Quotes About Self-worth

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now." Zaphod glared at her again, then laughed.

Poor Buoyancy: The realization that one was a better person when one had less money.

Listen to a woman groping for language in which to express what is on her mind, sensing the terms of academic discourse are not her language, trying to cut down her thought to the dimensions of a discourse not intended for her (for it is not fitting that a woman speak in public) or reading her paper aloud at breakneck speed, throwing her words away, deprecating her own work by a reflexive prejudgment: I do not deserve to take up time and space.

Borrowed plumes.

E un fenomen foarte des întâlnit. Dac? v?d vreodat? pe cineva care pare s? aib? o p?rere foarte bun? despre sine ?i se laud? f?r? încetare, ?tiu de fiecare dat? c? undeva exist? un tainic sentiment de inferioritate.

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.

A woman should have a certain respect for herself and not submit to humiliation

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes—they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.

Bir sanatç?n?n doyum bulmas?, yap?t?n?n ba?kalar? taraf?ndan be?enilmesi, alk??lanmas?yla olanakl?d?r ancak. Bunu yeni anl?yorum. Ben de, zekâm ve kurnazl???mdan ötürü hayranl?k toplamak isteyen bir zavall?y?m.

Your criminal is someone who wants to be important, but who never will be important, because he'll always be less than a man.

People take you at your own valuation.

It is not so simple as it seems," he ended. "There is the desire for power and very often a strong inferiority complex.

Celebrity, to me, is not a thing to seek.

Be realistic, Aiden, I told myself. You know your value to the penny and it's measured in inches, time, age, stamina, looks, and being able to put up with gross and sometimes bizarre situations. Personality was far down on a much longer list, and even farther down came intelligence. You should have insisted on having sex.

You should know a weapon doesn't make the man.

Don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don't doubt yourself.

It is not insult from another that causes you pain. It is the part of your mind that agrees with the insult. Agree only with the truth about you, and you are free.

My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.

The most important opinion, of both my work and my conduct in life, is my own.

neither money nor my work define me. I like them, they allow me to do many things I enjoy, but if I did not have them, I know I would be able to find something else to do, I would be able to survive, I could be happy. Sometimes

If that was your reality, I think you'd have a completely different attitude about the value of life, including your own. Mostly,

the deeply held, sinister belief that perhaps HIV is physical evidence of our own unloveableness.

How we see ourselves and what we base our worth on are primary motivators throughout life.