Quotes About Self-worth

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

I often try to tell kids to think about all the people who love you, don't cry over the one person who doesn't.

If you want to be seen, stand up. If you want to be heard, speak up. If you want to be appreciated, shut up.

Don't compare yourself with anyone in this world...if you do so, you are insulting yourself.

Christians who live out of who they really are cannot be crippled by the opinions of others.

If you don't live by the praise of men you won't die by their criticism.

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.

Doesn't matter how competent, intelligent, or accomplished you are. You've got it tucked away in there. And nobody can cope for any great period of time with the feeling of that nakedness. You know what shame does? It takes a particular violation or several violations from your past, something that really got to you, and convinces you the person you felt like in that violation is who you'll always be, for the rest of your life. Sad, huh?

The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by where they are judged to be on the ladders of worldly success. They feel worthwhile as individuals if the numbers beneath them in achievement, talent, beauty, or intellect are large enough.

You're imperfect, and you're wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.

There's no prerequisites to worthiness. You're born worthy, and I think that's a message a lot of women need to hear.

Because I now realize, after all this time, I have never truly felt worthy of all that I have been given.

Since I was , I've had that feeling of, 'Am I enough? Am I worthy? Am I supposed to be here?' And my culture and society is telling me that I'm actually not in a lot of ways - unless I have this amount of money, or I'm in this kind of car and I have this kind of job, or I'm famous, or whatever.

This constant need for dominance and strength, having walls up, this kind of silent broker cowboy who needs to have something that can be redeemed before he is actually worthy of love, there is a missing piece to that strength.

Not everyone will see your beauty, and not everyone will find you attractive or believe you are worthy of their clothing or publications.

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.

There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace. This peace makes you feel worthy of all of the richest blessings of the universe, and when you radiate this out into the world, it is returned to you without fail.

Even people who believe they deserve to be happy and have nice things often don't feel worthy once they have them.

The thing about me and school was that as much as I felt that I didn't belong, as long as I was on a stage or dancing, that's where I excelled the most, felt worthy.

I'm sort of of the belief that people kill themselves from the inside out. When they're unhappy with what they're doing, or not achieving things - when your focus is off-kilter. The thing that keeps me ticking is my values. And I maintain them, because they're worthy. I like to wake up and feel I've done no wrong. I like that feeling.

I've always believed that I had talent, even when I felt like a very inferior sort of person, which I spent a lot of time living my life feeling that I wasn't worthy.

I deeply believed that I wasn't worthy - that I couldn't be in the stories even I was creating. I don't want anyone else to feel like that.

I've gone up for loads of jobs in the past that I knew were going to be terrible, and I've done my best, and I still haven't got them. So I think I've been lucky in who's decided I'd be worthy of their time.

As a therapist, I've worked with many high-achieving people who don't feel worthy of their success. Whether it was a recent college graduate who had landed a high-paying job or a mature adult who had just received another promotion, all of these people suffer from impostor syndrome.