Quotes About Self-worth

Badgerlock, I rather think …" "Prince FitzChivalry," I corrected him. I looked him up and down. "And do not make that mistake again." "Prince FitzChivalry," he accepted the correction. He opened his mouth and then shut it again. I turned away from him, holding his horse's reins and Thick's. "That wasn't the mistake," I said without looking back. "I meant your trying to think.

Deja de definirte por lo que no puedes hacer. ¿Por qué no piensas en lo que no has perdido?

What sort of person would cling to the hope that someone else would return to give meaning to her life? What sort of quivering parasite needed someone else to validate her existence?

How many doesn't matter after one," Chade had said. "We know what we are. Quantity makes you neither better nor worse.

I have since come to know that many men always see another's good fortune as a slight to themsleves.

Know your heart before you do, Fitz," he added. "If you've nothing to offer her, let her go. Are you crippled? Only if you decide so. But if you're determined that you're a cripple now, then perhaps you've no right to go and seek her out.

She had called herself a whore. That was a man's word, a shame-word flung at a woman. But she did not seem ashamed. She wielded the word like a sword, slicing away all his preconceptions of who she was. She had earned her living by her sex, and she did not seem to regret it.

Many men always see another's good fortune as a slight to themselves.

When a man's pride is all he has left, he holds it closely.

They need other people to make them think they're alive. They only feel like they're important if someone else tells them they are.

No. You stop. Stop thinking you're the son your father disowned. You're not who he expected you to be; that doesn't mean you aren't somebody. Nor are you perfect. Stop using every mistake you make as an excuse to fail completely.

I'm proud of you. It's not the kind of work a man does that says he can be proud or not. It's how he does it. Be proud of yourself.

The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will

Shame off you. Grace on you.

Do you see how we're drinking out of lovely, uniquely decorated china cups? Mine is different from yours, but they're both fine china. We're not drinking our tea out of Styrofoam or throwaway paper cups. It's like that with you. You're not a Styrofoam or throwaway paper girl. God made you to be a lovely, uniquely designed, fine china cup. That's how He sees you, and that's how I see you.

I always thought I just wanted to be loved and the reality is I chose only people who weren't capable of loving me.

My mama told me in college, 'I love you, and you're God's child, but natural beauty will only take you so far.'

You can't make someone feel good about themselves until you feel good about yourself.

She didn't want pity. Just to love a man and have a man love her. This was nothing to apologize for or feel weak or needy about. It just was.

What the society thinks is of no interest to me. All that's important is how I see myself. I know who who I am. I know the value of my work.

For the first time in my life, I realized that a man doesn't need to yell to be heard. A man doesn't have to throw a punch to make a point. And a man who is comfortable in his own skin doesn't need to constantly prove his worth to the world.

I was not the equal of my cousins in athletic ability or good looks, but I'd like to think God evened the score by granting me a modicum of common sense, which sometimes seems to be sadly missing in most descendants of Walter Kaminski, who have shown a tendency to live for the moment and think with their peckers.

There are a lot of people in this world who sell themselves short. They don't try to achieve their dreams because they're too paralyzed by the prospect of failure. You

with grades, with scores. I always had to be the best in my class. It felt like the only way I could measure my success, my self-worth. If you knew the time I put into preparing for the MCAT you wouldn't believe it—it verged on OCD. It's that insane.