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Quotes About Self-worth

Wer die Schule hingegen ohne Abschluss verließ, lernte früh, sich unwürdig zu fühlen, er war 'unfähig'. Das Loblied auf die Bildung verschleierte die Tatsache, dass Zugang zu ihr beschränkt war.
~ Annie Ernaux
je n'attends pas d'un homme qu'il me féconde Ã¢â'¬â€œ comme une chienne Ã¢â'¬â€œ et ensuite lui montrer les dents.
~ Annie Ernaux
Shame-bound people honor their thoughts more than their instincts, especially the internal voices that constantly tell them how worthless and inferior they are. Spontaneity is limited by internal scrutiny, which binds and disempowers the will.
~ Anodea Judith
We teach others how to treat us.
~ Anonymous
People are full of great advice... Professors, parents, friends mean well... But in the end, the person driving this thing called life is you. Listen to you. Spend time being alone. Learn your worth. Dream. And never forget where you came from.
~ Brooke Baldwin
I think my biggest problem as a creative person trying to work within a business for profit was that it was very important to me that people liked me. Over the years, observing other showrunners who made work that I so admired, I realized that that had to go. This couldn't be my first priority. My first priority had to be the work.
~ Marti Noxon
I'm determined not to lose my name. It's who I am. It has neither aided my progress nor hampered it. It's just who I am.
~ Ioan Gruffudd
All the work that I do, whether or not it ends up being commercially successful or not, feels like the most important thing to me while I'm doing it. I try to take something away from every project, and so they all feel like milestones for one reason or another.
~ Michael Ian Black
For the longest time I was trying to please others. I can blame the whole world for each film that went wrong but if I'm not happy about a project I cannot give my best.
~ Shriya Saran
There are many projects that I would have loved to be a part of, but I was not high-profile enough, or I had the wrong look. That's just something you have to expect.
~ Rose McIver
I don't want to play a prop in a film.
~ Urvashi Rautela
I would never want to be treated as a prop, to be looked on as an object just because of my gender.
~ Shweta Tripathi
Sure, I know that I cannot speak in proper English. I know that I can't sing in proper English. I don't care.
~ Concha Buika
Of course, who you are and what's inside your head is more important than how you look, but that isn't going to be nurtured properly if you don't feel comfortable in your own skin.
~ Vick Hope
I know I am not the first woman to ask this, but how can I be both damaged and loveable? How do I become the protagonist of a story?
~ Jenny Zhang
Your voice matters, so protect it.
~ Christopher A. Wray
I think people should be protected from being made to feel that they want to know what somebody famous had for breakfast.
~ John Hurt
I am proud of my height.
~ Tabu
We want to be proud of ourselves.
~ Jennie
I'm happy. I don't care what other people say or think. I'm happy. I'm blessed. I'm proud of my life, and that's it. That's all that matters.
~ Kevin Federline
I know I'm not the best, but I'm proud of myself.
~ Viola Davis
It's OK to want to feel beautiful - as long as you really do the work on yourself to be the kind of person you are proud of.
~ Erin Foster
I never believe in going to America with my show reel and knocking on every agent's door. I couldn't even do it. I'm way too insecure and too proud.
~ Carice van Houten
People try to tell me like that, 'Oh, you shouldn't be proud,' or, 'You're not this,' or, 'You aren't that,' or whatever the hell. I'm just kinda here to say, like, who is anybody else to tell me who I am or what I've gone through or what I haven't gone through?
~ Logic