Quotes About Self-worth

Never tie your happiness to the end of someone else's kite.

Though Mrs. Fontaine smiled, I couldn't help but wonder if she'd sized me up and found me lacking.

You can haul the girl out of the trash, but you can never haul the trash out of the girl.

Cinderella was made for more than sweeping the floor.

If he doesn't want to change now, he never will. And if he is capable of changing, waiting for tomorrow robs you of your dreams for today.

If you put the wrong foods in your body, you are contaminated and dirty and your stomach swells. Then the voice says, Why did you do that? Don't you know better? Ugly and wicked, you are disgusting to me.

Nothing was a more powerful compass of my mood or a better indication of my self-worth than the number on the scale.

It's better to be HATED for who you ARE then Loved for who you ARE NOT!

Even if you forget everything else I want you to always remember that you are a person of value, and you have a friend who loved you enough to give you his most valued possession.

And taking care of somebody else made me feel good. Like discovering you're more than you thought you were. More even than you hoped to be.

Why is it I'm always so quick to believe that people are thinking...believing the worst about me?

Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.

It is not possible to preserve one's identity by adjusting for any length of time to a frame of reference that is in itself destructive to it. It is very hard indeed for a human being to sustain such an 'inner' split - conforming outwardly to one reality, while trying to maintain inwardly the value it denies.

Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.

Emotional abuse is like brainwashing in that it systematically wears away at the victim's self-confidence, sense of self-worth, trust in his or her perceptions, and self-concept. (..) Eventually, the recipient loses all sense of self and all remnants of personal value.

Children who feel unloved and unprotected are like a half-filled cup. They become incapable of 'filling up' because they have come to believe they are unworthy of love. They try to please others, give to others, and care for others in a desperate hope that they may make themselves worthy.

When we feel guilt, we feel badly about something we did or neglected to do. When we feel shame, we feel badly about who we are. Put another way: guilty people fear punishment, shamed people fear abandonment. When we feel guilty we need to learn it's okay to make mistakes. When we feel shame we need to learn it's okay to be who we are.

Who're you supposed to be, Creflo Dollar's Mini-Me?

What scares you?" "That I won't be taken seriously because I can't write my name in the snow.

Although the law may never reflect it, we are not less in any way, and I refuse to believe that I am simply because others do.

She wanted to be valued and loved, two things sorely missing from her life, and she didn't think it ludicrous or wrong for a woman her age to have such dreams.

I'd given him my virginity because he told me I was special, but apparently I was simply a new link in a very long chain." "So what did you do?" ... "Put red pepper sauce in his rubbers.

Everyone Doesn't Deserve A Front Seat In Your Life, Former "Editor In Chief, Susan Taylor Essence Magazine

In my old age I've come to find that if you respect other people, you feel better about yourself.