Quotes About Self-worth

se te olvide, mi hijito, que mientras más importante te sientas en la vida, más pendejo serás…

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.

The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.

so try as you will you cannot make me feel embarrassment at what I find beautiful.

My fear is that these kids are always going to be evaluating their self-worth in terms of whether they hit the next rung society has placed in front of them at exactly the time that society has placed it. And that's dangerous, because you're going to slip and fall in your life.

For what is a man, what has he got. If not himself, then he has naught.

Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.

Estar resentido por el éxito de otro puede parecer mezquino, pero a la larga evita que abusen de uno.

Man is human only to the extent to which he tries to impose himself on another man in order to be recognized by him. As long as he has not been effectively recognized by the other, it is this other who remains the focus of his actions. His human worth and reality depend on this other and on his recognition by the other. It is in this other that the meaning of his life is condensed.

Do we really deserve top billing?

To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.

It's a mistake to think that we have to be lovely to be loved by human beings or by God.

You know, I think everybody longs to be loved, and longs to know that he or she is lovable. And, consequently, the greatest thing that we can do is to help somebody know that they're loved and capable of loving.

Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.

I don't think anyone can grow unless he's loved exactly as he is now, appreciated for what he is rather than what he will be.

I'm proud of you for the times you came in second, or third, or fourth, but what you did was the best you have ever done

The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile.

It's a mistake to think that we have to be lovely to be loved by human beings or by God

Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.

It's really easy to fall into the trap of believing that what we do is more important than what we are. Of course, it's the opposite that's true: What we are ultimately determines what we do!

You are a very special person. There is only one like you in the whole world. There's never been anyone exactly like you before, and there will never be again. Only you. And people can like you exactly as you are.

One of the universal fears of childhood is the fear of not having value in the eyes of the people whom we admire so much.

You know, I think everybody longs to be loved, and longs to know that he or she is lovable. And consequently, the greatest thing we can do is to help somebody know that they are loved and capable of loving.

I wonder if we might pledge ourselves to remember what life is really all about—not to be afraid that we're less flashy than the next, not to worry that our influence is not that of a tornado, but rather that of a grain of sand in an oyster! Do we have that kind of patience?