Quotes About Self-worth

Shaming is one way to intimidate and break the spirit.

Brainwashed to believe that they can only be secure if they have more than the next person, they accumulate and still feel insecure because there is always someone who has accumulated more.

In order to makes these changes she had to make use of another vital aspect of self-esteem, "self-assertiveness," defined by Branden as "the willingness to stand up for myself, to be who I am openly, to treat myself with respect in all human encounters.

J'ai perdu assez de temps à me justifier, à vouloir convaincre, à tenter d'expliquer qui je suis et ce que je fais et pourquoi je le fais. Maintenant il faut agir. Et je me fous de ce qu'en pensent les autres.

I unfortunately see no justification for setting other people's views of what is good for them above their own ideas of what is good for themselves.

You don't have the power to upset me. You don't matter enough to upset me.

NhÆ°ng ??i vá»›i ng??i lá»›n thì b? tuy?t ??i không th?y l?i bi?n há»™ nào cho vi?c Ä'ánh giá má»™t Ä'i?u t?t ??i vá»›i ng??i khác cao hÆ¡n là ng??i Ä'ó tá»± Ä'ánh giá Ä'i?u gì t?t cho mình

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

The only cure [for envy] in the case of ordinary men and women is happiness, and the difficulty is that envy is itself a terrible obstacle to happiness

One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about.

Como dice Russell, «las personas que son desdichadas, como las que duermen mal, siempre se enorgullecen de ello». Este es el primer obstáculo a vencer si uno pretende intentar ser feliz, dejar de intentar a toda costa ser «interesante».

The modern world unlearned us how to enjoy leisure time, making us think we need to be productive in order to be worthy.

Without Christ, every woman has intense insecurities. Unless we find our identity in Him, we Christian women can be just as prone to insecurities about our appearance as unbelievers. To Christ, the most beautiful person on earth is the one making preparation to meet the Groom.

We need to recognize that lack of confidence does not equal humility. In fact, genuinely humble people have enormous confidence because it rests in a great God.

The trick to dealing with criticism is letting it do it's good work but forbidding it to demoralize and destroy or to embitter.

Pride lives on the defensive against anyone and anything that tries to subtract from its self-sustained worth. Confidence, on the other hand, is driven by the certainty of God-given identity and the conviction that nothing can take that identity away.

No matter who you are or what kind of baggage you carry with you, no matter what you look like or feel like, no matter what you do or don't do, God loves you just as you are right now. You don't have to get your act together, lose ten pounds, run a marathon, write a best-selling book, or raise perfect children. You are an extraordinary woman in His sight right now.

Make no mistake: Satan's specialty is psychological warfare. If he can turn us on God ("It's not fair!"), turn us on others ("It's their fault!"), or turn us on ourselves ("I'm so stupid!"), we won't turn on him. If we keep fighting within ourselves and losing our own inner battles, we'll never have the strength to stand up and fight our true enemy.

Beloved, stop looking at others as more spiritual than you and just start believing God!

Let Him tell you you're worth wanting, loving, even liking, pursuing, fighting for, and, yes, beloved, keeping.

nobody gets the right to keep you in a pit...

So please forgive my self-loathing. Help me to praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. I know that full well (Ps. 139:14).

Forgive me for my unbelief [in myself]. If I realized how valuable I am, my insatiable need for affirmation would be quieted. Forgive me for being such a perfectionist that I resist doing something good out of fear that it won't be great.

Stop looking at others as if they are so much more spiritual than you and just start believing God!