Quotes About Self-worth

Any man who is truly worthy must consider himself unworthy.

Happiness does not have to be deserved, earned, worked for or paid for; it simply has to be accepted.

You can only be held back by your past if you use it to reject yourself in the present. Your

Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

Being liked was not much of a reward for being poor and disrespected. By the same token, money and respect were more than enough consolation for having a pack of insecure neurotics dislike me.

Driving over the bridge separating downtown Kansas City from the old airport, my commission check safely locked away in my briefcase, my attorney looked over at me and asked, "Well, how do you feel?" Without hesitating, I looked at him and replied, "Deserving.

During the ensuing heated discussion, he said two things that would ring in my ears for the remainder of my days at Screw U. First, he said, "You have a lot of nerve trying to earn $15,000 on one deal. I mean, you're only a broker." Wham—right between the eyes. Talk about painting a clear picture of how I was perceived by a lender.

One reason why the human race as a whole has not measured up to its possibilities, to its promise; one reason why we see everywhere splendid ability doing the work of mediocrity, is because people do not think half enough of themselves. We do not realize our divinity; that we are part of the great causation principle of the universe. We do not know our strength and not knowing we can not use it.

Anyone who can feel that way about a woman is worth lovin himself.

The High Chair Tyrant who attacks his human host is the perfectionist; he expects the impossible of himself and berates himself (just as his mother did) when he can't meet the demands of the infant within. The Tyrant pressures a man for more and better performance and is never satisfied with what he produces. The unfortunate man becomes the slave (as the mother was) of the grandiose two-year-old inside of him.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

Perhaps conscience did not always produce cowards. Sometimes it made a man feel better about himself.

The roots of workaholism are truly sown in narcissistic homes; 'I do, therefore I am

It is not being homeless that matters, my rich dad said. It's about who you are. Keep striving and you become somebody. Quit and you also become somebody ... but not the same person.

The inability to recruit recognition from others cripples an identity.

They needed me, Mackilwraith; they needed me. And if there is one thing which utterly destroys a boy's character, it is to be needed. Boys are unendurable unless they are wholly expendable.

You know who you are. You know who God says you are. Live up to that, and it doesn't matter what others think or say.

Posso não ter suficientes qualidades para ser vossa rainha, senhor, mas tenho demasiadas para ser apenas vossa amante.

With the knowledge of her aloneness came a rush of self-declaration: I will not be nothing.

And since I am the only one who sees you, why are you not then beautiful?

Rosie hated her curly golden hair. When she was old enough to hold minimal conversations, the itsy-bitsy-cutesycoo sort of grown-ups would pull the soft ringlets gently and tell her what a pretty little girl she was. She would stare at this sort of grown-up and say, "I am not pretty. I am intelligent. And brave.

She had always been the least of the sisters, called Beauty because she had no other, better characteristic to name her as herself.

I'm not a goddam invalid!" I howled at Charlie. "I don't need to be treated with gloves and—and bedpans! Will you please tell me I'm being a miserable bitch and you'd like to upend a garbage bin over my head!" There was a pause. "Well, the idea had crossed my mind," said Charlie. I stood there, buttery fists clenched, breathing hard. "Thank you," I said.

buying him clothes to improve his self-image • finding a therapist for him and begging him to go • financing expensive hobbies to help him use his time better • going through disruptive geographic relocations because "he's not happy here" • giving him half or all of our property and possessions so he won't feel inferior to us • providing him with a place to live so that he can feel secure