Quotes About Self-worth

To be more confident you need to give a whole lot less of a shit about that other people think of you.

When you say, I need more confidence, what you're really saying is, I need those people over there to approve of me. That is the desire to control other people and what they think. The first person who figures out how to do this owns the world.

Confidence is a reduction of your own interest in whether others are thinking about you and if so, what they're thinking.

But then, look at me. My brain is incorrectly formed, and I'm shaped like a tube. Plus, I'm an alcoholic, a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, was raised in a cult and have no education. So, really, if you think about it, the only thing that separates me from the guy with the stinky foot and no teeth is a book deal and some cologne.

Do you understand that you are exactly attractive enough and thin enough (even if you weigh four hundred pounds) and smart enough and funny enough, even if you cannot tell a knock-knock joke without fucking it up? You are exactly everything enough to the person who thinks you are. Just like when you look at them, your eyes will get all wet and girly. Because of their beauty. Even if by any ordinary, reasonable standard, they're short and old and have bad skin.

If i wasn't an accident mustn't I be a crushing disappointment?

My worth depended on where exactly the decimal was placed among the zeroes.

Do you understand that you are exactly attractive enough and thin enough (even though you weigh four hundred pounds) and smart enough and funny enough, even if you cannot tell a knock knock joke without fucking it up? You are exactly everything enough to the person who thinks you are.

Put another way, to be more confident you need to give a whole lot less of a shit about what other people think of you. Confidence is not something you feel or possess; it's something others use to describe what they see when they look at you.

Do you understand that you are exactly attractive enough and thin enough (even if you weight four hundred pounds) and smart enough and funny enough, even if you cannot tell a knock knock joke without fucking it up? You are exactly everything enough to the person who thinks you are

When you say, "I need more confidence," what you're really saying is, "I need those people over there to approve of me." That is the desire to control other people and what they think. The first person who figures out how to do this owns the world.

When you say, "I need more confidence," what you're really saying is, "I need those people over there to approve of me." That is the desire to control other people and what they think.

I was drunk from the attention

Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.

If one doesn't respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.

The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.

Because, you see, God—whatever anyone chooses to call God—is one's highest conception of the highest possible. And whoever places his highest conception above his own possibility thinks very little of himself and his life. It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own. To imagine a heaven and then not to dream of it, but to demand it.

Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man's values, it has to be earned.

One must never allow oneself to acquire an exaggerated sense of one's own importance. There's no necessity to burden oneself with absolutes

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

I feel that others live up to me, if they want me.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's value.

You know, I think that only if one feels immensely important can one feel truly light.

I refuse to apologize for my ability—I refuse to apologize for my success—I refuse to apologize for my money.