Quotes About Self-worth

We don't have to take other people's behaviors as reflections of our self-worth.

We can change what people see when they look at us by what we believe about ourselves.

Shut off the internal bashing.

I just want them to discover something they can do that makes them contented and feeling as if they are doing something worth doing.

I wanted to work hard. I wanted to prove myself somehow worthy of the good things I had known.

You are wonderfully and powerfully made. In other words: it is no accident you are good at certain things!

Going through this phase, though, did confirm in my mind that at least Shara wasn't marrying me for either my looks or money. I was both broke and bloated. She, bless her, still loved me all the same.

Self-doubt can be crushing, and sometimes it is hard to see outside the black bubble.

But above all, I feel a quiet pride that for the rest of my days I can look myself in the mirror and know that once upon a time I was good enough.

I wouldn't intentionally hurt anyone in this whole world. I wouldn't hurt them physically or emotionally, how then can people so consistently do it to me? Even my parents treat me like I'm stupid and inferior and ever short. I guess I'll never measure up to anyone's expectations. I surely don't measure up to what I'd like to be.

I guess I'll never measure up to anyone's expectations. I surely don't measure up to what I'd like to be.

They have accepted me as an individual, as a personality, as an entity. I belong! I am important! I am somebody!

Studies seem to show that those of us who believe we must achieve in order to merit love and respect—not just be ourselves—are vulnerable to emotional troughs when our opportunities to excel are restricted.

The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem.

Women will only be truly sexually liberated when we arrive at a place where we can see ourselves as having sexual value and agency irrespective of whether of not we are the objects of male desire.

An overwhelming majority of us come from dysfunctional families in which we were taught we were not okay, where we were shamed, verbally and/or physically abused, and emotionally neglected even as (we) were taught to believe that we were loved.

The feeling that I've done something wrong, that I really don't know what it is, that there's something terribly wrong with my very being, leads to a sense of utter hopelessness. This hopelessness is the deepest cut of the mystified state. It means there is no possibility for me as I am; there is no way I can matter or be worthy of anyone's love as long as I remain myself. I must find a way to be someone else--someone who is lovable. Someone who is not me.

How can any girl sustain the belief that she is loved, truly loved, when all around her she sees that femaleness is despised? Unable to change the fact of femaleness, she strives to make herself over, to become someone worthy of love.

Valuing ourselves rightly means we understand love to be the only foundation of being that will sustain us in both times of lack and times of plenty

without a core foundation of healthy self-esteem we can't practice self love.

When we practice forgiveness, we let go of shame. Embedded in our shame is always a sense of being unworthy. It separates. Compassion and forgiveness reconnect us.

First and foremost feminist movement urged females to no longer see ourselves and our bodies as the property of men.

Simply learning how we have acquired feelings of worthlessness rarely enables us to change things; it is usually one stage of the process.

It is silly, isn't it, that I would dream of someone else offering to me the acceptance and affirmation I was withholding from myself.