Quotes About Self-worth

I have always been taught to be proud of being Latina, proud of being Mexican, and I was. I was probably more proud of being a label than of being a human being, that's the way most of us were taught.

I feel like you hate your life more than you could ever love me. And I was stupid to think otherwise. I guess it's true what they say—love makes you stupid. Even a girl like me.

He can't get along without having someone pat him on the back and tell him he's doing all right, that he's a wonderful young man, and all that stuff.

I've exercised with women so thin, buzzards followed them to their cars.

The person has to learn to derive his self-esteem more from within himself and less from the opinions of others; he has to try to base it on real qualities and capacities, things he can make or do

Generally, the more anxious and insecure we are, the more we invest in these symbolic extensions of ourselves.

It is one of the meaner aspects of narcissism that we feel that practically everyone is expendable except ourselves.

When the average person…cannot hide his failure to be his own hero, then he bogs down in the failure of depression and terrible guilt.

But man is not just a blind glob of idling protoplasm, but a creature with a name who lives in a world of symbols and dreams and not merely matter. His sense of self-worth is constituted symbolically, his cherished narcissism feeds on symbols, on an abstract idea of his own worth, an idea composed of sounds, words, and images, in the air, in the mind, on paper.

ALFRED ADLER (in Ansbacher, 1946, p. 358) "The supreme law [of life] is this: the sense of worth of the self shall not be allowed to be diminished.

An animal who gets his feeling of worth symbolically has to minutely compare himself to those around him, to make sure he doesn't come off second-best.

He has to try to get as many ways of earning self-esteem as possible, to constantly broaden his skills, the things he genuinely takes pleasure in, in place of what others think he should take pleasure in.

Let him think that I am more man than I am and I will be so.

You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch.

You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch. Yes. It's sort of what we have instead of God.

A valuable thing too is never to let anyone know how fine you thought anyone else ever was because they know better and no one was ever that splendid.

You did not do so badly for something worthless,' he said to his left hand. 'But there was a moment where I could not find you.

But then we did not think of ourselves as poor. We did not accept it. we thought we were superior people and other people that we looked down on and rightly mistrusted were rich.

You know it makes me feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch.

You did not do so badly for something worthless,' he said to his left hand. 'But there was a moment when I could not find you.

Ar tu žinai, k? reiškia moteriai b?ti negražiai? Ar žinai, k? reiškia vis? gyvenim? b?ti bjauriai, o jaustis gražiai?

Popular! ' Dad roared. 'Popular! that's the magic word isn't it. That's what's the matter with this generation. nobody thinks about being smart, or clever, or sweet, or even attractive. No sir. They want to be skinny and flat chested and popular. They'd sell their soul and body to be popular, and if you ask me lot of them do.

The great tragedy that I have witnessed over and over again is that we keep underestimating how much God wants to do in us and through us. Too many of us have believed the lies we have been told: that we're not good enough, we're not smart enough, we're not talented enough, we're just not enough. One of the facets of God that makes him extraordinary is his ability to do the impossible through ordinary, everyday, common people like you and me.

eres el tipo de persona que se ha dado por vencido no solo en la vida, sino también contigo mismo?