Quotes About Self-worth

Every win that I've been going through, it's been securing anyone's doubts or even my own doubts about whether I belong with these guys, playing these high-level tournaments.

Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.

When you behave well towards somebody regardless of what you're receiving, you feel better about yourself. So be decent to people.

I'm not a pretty boy who came to town and burst out of the gate, which is a good thing, because if I was, I probably wouldn't have been good enough then. I probably wouldn't have lasted. So I was very lucky not to be pretty.

Many people get into a relationship as a way to compensate for something they lack or hate within themselves. This is a one-way ticket to a toxic relationship because it makes your love conditional - you will love your partner as long as they help you feel better about yourself.

I think most people know when they're in a toxic relationship - it requires an enormous amount of effort to keep it going, and you don't get what you want from it.

I feel like I let people know I'm not a toy.

I'm not just a boy toy. I have feelings and dreams like anybody else.

After my first 'Sports Illustrated' cover, I felt terrible about myself for a solid month. People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. I'm not a toy; I'm a human. I'm not here to be used.

I never let track define me. That's something that's really important to me.

We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.

I wouldn't trade my life for anybody's.

I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.

I've never felt like I've exactly traded on my looks. When I was a teenager, I was an ultra late bloomer, and my mom would say it was a blessing because it means you never have to wonder if guys are only interested in you because you've got boobs.

You're always going to feel disrespected because you're getting traded. Evidently, you ain't doing something right or you ain't getting it done or they don't believe in you.

There's a guy out there who's going to be really happy that you didn't get back together with your crappy ex-boyfriend.

I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own.

Foreign places yield more to one who is himself worth meeting.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

I love you just the way you are but you don't see you like I do. You shouldn't try so hard to be perfect. Trust me, perfect should try to be you.

Why do you put your self esteem in the hands of complete strangers?

What other people think of me is none of my business. Sometimes, it hurts my feelings, but I have to just keep going.

I know now that it's really important to feel beautiful. There is a power to that.

Once we deeply trust that we ourselves are precious in God's eyes, we are able to recognize the preciousness of others and their unique places in God's heart.