Quotes About Self-worth

Love and self-esteem are constructed through likes and followers.

Today you have that exposition of your body on social media and you also have this big competition of finding 'likes' and followers and that is for me a new kind of finding love.

I cannot be so bad when everybody is so fond of me.

The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.

I used to worry I'd make a fool of myself, but I don't care what anyone thinks of me anymore.

I was called fool's gold. That's what I was called in the draft combine. That's how I remember it. I took it personal.

We like to say Miss America is the classy one. It has a talent category. I would have been dead last in Miss USA - I'm five foot three, I'm not a model, and I never wanted to be one.

I'm gonna be called Shaquem Griffin the football player, not Shaquem Griffin the one-hand wonder.

I wish I had some strapping football player husband. It would be such a dream to be 'normal' like that, but I'm just not.

How can I be a great football player when you're not happy with yourself?

Maybe some people look at me and just see a footballer, or a black footballer. But I am much more than this. I tell my best friends all the time, 'If you look at me as a footballer, and not as Little Kouli, and not as your friend, then I have failed in life.'

In India, we are parented in a way that we get very good values. But the whole culture forgets to tell us to also value ourselves. It's really OK sometimes to take into consideration your own happiness.

You still remember your SAT scores. And everybody else does too. Everybody's forgotten everything about themselves, everything else about high school. They remember their SAT scores.

I retired when I was 40. I started when I was 19. I never wanted to be a guy who was a shell of his former self and have people say, 'He's not as good as he used to be.'

I don't take reviews seriously. I don't even read them. Who is this person blasting forth his opinion? What's his worth, and how different is he from any man on the street?

Fortunately my career has never been about how I look, it's about how I can be.

I never pay a fortune for clothes.

I am convinced that you don't need to spend a fortune to look like a million.

My face has always been my fortune anyway, not my body.

Not that I am ashamed of my mind or body, my birth or breeding, my actions or fortunes, for my bashfulness is in my nature, not for any crime.

Now, I don't think I'd particularly care if somebody criticised me for having got to a certain level of success because I'm Ed Fox's and Joanna David's son. I know that's not true.

Fragile egos are put on the line every day.

You have this life in this body, and it's really fragile. But what you have inside is what you have to offer, and it's just as important as anyone else's.

It is no longer important for me to be seen in every frame.