Quotes About Self-worth

Not the man who has much, but the man who is much is the fully developed, truly human man.

I feel like people start to believe things that people say about them and start to think they're really important. If you have a family that is down to earth and cool, I don't see how you can be like that.

She'd been doing the same things for so long: auditioning, seducing, preening. What if she turned it around, and let the world try to win her for a change?

When I receive letters from girls that say, 'You give me confidence ' I think, 'Wow, this is amazing.' That's my goal: to let people know it's truly what's on the inside that counts.

I could get rejected for jobs in acting, directing, or writing for the rest of my life, but nothing would ever take away what the experience of directing my first feature film had taught me: that I know myself better than I think I do and that I know my worth better than others think they do.

sayg?nl?k sat?l?k bir kad?n gibidir

When we revere our human form we respect other human beings, who are so similar to us, for their innate worth. This is the starting place for developing a social conscience.

Whitman said, 'I am as bad as the worst but, thank God, I am as good as the best.' You ought to spend more time with people who know how bad they are.

Your father says you're the smart one." "Not the pretty one," I said. I was mortified. "Oh, you can fake pretty," she said.

I'm always the Skinny Girl, the one with no athletic talents, the girl who doesn't try hard enough, the girl who apparently never eats enough.

There's an old Southern saying that if you're worried about your weight, clothes, or getting old, then you don't have any real problems.

All I ever wanted in my life was to be treated as an individual. I have succeeded, to some extent. At least I'm sure that in the Lord's eyes, I am an individual. I am not a "colored" person, or a "Negro" person, in God's eyes. I am just me! The Lord won't hold it against me that I'm colored because He made me that way! He thinks I am beautiful! And so do I, even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful! -Bessie

I tried very hard not to ponder the horrible irony that I was too ugly to love, and too ugly not to violate.

Don't worry about being good enough, Patrick. Just worry about being happy. Whoever makes you happy, that's who's good enough for you.

I don't know why you stuck with me. I just wanted to be worth it, that's all.'

Yes. You couldn't make anyone else happy. He tried to tell himself that, and drink through the buzzing little voice saying that, for a few short weeks, he actually had made someone else happy. And Owen had made him happy too.

That must be rough, wanting to be the rag doll, wishing you were the ragged thing, when all you did wrong was be too perfect.

This sadness, this discomfort—this wasn't the judgment of someone who didn't want to join the party. This was the judgment of someone who'd assumed the party wasn't for them.

Oh Galen—I've never been anybody's first choice. There's no reason for that to start now.

Such a simple concept. But then, the withy reed was always so in awe of the oak, it never occurred to it to grow.

feeling like you're a failure in the romance department because you couldn't sprout wood if you woke up as fertile soil and the other guy's dick was bamboo.

called you fat because I knew other lovers had done so, and it was easy to drive you away. I didn't believe it. I've never believed it. I've never even thought it. Everything else I said, it was to push you away. I know you know that—but you need to believe it. I cannot face you if you think I look at you and see anything less than the man you are. I am not settling for you, I am reaching for you, and there is a difference, and you are that man.

How was it this kid walked this earth like he was a part of it, and Jeremy had only ever felt like a flea on its back? There had to be a flaw, Jeremy

You don't have to be half-naked to be successful. Just be talented.