Quotes About Self-worth

If people care more for my clothes than they do for me, I don't wish to see them.

Zephaniah 3:17 states that the Lord "will quiet you with his love." So whenever those negative voices whisper that you're a worthless failure, let the Lord "quiet you with his love." Let God's love silence those hurtful voices from your past.

Aprendí que la mirada implacable con la que nos fileteamos y descuartizamos y despreciamos las mujeres es una mirada nuestra, una mirada interna, una exigencia loca con la que nosotras mismas nos esclavizamos

Últimamente la gente esta agarrando la detestable costumbre de ser menor que yo.

Los escritores solemos pensar que nuestros libros son lo mejor que nosotros somos y, si eso lo desprecian, ¿cómo no van a despreciarte a ti, que eres mucho peor que tus obras?

The feeling of superiority is a defect that tends to accompany a victim mentality...as if you deserved any merit for being a product of fate.

you've got enough

Rhett: Here's the problem. I am not the sexual equivalent of an espresso machine.

Yes you are pretty, and when you pictured perfect, you came damn close, but the part of you I like the most is inside.

That I made a mistake, and that mistake doesn't define me.

Now we determine each other's worth by asking, 'What do you do?' If you say 'nothing', people move away from you as if you're a corpse.

La Envidia es la Religión de los Mediocres. (Pedro Vidal en El Juego del Ángel)

Do you dare imply that this useless sword is worthy of me?- Sesshomaru

It made me sad when I caught myself pretending that everybody out there in cyberspace cared about what I thought, when really nobody gives

We place such crazy importance on physical appearance in our image-obsessed culture, on youth and beauty to define our sense of self-worth, that aging, by default, becomes a kind of defect, something secret and corrosive and shameful.

You are who you are, Benny Oh. Just don't let anyone tell you that's a problem.

It made me sad when I caught myself pretending that everybody out there in cyberspace cared about what I thought, when really nobody gives a shit.30 And when I multiplied that sad feeling by all the millions of people in their lonely little rooms, furiously writing and posting to their lonely little pages that nobody has time to read because they're all so busy writing and posting,31 it kind of broke my heart.

what's the point in beating yourself up when other people will do it for you?

That's the thing about Jiko, one of her superpowers, is that just by being in the same room with you, she can make you feel okay about yourself.

You are who you are Benny Oh. Just don't let anyone tell you that's a problem.

I'm just an actor, and no more interesting than you are. She scribbled her name. Probably not as interesting, actually You should pay more attention to yourself and less to people like me. You'll be better off that way.

But when people flatter you constantly it is very tempting to think that you deserve it.

Lady #1, Maki, had never once given any thought to what was really right for her in her life, simply believing that if she surrounded herself with super-exclusive things, she'd become a super-exclusive person.

I thought if I were beautiful enough, all my dreams would come true. But you don't steady beautiful forever; one day you wake up and it's gone, and then where are you? Dreams are made with blood and sweat and tears.