Quotes About Self-worth

I was always the black sheep of the family and always told that I was dumb, and I had a low IQ and did badly in school.

I'm not going to please everyone; not everyone's going to like me. I accepted that a long time ago, and if I had to shed a tear every time I got a hate email, believe me, I'd be severely dehydrated.

I'm not going to shed a tear for not being liked.

I basically built myself up and I'm not about to let somebody else tear me down.

I don't know why people like to tear others down to make themselves feel better.

Reading nice stuff about you is lovely, but I know it's going to be soul-destroying when you do something that everyone is tearing apart.

Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff.

I really think you get the jobs you're supposed to get. And don't stress over the jobs that you don't. That would have saved me so many tears and so much frustration.

I paid for my name a lot when I was growing up because other kids teased me.

I wasn't the best in my class at the Royal Academy. There was a really good soprano and baritone who were technically better and are doing really well in opera now. But I was definitely the best mezzo-soprano in my class, because I was the only one of those!

Much protective self-criticism stems from growing up around people who wouldn't or couldn't love you, and it's likely they still can't or won't. In general, however, the more you let go of the tedious delusion of your own unattractiveness, the easier it will be for others to connect with you, and the more accepted you'll feel.

It never hurts to tell your teen they matter more than their looks.

I'm not just a child star. And I'm not just someone's sister. And I'm not just a teen mom.

For teenage kids, they feel a pressure to sweep things under the rug because they feel like they're not important enough to have problems.

Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.

I think most of my childhood, adolescence, and teenage years, I was struggling to feel validated - which led to a lot of my career choices as well.

I didn't have any relationships in my teenage years, as I felt I was not attractive enough.

When I was a teenager I hated having Bloomberg as a last name and being seen simply as someone's daughter. I used to shy away from it in every way. As I got older, I began to realize that it was something I could use to make a difference in the causes I cared about. I learned to be proud of my last name.

Teens should always remember they are unique, special, and bring something to the world that no one else can.

Grit your teeth and smile. In the face of adversity, go. They don't deserve you.

I changed my thinking on the whole subject of what it is to be attractive. It's fine, but I know that ultimately what I am and who I am is not cheekbones and a jawline, if you catch my drift. I ultimately know that who I am is not directly proportional to abs or straight teeth.

Let me tell you, I am nobody's puppet.

Everyone is living for everyone else now. They're doing stuff so they can tell other people about it. I don't get all that social media stuff, I've always got other things I want to do - odd jobs around the house. No one wants to hear about that.

Everybody in this world deserves to show what they can do without anybody telling them they can't.