Quotes About Self-worth

Do not wait for a coronation; the greatest emperors crown themselves.

Too much respect for other people's wisdom will make you depreciate your own.

A false path in life is generally something we are attracted to for the wrong reasons—money, fame, attention, and so on. If it is attention we need, we often experience a kind of emptiness inside that we are hoping to fill with the false love of public approval.

Acted like a king to be treated like one.

Confidence is important, but if it is not based on a realistic appraisal of who you are, it is mere grandiosity and smugness.

It's my world, and I don't want any other. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it doesn't know is not worth knowing.

If a person is measured by the regard they're shown by others, then maybe I'm not a person after all.

Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.

She was an extraordinary woman, and I went to bed that night feeling like I was perhaps more than ordinary myself. This was the effect she had on me.

I'm all you have in this world Mariam, and when I'm gone you'll have nothing. You ARE nothing!

They would make new lives for themselves—peaceful, solitary lives—and there the weight of all that they'd endured would lift from them, and they would be deserving of all the happiness and simple prosperity they would find.

I didn't know what the other guy was playing for, maybe just bragging rights. But this was my one chance to become someone who was looked at, not seen, listened to, not heard.

Durante un par de horas cada jueves, cuando Yalil la visitaba, entre sonrisas y regalos y palabras cariñosas, Mariam se sentía merecedora de toda la belleza y los obsequios que podía ofrecer la vida. Y por eso Mariam lo quería.

There was so much goodness in my life.So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.

Aku ingin memberitahu Ali bahwa bukan buku itu yang tidak pantas dihadiahkan kepadaku, namun akulah yang tidak pantas menerimanya.

I know I suck, I whispered, looking her in the eye, feeling desperate. I know I don't deserve you. Just don't leave me. Please? I'll be better, okay? Just don't leave me.

when the ambitious man whose slogan is 'Either Caesar or nothing' does not get to be Caesar, he despairs over it. But this also means something else: precisely because he did not get to be Caesar, he now cannot bear to be himself.

I have a name," I grumped, my stomach pinching me harder. "Yes, but it has no pizzazz. Ra-a-a-a-chel. Rach-e-e-e-eel," he said, trying it out in different ways. "No one will tremble in terror at that. Oh my God!" he said in a high falsetto. "It's Rachel! Run! Hide!

Oh God. "Jenks, you aren't a carton of milk with an expiration date. You look great—

I wanted to make decisions on who I loved by who completed me, made me feel good about myself. Who I could love freely and help make a better person by just being there.

He vivido toda mi vida con personas más fuertes que yo. Me gusta y no me da vergüenza ser el más débil. Jamás podré invocar un hechizo y me importa una mierda que tú sepas hacer algo que yo no…

Most people," he said, "are desperate to be needed. And if they don't feel good about themselves or think they're undeserving of love, some will fasten upon the worst possible way to satisfy that need to punish themselves. They're the addicts, the shadows both claimed and unclaimed, passed like the fawning sheep they make themselves into as they search for a glimmer of worth, knowing it's false even as they beg for it.

He fears me because he is small. I will not meet him there. I will not shrink myself down to his size, or anyone else's, for their comfort. For their appeasement. -Cackle by Kim Harrison

He fears me because he is small. I will not meet him there. I will not shrink myself down to his size, or anyone else's, for their comfort. For their appeasement. -Cackle by Kim Harrsion