Quotes About Self-worth

I knew immediately that this was not going to work out. Hunter is the kind of guy who dates women who wear high heels and a cocktail dress on a first date. I can't even walk in heels, and I generally believe that someone has to earn the right to see my legs.

How many of us allow others to define us and thus we become what they want us to be, not what we should be or could be?

Ellen had long ago stopped being embarrassed by temper tantrums. She flipped it and wore it like a badge of honor. A temper tantrum was a sign that a mom said no when it counted.

I read, therefore, I matter.

It doesn't matter who she is, it matters who you are.

Don't think on what they say, because you don't have to get yourself right with them. You have to get yourself right with you.

I don't want to be less than, so some guy can feel more than. Capisce?

You are a haenyeo! Never for one moment believe you are unworthy.

I accepted these limitations, knowing that my worth was based entirely on the child growing inside me.

I know I'm the most precious person in my family, but I wasn't precious enough for my birth family to keep me as their one child.

For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me – as a girl and later as a woman – to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.

an awareness of your own worth is the most attractive quality in the world.

It's not how we feel about someone that makes us love them, Annie, it's how they make us feel about ourselves.

What did the kids call it these days? Sweaty tryhard? When you bent over backward to get someone to like you?

I'm not old, but I've misused my body and let others misuse it, and I think it shows.

It's such a female thing, to reflexively apologize for everything, for your very existence it sometimes seems.

But what she hadn't realized was that this imaginary respect she craved was only granted to older men. She hadn't understood that when her body started to weaken and sag, when her beauty faded, she would become invisible.

The reward for all high performance must be sought within itself or sought in vain.

This is how we define ourselves now, our worth determined by how many people like, follow, engage.

God help you in America if you are not thin and fit, attractive, athletic, and coordinated, driven to win at any cost. God help you if you are broken or sad, or even just cerebral, or artistic, or just want to be left alone. You will be told in a million different ways—directly, subliminally—just how deficient you are. But nowhere will the message be

Kuh-laire, Is cam a fattening Girl Scout Cookie layered with peanut butter and a chocolate coating? No. Then dont make him a tagalong!

I'd rather be a friendless loser than have a bunch of friends who secretly hated me. (spoken by Massie Block)

Are you slow-witted? I'm so sorry for you. It's terrible to be dull and stupid.

No matter what has happened, you're not a pig-boy; you're an Assistant Pig Keeper!