Quotes About Self-worth

The unnecessary burden of living a life of trying to please others, which is essentially impossible, nearly killed me.

I've learned that my value isn't in how many records I've sold or how many concert arenas I've filled or how many awards I've won. We can't define ourselves simply by how much money we've made or how well we've done on the job or in school. I realize now that my value is in my ideas, my willingness to share in order to help others, my ever-growing desire to stand firm on an issue and not back down.

Loving yourself means realizing you're greater than the title on your business card or the grades on a school progress report. Whatever you think your purpose is in life now, know that it isn't necessarily your destiny, and destiny isn't purpose.

If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air.

Measure your wealth not by the things you have, but by the things for which you would not take money.

You cannot really unconditionally love others when when you need to prove your own self worth

And me? I'm a mess. I'm nothing and have nothing: make something of me. You can do it; you've got what it takes— but God, don't put it off. (Ps. 40:17)

I've never wanted anybody to like me because I had long hair or short hair, or that they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I smile.

He had seen the ambitious and the proud seek to raise themselves above their kin, and in so doing corrupt themselves, make themselves into things of contempt. The true nobility did not need to prove itself. It simply was, a fact as indisputable as the orbit of planets and the majesty of stars.

The truth is, all I really want is someone who will care about me for who I am, rather than what I look like.

To the artist, all problems of art appear uniquely personal. Well, that's understandable enough, given that not many other activities routinely call one's basic self-worth into question.

I do not know many Negroes who are eager to be "accepted" by white people, still less to be loved by them; they, the blacks, simply don't wish to be beaten over the head by the whites every instant of our brief passage on this planet. White people will have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when they have achieved this which will not be tomorrow and may very well be never the Negro problem will no longer exist, for it will no longer be needed.

Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.

It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I'd been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.

Pity the clever girl who marries for money and then falls in love with her own husband.

Even though I have not mastered it, I now have a better sense of what makes us want others to think well of us, and how we can prevent that desire from ruling in our hearts. False Narrative: My Value Is Determined by Your Assessment

Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves.

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

You are the shuckiest shuck faced shuck in the world!

You're special somehow. Never forget that. And never forget how much.

Tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them.

If you care about what others think of you, then you will always be their slave.

All violence is an attempt to replace shame with self-esteem.

We all start out thinking that there is such a thing as perfection and that there's something wrong with us if we settle for less. First we won't eat the food with the brown spots. Then we hate ourselves because we have our own brown spots—pimples or ears that are too big or legs that are too skinny.