlet.

But you can vanquish the demons only when you yourself are convinced of your own worth.

You can vanquish the demons only when you yourself are convinced of your own worth.

Don't change yourself to be liked by others.

Why could I not have been born a hundred years ago? I used to ask myself. Somewhere about the time of the Wars of Liberation, when a man was still of some value even though he had no 'business.

What does a title mean to me? I do not need a title. My name, which I achieved with my own strength, is my title. I only wish that posterity would sometime confirm the fact that I have striven to achieve my program decently and honestly..

Do not compare yourself to others. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.

When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick - she never has to wait for someone to choose her.

I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys?

All the things I thought I was - simple and plain and sometime funny - are very small words. They do not begin to describe me. They do not begin to express what is inside of me. I have value, and I have worth. I cannot be replaced like old shoes or taken for granted like tap water.

its not so much about the shoes, but the person wearing them

I don't use a crap camera, I don't eat junk, and I'm not going to a dance where the boys are bores

I am not ashamed of my past; I am not ashamed of my humble beginnings.

You can't let your past hold your future hostage.

'Housewives' has shone a light on women of middle age, that you're not out of the game, you're not old, you're not put out to pasture... You're lively, you're doing things, you're aggressive, you're making money, you're recreating yourself.

I used the same hand to pat my back and to pick me up when I get shattered after losing out on a film due to reasons except your credibility to that role.

Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.

We're a big family. We all want to see each other win. But I don't introduce myself as LeBron James' friend. I'm Rich Paul. You have to respect me first.

The haters out there, I don't really pay attention to them, because I feel like I'm doing the best I can, and I just don't want that negativity into my heart and into my mind.

I don't really like to pay attention too much to what is being said about me, only because the people closest to me - my parents, family, and friends - know me best. So I feel like their opinions mean more to me than anyone else's.

I think people look at me different when they see I'm dressed well. They pay attention. They know I'm about something.