Quotes About Self-worth

Who cares if I'm beautiful?" Silver Stripe stuck her nose in the air. "Beauty doesn't help with hunting, and I'm going to be the best hunter in WindClan.

I feel grown-up. I am no longer in the category with the children, I am one of the adults! And I love it! They have accepted me as an individual, as a personality, as an entity. I belong! I am important! I am somebody!

I want so much to be someone important, or even just asked out by a boy every once in a while. Maybe the new me will be different.

But almost no one speaks of building up girls - these delicate soufflé-nibbling creatures who ought to be able to survive on air and compliments. Instead, a great focus is placed on building up their brothers, stoking them with dangerous delusions about how much food they need. In the current food environment, the overfeeding of boys is no more helpful than the underfeeding of girls.

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.

Ah, think not meanly of yourselves, and sink into no common mass of being, as if your individuality were ever destructible or not all significant. You are bounded and confined by the impassable limits of that mystery we call "ourselves."

I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.

I grew up in a home environment where I wasn't getting esteem for anything I did.

But you don't have to hate it. In fact, it can be an absolute blast. The moment you don't give a damn what they say about you because you realize they're lying is the moment you have the upper hand.

C?ci, cum e cu putin?? s? m? iubeasc? v?zând trupÅŸorul acesta m?runt, chipul de pas?re, obrazul plin de pistrui, gura lipsit? de farmec, nasul mare, p?rul sp?l?cit, toat? f?ptura mea, care nu-i bun? decât pentru ca toat? lumea s?-i dea un picior? Cine e Nela? Nimeni. Nela e ceva doar pentru orb.

Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.

Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse

Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.

the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. if all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses, nor fine furniture.

it is as truly folly for the poor to ape the rich, as for the frog to swell in order to equal the ox.

No matter how useful we may be, sometimes it takes us a while to recognize our own value.

Wil je echt gelukkig zijn? Dan kun je beginnen met te waarderen wie je bent en wat je hebt. Wil je je echt ellendig voelen? Dan kun je beginnen met ontevreden zijn. Zoals Lao-tse schreef: 'Een boom zo dik dat je hem net kunt omspannen begint met een klein zaadje; een reis van duizend kilometer begint met één stap.

Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is in the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.

I settled on a game called I am a contribution. Unlike success and failure, contribution has no other side. It is not arrived at by comparison.

Office is something that builds up a man only if he is somebody in his own right.

We have learned by now that our beauty does not count as a possession. The only thing we truly own is our legend.