Quotes About Self-worth

Later, she would question what life might have been like with someone who saw her as more than a gleaming trophy—a prize who began to lose her luster the moment she was won.

Roma?" I was surprised, though I knew Roma was a perennial problem. She could be cruel, but despite a few truly alarming incidents, I tried to believe that Roma was, at heart, a good person. Charlie had once asked, "Mom? What do I do if every time I see someone, I feel bad about myself?" "Sweetheart," I'd said, "you can try to make friendships work, but it's OK to just let some people go.

Modesty's for folk with nothing to boast of.

If you judge your thoughts worth hearing, pronounce them proudly, push them to every corner of the chamber, fill the hall with your hopes and desires and make every listener share them! If you are ashamed of your thoughts, better to leave a silence.

Very little worth anything is ever given away.

You know the trouble with a pretty face?" Judge was saying. "People get used to its advantages, and when it's took away, they lack the wherewithal to make a success of themselves. Nothing sadder'n a person who used to be beautiful. They have this desperate smile. Like me, it says. Like me, even though there's nothing left to like.

It wasn't lost on Vick that he was giving her the same compliments she'd just given Tallow. Some people you reel in by making them think they need you. More often, it's making them think you need them. People want to feel good about themselves. Want to feel needed. Vick wondered if she'd been reeled in already. Long ago.

Why's your name Yolk?' 'Er... don't know. Was my father's name... I guess.' 'Think you're the best part of the egg, do you, Yolk?

Besides, a man who's moved by grovelling will never get enough grovelling for his taste.

Your problem is in caring what they call you.

A man who's moved by grovelling will never get enough grovelling for his taste.

Self-respect permeates every aspect of your life.

She wished she were not so aware of the vast gulf between what the men in her life thought she was worth and her actual value. She had, it seemed to her, always asked and expected too much and given too little. She seemed almost to have a perverse impulse to make anyone who cared about her regret it, to find the thing that would most appall those people and then do that until they had to run away as a matter of self-preservation.

Why am I not good at anything?" "You're a good dad." "It ain't rocket science." No, Vic thought. It was harder.

If you gotta tell them who you are, you ain't nobody.

I was a shy kid and I was afraid what i said sounded stupid, so I hardly ever saud anything. I was the third wheel. Fifth wheel? I was the fucking wheel you didn't really need, but I still hung around. I thought maybe my silence would one day impress somebody. As of yet, it hadn't done much for me.

I wear my headwrap because because a headwrap is a crown, and I am a queen. [—Erykah Badu]

God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.

You may make some mistakes - but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

You can take pride in yourself without comparing yourself to anybody else. If you run your race and be the best that you can be, then you can feel good about yourself.

You were never created to live depressed, defeated, guilty, condemned, ashamed or unworthy. We were created to be victorious.

When nobody else celebrates you, learn to celebrate yourself. When nobody else compliments you, then compliment yourself. It's not up to other people to keep you encouraged. It's up to you. Encouragement should come from the inside.

Who told you that something was wrong with you?

If people talk about you, being jealous, critical, and trying to make you look bad, don't let that change you. You don't need their approval when you have God's approval.