Quotes About Self-worth

What is so 'only' about 'yourself'? Is not the first thing one has to learn in this respect that to do something for yourself--I mean, the right kind of thing--is just as valuable and ethical than to do it for somebody else? Wouldn't you say that the good feeling we get simply because we did 'it' (whatever) for somebody else is cheating, in that it postpones the question: what is it good for?

No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.

Walking with your chest out and your head held high says you have earned the right to stomp and pummel this particular piece of real estate.

Whatever people think of me is none of my business.

The amount of respect you have for others is in direct proportion to how much respect you have for yourself.

But I will not be ignored. The soul that lives inside this body will not be ignored. I am here to stay.

We often play small, so as not to threaten other people. We don't want to intimidate them by our brightness, but the truth is, you do them and yourself a disservice by dimming what you've been given—your intelligence, your light. Those are your gifts.

MOST PEOPLE'S IDEA OF WEALTH RELIES SOLELY ON HOW OTHER PEOPLE SEE THEM.

Ultimately, it's about the love you give and the love you allow yourself to receive. Everything else fades away.

He looked both proud and guilty of something. As if happiness was a reward and he wasn't sure he'd done enough to deserve it.

You stand outside the circle and wonder why you feel left out, unaware that you need your own permission to join the others-not theirs.

It made me sad when I caught myself pretending that everybody out there in cyberspace cared about what I thought, when really nobody gives a shit. And when I multiplied that sad feeling by all the millions of people in their lonely little rooms, furiously writing and posting to their lonely little pages that nobody has time to read because they're all so busy writing and posting, it kind of broke my heart.

When people flatter you constantly it is very tempting to think you deserve it.

No matter what, like, I couldn't - I could break a world record, get an Olympic gold medal, and my mom would be, like, you could have done better. But you looked pretty. That's what she says all the time.

But giving up's easy. You know what's hard? To believe in your own worth, to know you've got something special in you even if nobody else can see it. Even when you can't.

I am a Little King, but I am a King.

Just because somebody is ahead of you doesn't mean they're better than you. Just because somebody's more developed than you doesn't mean they're more talented than you. Just because somebody beat you doesn't mean they won and just because somebody didn't win doesn't mean they lost.

She carried herself with the thought that she was a decent person and she often wondered why the men in her life were not decent too

People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.

Kendimi herkesin ak?ll?s? ve duygulusu yerine koymak istemiyorum. ?ç ve gül...

No one had ever told them they were worth saving, and they were taught to believe they were forever lost to a world of thievery, prostitution and murder. But it wasn't true. They were capable of more. She could tell from the way some of them helped each other, the way others sat down at once to begin sewing, the way Ann took aside one of the little boys and patiently showed him how to pick a pocket—

Once we've got you properly done up," her aunt said, "and he hears of your newfound wealth, he's sure to look your way again." "I don't want him looking my way again. He was a pompous twit back then, and he's a pompous twit now." "Respectable, God-fearing men sometimes are, dear.

I have learned that I am enough... I have learned that no one else can LOVE ME - FOR ME.