Quotes About Self-worth

The alcoholic has a deep sense of inferiority, inadequacy, defeat and frustration, usually accompanied by a deep inner hostility. He has countless alibis as to his reason for drinking, but the sole reason is in his thought life.

I was trying not to be happy, hopeful. I did not believe I deserved happiness or even hope, if you knew my soul.

She had no existence, in herself. From earliest childhood she had believed this. Rather she was a reflecting surface, reflecting others' perception of her, and love of her.

Never can you climb over this wall, you're not strong enough; girls aren't strong enough; girls aren't big enough; your body is fragile and breakable, like a doll; your body is a doll; your body is for others to admire and to pet; your body is to be used by others, not used by you; your body is a luscious fruit for others to bite into and to savor; your body is for others, not for you.

Katya laughed and shrugged. She was a hired girl; she said such things on order. Much of her life was this sort of semiskilled playing to other people, usually older people, with the hope of making them like her; making them feel that she was valuable to them; wresting some of their power from them, if but fleetingly. It was like provoking a boy or a man to want you. That could be risky, as Katya well knew.

A familiar story, Marya instructs herself—a woman yearning to be completed in a man, by way of a man. As if she hadn't a soul of her own.

and if men looked at her she stiffened feeling her jaws tighten her blood beat with dread and if men did not look at her, if their glances slipped past her as if she were invisible, she felt yet a deeper dread: a conviction of not merely female but human failure.

No has fracasado, aunque no hayas estado a la altura de la exaltada idea que tienes de ti misma.

It was Corinne's secret belief that her daughter was a far finer person than she was herself, a riddle put to her by God. I must become the mother deserving of such a daughter—is that it?

It had given him a charge of entitlement and invincibility he would draw upon through life, like a limitless bank account.)

I tried to think of what my father would tell me. 'Don't let any boy give you shit.' But he'd never said how we should go about preventing this.

God's love for me is perfect because it's based on Him not on me. So even when I failed He kept loving me.

If you can believe the God who is perfect loves you then you can believe that you are worth loving.

I learned that what happened to me did not have to define who I was. My past could not control my future unless I allowed it to.

Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we are worthless. But no matter what has happened or what will happen, we will never lose our value in God's eyes.

When we are overly concerned with what people think we will be controlled by the thoughts and opinions of other people.

Whatever people think of us is between them and God and not our concern.

If you accept what people call you, you will start to believe it. Find your identity in Christ, not in what others say.

One great reason for hope is this: you are not a failure just because you have failed at certain things.

Knowing who we are in Christ sets us free from the need to impress others.

Understanding that we are forgiven and cleansed, and knowing who we are in Christ sets us free from the need to impress others. As long as we know who we are, we don't have to be overly concerned about what others think of us. Once we know who we are and accept ourselves, we no longer have anything to prove. When we have nothing to prove we can relax and be at ease in every situation.

You are not free until you have no need to impress anybody.

There is a difference in a person's "who" and their "do." God may not always be happy with what you do, but He is always pleased with who you are.

I believe people give their mistakes more power than they need. We should admit them, repent, and ask God to forgive us for them. We should also learn from our mistakes because by doing so, they can add value to our lives. Instead of allowing mistakes to make you feel guilty and bad, let them be your teacher, and always remember that just because you make a mistake does not mean you are a mistake.