Quotes About Self-worth

I often wonder how it is that most people value their own lives above others, yet value other's opinions of them over their own self-opinions.

Everyone gets one life. Yours is almost used up, and instead of treating yourself with respect, you have entrusted your own happiness to the souls of others.

Ultrájate, ultrájate a ti misma, alma mía! Y no encontrarás luego la ocasión de adquirirte el honor que a ti misma debes. Breve es la vida de todos. La tuya se te pasó casi toda, y no te aprecias cuando, por el contrario, mides tu felicidad por lo que acontece en las almas ajenas.

You want the praise of people who kick themselves every 15 minutes. The praise of people who despise themselves?

Whatever is beautiful owes its beauty to itself, and when it dies its beauty dies with it. Praise adds nothing to beauty, makes it neither better nor worse.

neither was there any man that ever thought himself undervalued by him, or that could find in his heart, to think himself a better man than he.

Que no te aparte que detrás venga la crítica o la palabra de algunos, por el contrario, si está bien hecho o bien dicho, no te subestimes. Ellos

Don't worry about what others think. Mind what you think. Watch the movements of your mind, and focus your thoughts on something worthy.

But by reverencing and prizing thine own mind, thou shalt make thyself pleasing in thine own sight, in accord with mankind, and in harmony with the Gods, that is, grateful to them for all that they dispense and have ordained.

Often have I marvelled how each one of us loves himself above all men, yet sets less store by his own opinion of himself than by that of everyone else.

Mea mihi conscientia pluris est quam omnium sermo

My conscience has more weight for me than the opinion of the whole world

Cuando un pueblo está decidido a ser esclavo y se halla degradado, es una locura tratar de animar de nuevo en él el espíritu de orgullo y honor, de libertad y amor a las leyes, pues abraza con entusiasmo sus cadenas con tal que lo alimenten sin ningún esfuerzo por su parte.

You are rich in every way, and I am nothing but the reflection I see in your eyes.

And she finds it difficult to believe—that a person would love her even when she isn't trying. Trying to figure out what other people need, trying to be worthy.

I am not your justification for existence.

I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more than valuable. I repeat my former name; remind myself of what I once could do, how others saw me. I want to steal something.

You think I'm not a goddess? Try me. This is a torch song. Touch me and you'll burn.

For if the world treats you well, Sir, you come to believe you are deserving of it.

Which of us can resist the temptation of being thought indispensable?

He doesn't understand yet that guilt comes to you not from the things you've done, but from the things that others have done to you.

When I was younger I used to think that if I could hug myself tight enough I could make myself smaller, because there was never enough room for me, at home or anywhere, but if I was smaller then I would fit in.

He doesn't understand yet that guilt comes to you not from the things you've done, but from the things that others have done to you.

And he couldn't stand to be nothing, to know himself to be nothing. He needs to be listened to, he needs to be heard. He needs at least the illusion of being understood.