Quotes About Self-worth

Shame is such an intense emotion. It just can drive you.

One of my intentions with 'Rookie' is for the girls reading it to know that they are already cool enough and smart enough and pretty enough.

I can't imagine it if beauty was the only currency I used as an actress. It just doesn't interest me.

I wasn't ever interested in marrying someone else's career or bank account.

I know that when I attached my sense of identity a little too closely to my work that I might be distracting myself from feelings of unworthiness. It wasn't the number of hours I worked or how bloodshot my eyes were that defined the difference. It was something internal.

Feeling successful is internal, not external.

My deepest challenge has been an internal one. It's allowing success to take over by focusing on how many Twitter followers I have or what people are saying about me online, or just feeling like no matter how much success I get, it's not enough.

As women, I think we're used to looking around to see what people think about this, who's approving of us, who's criticizing us, and whether we have to internalize their thoughts on us.

When people tell you that you're less-than and that you don't matter and that you're inferior, you internalize some of that.

If you're going for an interview, you will dress smartly and look the part, that is absolutely fine, but it's just the level to which this becomes the ultimate focus of everything, where you have people who won't go to school unless they've put their make-up on, or won't leave the house unless they've spent two hours getting ready.

They must have begun in life knowing they were going to amount to something.

I had a horrible suspicion that I'd wind up in the same heartbreak hotel as I did with men. 'No you won't,' he reasoned. 'You be the man and that way you get to be the shit.

Don't spend any time at all," she said, "with people who don't love you. If you find yourself being attracted across a crowded room, leave.

You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.

Be a girl nobody dare to touch. Just like the roses. Its a beauty everybody treasure but no one dares too get close unless those with determination and sincerity.

Dieting may cause stress or make the dieter more vulnerable to its effects. Independent of body weight itself, dieting is correlated with feelings of failure, lowered self-esteem, and social anxiety.

Boundaries are also invaded when someone makes comments about your weight or how you should look.

The failure of dieting is that it promotes weight stigma by not recognizing that people come in all sizes and shapes and that each individual is worthy just as they are.

Ironically a "good" or "bad" scale number can both trigger overeating—whether it's a congratulatory eating party or a consolation party.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

How can we build trust among our own people? How can we make them confident of themselves and their countrymen so that they will not sell their souls for a few silver dollars? -The Cripple

What feminism means for me is simply that women, like men, are complete human beings with limitless possibilities.

They go in a vase. On the nighstand by your bed. Or on the kitchen table. Or on the coffee table in the living room. They go where you can see them most often, and, seeing them, remember that you deserve flowers.

You deserve someone who will honor you first and last. And if you choose a man who dishonors you, then you are not the woman I believe you to be.