Quotes About Self-worth

Let's take a little quiz. 1. Do you define your self-worth in terms of your job title or professional position? 2. Do you quantify your own success in terms of money, power, or prestige? 3. Do you fail to see clearly—or are you uncomfortable with—what comes after your last professional successes? 4. Is your "retirement plan" to go on and on without stopping? 5. Do you dream about being remembered for your professional successes?

More important, her curated self was a person she would admire—a hugely successful, hardworking executive. And she succeeded! But nothing is permanent, and now she felt like every hour of work was giving her less than the last, and not just less happiness—less power and prestige, too. Her problem was that the "special one" she had created was less than a full person. She had traded herself for a symbol of herself, you might say.

social comparison lowers our happiness.

And so it is when we professionally self-objectify: Our work is our medium, which is our message. We love the image of ourselves as successful, not ourselves in true life. But you are not your job, and I (as I have to remind myself) am not mine.

We know in our hearts that the objectification of others is wrong and immoral. But it is easy to forget that we can do it to ourselves as well.

Many success addicts confess that they feel like losers when they see someone else who is yet more successful.

If you love things, you will strive to objectify yourself in terms of money, power, pleasure, and prestige—idols all. You will worship yourself—or, at least, a two-dimensional cutout of yourself.

To adopt parts of life that will make you happy, even if they don't make you special.

I don't think I am really awesome. I think I have basic qualification to be an actor.

I'm not qualified to be a high-profile person.

At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.

That's an important lesson for me, to not qualify my experience against somebody else's. My experience is the experience that I wanted to have, and have created for myself, but it doesn't make me any more deserving than anybody else - or less.

I hope that my daughter grows up empowered and doesn't define herself by the way she looks but by qualities that make her a intelligent, strong and responsible woman.

I want to prove to other people that I have something in my mind and intellectual qualities, not just the ability to play football.

In the end, I know my qualities and I know I'm not Messi. I'm Bojan.

I live by my own values and if I'm appreciated for the qualities I value, that is enough for me.

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

I am definitely the queen. I definitely see myself as the queen.

I wasn't a cheerleader or the prom queen. I don't move through the world with a mirror in front of my face, and I've never been attracted to projects that had an emphasis on what I look like.

I am not a beauty queen, and I was not the popular girl in high school.

I never said, I am just a beauty queen or just an actress.

When you are a queen in your own country, why would you want to go anywhere else?

I want people to know that they are the masters, the queens, kings, and gods of their own story.

For me the question was, do I want my paycheck to be dependent on how other people think I look?