Quotes About Self-worth

As long as you're down on yourself, feeling as though you don't measure up and can't get it right, that's not only going to keep you from enjoying your life, it's going to keep you from improving.

What they say about you does not define who you are. Their opinion of you does not determine your self-worth.

Sometimes what's holding us back is that we don't really know who we are. We think we're average, just ordinary, when in fact we are royalty. We are sons and daughters of the Most High God. When God breathed His life into you, He crowned you with His favor. He put a robe of righteousness on you. He says, "You have been fearfully and wonderfully made." Don't go through life with a cheese-and-crackers mentality. Have a son mentality, an abundant mentality.

Don't compare yourself. Celebrate yourself.

When thoughts tell you, "Who do you think you are?" just answer back, "I'm a child of the Most High God. I am redeemed, restored, accepted, and approved.

But as long as we have a slave mentality, it will limit our life.

If you believe the lie that you're a slave, that you've reached your limits, it will keep you from your purpose. You need to rise up and say, "I'm no longer a slave, I'm a son. I'm not a slave to my past. I'm not a slave to the people who hurt me. I'm not a slave to addiction, to poverty, to lack, or to depression. I'm a child of the Most High God.

Quit being frustrated by people who are not for you, people that make negative comments and try to discredit you, marginalize you. You're not defined by what they say. They don't control your destiny. That's just noise. Don't give them the time of day.

No tienes que pagarle a Dios por tus errores, porque el precio ya fue pagado. Cuando caigas, no te quedes en el piso; levántate. Cuando el acusador te susurre: "Mírate. Lo arruinaste de nuevo. Nunca lo harás bien", solo respóndele: "Sí, sé que no soy perfecto, pero he sido perdonado. Puede que no esté donde debería estar, pero estoy progresando.

It's good to admire people, it's good to celebrate their gifts, but don't get so caught up in who they are that you forget who you are. You are gifted, you are talented, you are one of a kind.

Don't allow someone to treat you poorly just because you love them. And don't let the ugly in others kill the beauty in you.

How much time are you spending down on yourself, feeling guilty for past mistakes, telling God what you don't deserve? That's a lot of emotional energy that's not doing any good. God hears you; He knows you're sincere. But God is not moved by our guilt; He's moved by our faith.

There are unimportant people in this world, but they are people who believe they are unimportant and that's what keeps them so.

When meeting with powerful people about things that matter,' he'd said, 'never play yourself down. It's unprofessional

but the one thing they'd taught him in the Academy that he already knew from his father was that a man only got as much respect as he gave himself.

Relying on the praise of others could become a habit, and those in the habit would seek that praise like an addict and his drug. Strength came through self-belief, and the belief of others without belief in yourself was useless. Chalk was still chalk, even surrounded by granite.

When meeting with powerful people about things that matter,' he'd said, 'never play yourself down.

You are never so low that you deserve to be lower.

When you know you're worth loving, you can be a little imperfect. Hell, look at me—a lot imperfect. It makes all the difference in the world when you believe someone loves you enough that they don't overlook the spot and the messed up hair. They just add it to the things about you that make them love you all the more.

Maybe because when you feel like nothing, you can't believe someone who's everything could possibly see the real you.

The more you think life is about having stuff and superiority and showing it off, the more unhappy, and the more depressed and anxious, you will be.

When they talk among themselves, advertising people have been admitting since the 1920s that their job is to make people feel inadequate—and then offer their product as the solution to the sense of inadequacy they have created.

Twitter makes you feel that the whole world is obsessed with you and your little ego-- it loves you, it hates you, it's talking about you right now. The ocean makes you feel like the world is greeting you with a soft, wet, welcoming indifference. It's never going to argue back, no matter how loud you yell.

Watch TV and you'll be told the only people who count in the world are celebrities and the rich—and you already know your chances of joining either group are vanishingly small. Flick through an Instagram feed or a glossy magazine, and your normal-shaped body will feel disgusting to you. Go to work and you'll have to obey the whims of a distant boss earning hundreds of times more than you.