Quotes About Self-worth

Someone else's success does not equal a failure for you.

Someone else's success is not your failure.

To attain "success" without attaining positive self-esteem is to be condemned to feeling like an imposter anxiously awaiting exposure.

Your success does not depend on the failure of others.

A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.

When there's so many haters and negative things, I really don't care.

We hurt ourselves not by what we ask for, but what we settle for.

Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.

Your success will have everything to do with how you perceive yourself, because how you perceive yourself is how others will perceive you, too.

We are selling ourselves very short by funneling our energies into what the traditional perception is of academic and monetary success.

I constantly think I'm a fraud, that this success is not warranted or justified.

I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.

Just because my bank account hasn't swelled astronomically I don't consider myself any less of a success.

Success is total self-acceptance.

You are the most influential person you will talk to all day.

It's cool to have critical success because it's always nice for your peers to say, 'Good job.' But who cares about them?

Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.

European standards of beauty are something that plague the entire world - the idea that darker skin is not beautiful, that light skin is the key to success and love. Africa is no exception.

You are unfortunately most of the time defined by your success, when your success is not a major part of your personality.

I believe that a lot of our striving after the symbols and levers of success is due to a basic insecurity, a need to prove ourselves. That done, grown up at last, we are free to stop pretending.

I don't really care if they like me or not.

In some ways, it's easier to settle for someone else's version of success than to risk falling short at one's own.

There is no such thing as Success....That a thing is successful merely means that it is; a millionaire is successful in being a millionaire and a donkey in being a donkey.

Success is peace of mind in knowing you did your best.