Quotes About Self-worth

If you spend too much time watching and fantasizing others while they achieve their dreams you may well miss your own.

Believing in myself has always been hard. For a long time, I constantly compared myself to others, and it took away from the energy I could have been putting into my career.

Alas! There cometh the time when man will no longer give birth to any star. Alas! There cometh the time of the most despicable man, who can no longer despise himself.

Why should you feel honored for getting scraps of his time?

Nobody deserves to be treated like a princess 100% of the time... not even me.

If someone wants a piece of you, never let them pay. What you do not give to them time takes anyway.

Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that can't accept who you are.

An enlightened thinker does not waste his precious time thinking about what others think of what he thinks.

Most of the time, we keep looking outside and feeling sad about what others have. Those are mere excuses.

A belt does nothing but hold your gi together. A belt has assigned significance, a belt is someone else saying you're good, you don't need other people saying that you're good in order to be good.

When one does not believe oneself in any way good, there is very little for which to live - and one feels unworthy of even what little there is.

How could she expect ever to find a man who would want to marry her just because she was? It was absurd. And she would have to return the compliment, would she not? She could not expect any man to love her that deeply if she did not also understand that he simply was, and that his wasness or isness made him forever the love of her heart. The love of her life.

Why do you hate yourself so much? He laughed harshly. You ask me that? he said. You know what I am, Diana. You know that I have nothing of any goodness or worth to offer you. And you don't even know the worst about me. I think I know the best about you, though, she said. You have a strong sense of decency and honor. Otherwise you would not be protecting me more than I am protecting myself.

No fault is ever found within, Supaari thought, listening to them. None among us is dull or inept or shiftless. We are all powerful and triumphant, but for the ones above us.

I don't mean you should despise people for being weak, if it's a kind of weakness they can't help. But when they're weak on purpose, it's another thing. When they don't even try. When they let people hurt them and don't fight back. It's gross. It's letting down the whole human race.

I don't know who these people are, he said, or why you would care about their opinion. But there is nothing sick or worthless about you. You are a lovely spirit.

He was so proud that she had more going on north of her neck than her hairdo.

The fact that my house was Not Right metastasized into the notion that I myself was somehow Not Right, or that my survival in the world depended on my constant vigilance against various forms of Not-Rightness.

Height - ours and our boyfriends - is a running contest between Lecia and me. If I tell her good news about myself, she's liable to say 'I'm five-nine' and hang up.

Her mother's injunction on competing with other girls is a challenge, a gauntlet thrown down: You just have to be smarter than the ones who are prettier and prettier than the ones who are smarter

i only know how to exist when i'm wanted.

Just because I evolved, doesn't mean I am spineless. Just because I am malleable, doesn't mean I am undeserving

I want to watch the fat lady win I want her to stop apologizing for being fat I wish I could say: Hey, perfect angel cutie pie: You don't owe anyone shit. Stop apologizing for who you are. Go eat a fucking sandwich and throw your scale away Work out if you want to, lay on the couch if you want to No one else lives in your body You are enough, as you are, today

You are more than who you fuck