Quotes About Self-worth

Be ready to walk away. Remember, you only want this deal, you do not need this deal.

Fear of rejection is a sign of neediness—specifically, the need to be liked.

The serious negotiator understands that he or she cannot go out into the world spending emotional energy in the effort to be liked, to be smart, to be important.

Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world.

He who trades his identity for money will one day wind up with neither.

nobody likes to be made out to be morons, especially morons.

You can often outperform what other people think of you, but you will never outperform what you think of yourself.

Human identity is no longer defined by what one does but rather by what one owns.

A small bubble of self-esteem percolated up from my depths.

Why do people want to be so skinny? What do they think will happen when they reach their size-zero goal? What happens at zero? Zero means there's nothing left. Why does she want to disappear?

She felt her strong young body that she had never appreciated when she had it, constantly worrying that she didn't meet standards of beauty and not understanding how standards of health were so much more important.

Since I couldn't be the prettiest girl at the party I could at least make it uncomfortable for the one who was.

Nowhere is it written that you have to go down with the ship if you are only dating the captain.

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

And without good feelings about herself, she could not feel close to the goodness of the Mother.

To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth... is potentially to have everything...

I was just thinking that I started off OK," Jo said. "There wasn't anything different or wrong with me when I was born. I wasn't inherently bad or freakish." That's right, Jo," Lynn said. "Other people—my mother and father—did things to me that made me feel all wrong about myself," Jo said, another warm wave of new, sure knowledge washing over her.

I had never before considered that people near me might have problems that were not caused by me. I had been created to please people. If the people around me weren't happy, I must be doing something wrong. Lynn helped me see that I lacked the power to make other people feel anything.

When I was with my mother, I sometimes thought of myself of a trophy—something to be flaunted before friends. When out of public view, I sat on the shelf ignored and forgotten.

I was just thinking that I started off OK," Jo said. "There wasn't anything different or wrong with me when I was born. I wasn't inherently bad or freakish.

When I was with my mother, I sometimes thought of myself as a trophy-something to be flaunted before friends. When out of public view, I sat on the shelf, ignored and forgotten.

No one has the right to make you feel like a nothing, but if there is an internal part of you that feels like a nothing, then you are more inclined to identify with the negativity your partner projects onto you.

The psychological tragedy is that when one turns to others for constant recognition, validation, and approval, one cannot hold onto one's own experiences as measurements of success emanating from external reality

What I will no longer accept is the mediocre life of a modest little gentleman.