Quotes About Self-worth

Me, personally, I don't really care about as far as being the highest-paid receiver, man. It's a number.

I have to live up to the love I am receiving.

I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear, but it's a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges.

You have to make the effort with children. You can't have them thinking that I reckon I'm special, otherwise they'll start thinking they're special. I want them to feel normal for as long as possible because God knows they'll reach an age when they'll be told they're not.

Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.

'Correct' is a song and an exercise for me where I've been able to reclaim who I am and the good that I've done when in real life sometimes I struggle with that.

If you are not a feminist in love, you fail to recognise someone who does not love you. Feminism makes love easier. Otherwise, there is the danger of feeling romantically drawn to someone who does not see you as an equal.

Loner heroes do appeal to that part of yourself that feels as though your genius hasn't been recognised.

I always want to be recognised for the work I do and not the company I keep.

When the work that you put in is recognised, it makes you feel very proud.

To have a little recognition, that is very nice, you dig. It is good for the ego, for the psyche.

The more comfortable you become at accepting recognition, the more comfortable you will be with giving it.

People often say, 'I don't need recognition,' and the truth is they are right. We don't need it. But like healthy food and exercise, life is a whole lot better with it.

I was never going to be the one to get recognition because of my looks.

You've got to recognize, there will never be another you. It has nothing to do with ego; it happens to be the truth. There will never be another person the same. There'll never be another you.

People recognize me - but if you've been in the public eye as long as I have and people don't recognize you, I feel bad about myself.

I guess I want very much to be recognized for my abilities, for the work I put in, and yet it's still always there - who my parents were. As much as I love my parents, if that was the last thing ever said about me - that I was their daughter - I would be disappointed that my contributions weren't strong enough on their own.

My mother is a phenomenal woman, but when I was younger, I had this fear that I wouldn't be recognized for who I am.

I think most of my life I have not felt recognized.

I have an ego like everyone else. I want to be recognized as a good ballplayer.

I don't feel any great need to dress in funny-looking clothes and be recognized as a star, nor do I get that much satisfaction out of hanging around all the main clubs so people can see who I am.

People always say that I'm just a beautiful face. So immediately, I knew what I wanted. I wanted to be recognized to be more than that.

Like I say, Michelin is Michelin. It's nice people are recognized, but at the end of the day, the star doesn't define you, it's what you do with it, and it's what you do in life in general. I think it helps you with the business, but it doesn't help you as a person.

Although I'd spent many years of dreaming of being applauded for my work and recognized... once it happened I didn't quite know how to sit in it comfortably. I almost lamented it for a little while.