Quotes About Self-worth

When we are treated well, we naturally begin to think that we are not altogether unmeritous, and that it is only just we should treat ourselves well, and not mar our own good fortune.

Don't you think men overrate the necessity for humoring everybody's nonsense, till they get despised by the very fools they humor? said Lydgate, moving to Mr. Farebrother's side, and looking rather absently at the insects ranged in fine gradation, with names subscribed in exquisite writing. The shortest way is to make your value felt, so that people must put up with you whether you flatter them or not.

I have no ground for the nonsensical vanity of fancying everybody who comes near me is in love with me.

No todos podemos hacer conquistas cuando nuestra fealdad ha pasado su mejor momento.

Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old.

I think women are taught to ask permission about everything. We don't realize that we are entitled and we do have a say in our lives.

Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.

We women are fools to do so much for the man we love. And we forget to stand for ourselves.

When you see the way some people write women, especially in studio movies, it's like, 'Sorry! Sorry for being alive!' Women are so apologetic.

When women are trying to keep a man, just make sure it's a man that you want to keep. You know, he might be cute and drives this type of vehicle and has a nice little bank account, but is he really somebody that you would want?

By the time I left college, I had won every award you could win - I was Mr. Man! Then I got drafted by the Giants, and you step in that locker room, and you feel inferior in every way. You just have to stick around long enough to give yourself the opportunity to build your confidence.

I used to try to get revenge on the critics, but now I realize I've already won, and it doesn't matter what people say.

I won the crown for what I am - I'm certainly not going to let go of that!

I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.

I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it.

I wonder if it is harder for a woman who was beautiful to get older or a woman who was never looked at.

Sometimes I wonder why I'm not working at McDonald's and how come I have the life I have. I don't know. But I'm happy that I have these choices. That's kinda sappy, huh? But whatever, acting beats pumping gas.

I always wondered if I was supposed to be excellent at something or not. I think, because of that, I have a lot of insecurities about myself.

There's nothing wrong with being proud of who you are. It's a wonderful thing.

If you sell yourself short before you even start, you'll never know how far you could have gone. Ambition is a wonderful thing and has gotten me farther than I ever thought I'd go.

I know I'm wonderfully made, and nobody can take that away from me. So regardless of what I show you or expose to you, you don't have any bearing on my worth and what I mean.

My parents always instilled knowing that your beautiful, that your fearfully and wonderfully made, and that you know who you are.

It's no accident that I'm not married and don't have kids yet. Because, despite what I've achieved in my career, I'm always wondering when somebody's gonna tap me on the shoulder and say, 'OK, the gig is up.'

I don't want to be wondering about how skinny I am, wondering what I'm going to eat because I don't want to gain and I want to look hot and young, always and forever.