Quotes About Self-worth

No, you're not like me. You're better. A better person, a better goddamn everything. Now, eat your breakfast. And if you open your mouth to say you aren't everything I know you are, I'll stuff that bagel in it. Plain. Without cream cheese. Healthy food--the ultimate threat.

How can I love when you're so cheap?

Everybody loves your life but you

all Nice Guys developed the same paradigm: "If I am good, then I will be loved, get my needs met, and have a problem-free life.

By trying to please everyone, Nice Guys often end up pleasing no one — including themselves.

Since Nice Guys learned to sacrifice themselves in order to survive, recovery must center on learning to put themselves first and making their needs a priority.

The seeking of external validation is just one way in which Nice Guys frequently do the opposite of what works. By trying to please everyone, Nice Guys often end up pleasing no one—including themselves.

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Most men get their deepest conviction of self-worth from a woman, wife, mother, or if they are highly conscious, from their own anima. The woman sees and shows the man his value by lighting the lamp.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

Yet the notion that you're paid what you're "worth" is by now so deeply ingrained in the public consciousness that many who earn very little assume it's their own fault.

Once this person this counselor at school, this LADY, if you know what I mean, told me that if you kept your nose to the grindstone you could be someone in the world, and I thought, Yeah someone with a fucked up nose.

Few are humble, for it takes a self-esteem few possess.

Among the things that you, and you alone, are the absolute and final judge of is whether or not you are a success.

Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.

One learns to ignore criticism by first learning to ignore applause.

No, when the fight begins within himself,A man's worth something.

When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.

When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.

Feeling like we were not lovable to our own parents makes it very difficult to believe that anyone can Love us.

I spent most of my life feeling like I was being punished because I was taught that God was punishing and that I was unworthy and deserved to be punished. I had thrown out those beliefs about God and life on a conscious, intellectual level in my late teens - but in Recovery I was horrified to discover that I was still reacting to life emotionally based on those beliefs.

Everyone in a codependent society has to have someone to look down upon in order to feel good about themselves.

The way we do that is to change the attitudes and beliefs within us that tell us that we are not Lovable.

We need to let go of the illusion that we can control this life business. We cannot. We never could! It was an illusion. And we need to let go of the false beliefs that tell us that we are bad and shameful. We cannot become whole as long as we believe that any part of us is bad or shameful.