Quotes About Self-worth

A lot of very beautiful women can be a pain because all they're thinking about is how they look.

The saddest thing for a girl to do is to dumb herself down for a guy.

I had never read a book written by an African-American. I didn't know that black people could write books. I didn't know that blacks had done any great things. I was always conscious of my inferiority and I always remembered my place - until the Civil Rights Movement came to the town where I was born and grew up.

When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured.

Soy lo que soy porque me lo he ganado gracias a errores y esfuerzos previos; es lo que merezco

Todo el mundo aconseja, no por bondad y desprendimiento, sino porque el consejo lleva implícita la inferioridad del aconsejado.

Nada rebaja más a un ser humano que los piropos —concluyó—. Y a ustedes las educan para creer que son adoradas al recibirlos.

También me gusta mucho Lucinda Williams cuando canta "Born to be Loved", casi un blues sobre el orgullo: "No naciste para que abusaran de ti, para perder / para sufrir, para nada. / Naciste para que te quieran". EVM

The esteem of others is outside our control; we must attend instead to healing ourselves.

Como Shakespeare dijo: "¡La culpa … no es de nuestras estrellas, sino de nosotros mismos, al consentir ser inferiores!

I had no idea how to do that, because I was either above or below everybody. I was either towering above as Clapton the guitar virtuoso, or cringing on the floor, because if you took away my guitar and my musical career, then I was nothing.

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.

This was the problem of being a narcissist: No one appreciated you as much as you knew you deserved." Louis Piper, Prince of Darkness, Lucifer, The Morning Star.

Forgive an old lady preaching to you, but I want you to believe what I do, that you have so much more to offer the world than you give yourself credit for. Yes, you have encountered a run of bad luck and made mistakes in the past, but so have we all, so please do not make the bigger mistake and allow yourself to be defined by these things. 'Pick yourself up and fight another day' is as good a motto as any in my experience.

Hard as nails Stacy Killian was one like one of those Tootsie Roll Pops - hard shell, soft, chewy center. Once a guy knew the center could be chewed, that's what they did. Chewed you up and spit you out. Or swallowed you, bite by bite. Goodbye respect. Goodbye self-esteem.

Was auch immer geschieht: Nie dürft Ihr so tief sinken, von dem Kakao, durch den man Euch zieht, auch noch zu trinken!

To fly too high and fall, to go too deep and get stuck, these are alike symptoms of an overvaluation of the ego that ends in disaster, death, or madness.

I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.

I have always been taught to be proud of being Latina, proud of being Mexican, and I was. I was probably more proud of being a "label" than of being a human being, that's the way most of us were taught.

You'll never make me ashamed of who I am or what I look like.

As long as Cloudtail loved me, I was no longer Lostface, but Brightheart.

She didn't want to be remembered as the kit who was jumped on by a dead squirrel.

You didn't want me to feel different, so you let me feel like a failure. I've always thought I was just a ... a terrible leopard. I can't jump, can't hunt, not like the others. I've been struggling to keep up my whole life. Different would have been better.

Or am I just a useless elder?