Quotes About Self-worth

I can bear it when other people have a bad opinion of me but it hurts too much when I have a bad opinion of myself.

when I had agreed to sell my life for a bit of gold. My father and my mother had both warned me about the danger of putting a price on everything, but I had not listened. Now, years later, I had convinced myself that, because I had been the first to find gold in La Florida, my life would be returned to me. But life should not be traded for gold—a simple lesson, which I had had to learn twice. It

There will always be enemies. Time to stop being your own.

Why hell yes, Joe Bob! A cripple can always get himself a wooden leg, or a glass eye, or a metal hook for a hand, or any of that mess -- but there ain't no known substitute for a big dick. I guess you is out of luck!

Earlier in his life he had done many foolish things in order to convince himself that he was not worthless

The reason I'm so crazy is because nobody cares anything about me. I don't guess there's anybody I care much about, either. It's my own fault, though - I haven't had the guts to try and do anything about it.

said quietly. "It's how much you're worth to yourself. It's what you really can feel that makes you nice.

Did it every occur to you that if you weren't living in fear of other people's opinions of you, no one would have the power to take anything away?

Tengo muy buen tino y muy mal carácter, capitán, El próximo tiro es para usted y le aseguro que puedo dispararle antes de que me maten, así es que mejor nos vamos respetando, porque si nos morimos, yo no le voy a hacer falta a nadie, pero de seguro la nación sí sentiría mucho su pérdida, ¿o no es así? Realmente

Just because you worked hard on something didn't make it worth doing.

She liked what she saw, although she knew being a not-beautiful woman was supposed to be a tragedy.

There will be boys who will tell you you're beautiful, but only a few will see you.

It is nice. But a pretty face is just a lucky accident. Pretty can't feed you. And you'll never be pretty enough for some people.

We wait to be rescued, but for whatever reason, no one comes. We figure that if no one protects us then we must not be worth protecting so we become prey and are easily picked off. Our wounded, kicked-puppy gazes attract sly predators and we sell ourselves for clearance sale prices, mistaking screwing for caring.

How can you make someone love you when they won't? How long are you supposed to keep trying?

A flower may be beautiful all on its own, but a person is never truly beautiful unless someone's eyes show him that he is beautiful.

No name-calling truly bites deep unless, in some dark part of us, we believe it. If we are confident enough then it is just noise.

Feelings are never stupid, they just make us feel stupid sometimes.

If you can't impress yourself, then no one else really matters.

There are some things more important than physical survival. You gotta be able to look at yourself in the mirror.

Self-doubt is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Not dating is a choice, not a failure.

Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt said that. It is a quote I try to live by.

A very ex-boyfriend once described me as a little china doll. He meant it as a compliment. I didn't take it that way. There are reasons I don't date much.