Quotes About Self-worth

nothing can defeat you unless you defeat yourself.

Our culture tells us to pursue titles and trinkets, applause and acclaim, money and mansions. All that's fine—it truly is—so long as you don't get brainwashed into defining your worth as a human being by these things. Enjoy them, just don't get attached to them. Have them, just don't base your identity around them. Appreciate them, just don't need them.

Failing to keep self-promises is one of the reasons so many of us don't love ourselves. Not following through on what we tell ourselves we'll do so destroys our sense of personal worth and dissolves our self-esteem. Keep behaving like that and the unconscious part of you will begin to believe you're not worth anything.

But it goes deeper than social approval," the industrialist indicated. "The grade of work you offer to the world reflects the strength of the respect you have for yourself.

Yo no tomo drogas. Yo soy una droga».

Ljudi ne provedu život u osrednjosti zato što su prose?ni. Oni se tako ponašaju jer su zaboravili ko su zaista. Prihvatili su mišljenje drugih ljudi i sebe su po?eli da doživljavaju kao 'prose?ne' i 'obi?ne'.

The more you are as a person, the less you need to prove yourself to others.

La comparación es el ladrón de la felicidad» —contestó el millonario—. Siempre hay alguien que tiene más fortuna, más fama o más cosas que tú.

Espero que vivas una vida de la que te sientas orgullosa. Y si ves que no es así, espero que tengas la fortaleza para empezar de nuevo.

Most people can't stand themselves. So, they can never be alone. And silent. They need to constantly be with other people to escape their feelings of self-hatred over all their wasted potential, missing the wonders and wisdom that solitude and quiet bring. Or they watch TV endlessly, not realizing it's eroding their imagination as well as bankrupting their bank account.

I told myself I deserved some good luck, overlooking the fact that it would call for substantially more than luck to thrust me into one of those narratives where plain-Jane new girl catches the eye of inexplicably single Prince Charming, because somehow the new school has revealed her wild, irresistible beauty, of which she was never before aware.

You're better off without me. And I don't want to be around when you realize it.

I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.

You are one of the few successful persons I know. Me? Why? You know precisely what you are doing and you do it well. But I don't really do much of anything. And of course the quantity means nothing to you, nor the weight others place upon your actions. In my eyes, that makes you a success. By not giving a damn? But I do, you know. Of course you do, of course you do! But it is a matter of style, an awareness of choice—

He had learned that dignity could not be acquired from accoutrements and accessories; it cam unasked, it grew from one's ability to endure.

He once told a friend, "Perhaps my sensibility is the effect of an exaggerated estimate of my services to the U[nited] States, but on such a subject every man will judge for himself.

Desperately eager to please his parents, he had exhausted himself in trying to scrub sin from his soul.

second rule, learned from a lifetime of bad luck and trouble: Maintain a little dignity.

You're owed a refund on your manhood.

Which is why turning myself into a sex object now would be taking a big step backwards for me and all women in the department.

The result of being colonized is the internalization of the need to remain invisible.

Oh, I was young then, and I walked in my body like a Queen.

Even to someone as notorious as Madonna, I think Jesus would say, 'I'll help you experience the fulfillment that has eluded you despite your struggle to find it. I'll help heal whatever's driving you to affirm your self-worth in self-defeating ways. But I can only help you if you let me.

Grace liberates us. Our tendency toward performance imprisons us.