Quotes About Self-worth

Beautiful actors are learning what beautiful actresses like Charlize Theron discovered a while ago - that they get taken more seriously when they trash the same beauty that got them taken seriously to begin with.

I'm enough of a southeast Texas boy - there's enough white trash in my blood that when somebody gives me money to make a record, I feel like I have to please them instead of myself.

For a long time, it was all about chart position. 'If my record doesn't come in at No. 1, I'm a failure.' I cared too much about what people thought of me, and that was symptomatic of the trauma from my childhood.

Yes, I hate it when people call me a 'national treasure'. It takes away your bite and makes you feel like a harmless old golden Labrador.

The - I don't want to say older, but the more experienced I get, I treasure and I honor what I've done much more.

We teach people how to treat us.

Never expect people to treat you any better than you treat yourself.

Don't let Labour's stereotypes and low expectations hold you back, and never let them treat you like a black sheep who will always follow them.

Because I'm a good girl, I tend to fall for the bad boy persona, and it ends up biting me in the butt. They end up not knowing how to treat me, and I end up completely devastated.

My advice to women in general: Even if you're doing a nine-to-five job, treat yourself like a boss. Not arrogant, but be sure of what you want - and don't allow people to run anything for you without your knowledge.

Your self-worth has nothing to do with your craft or calling, and everything to do with how you treat yourself.

I had a husband who, I'm convinced, was an undiagnosed manic depressive. He didn't treat me as if I had a brain - I was just this beautiful little doll he could show off.

I am telling you, if you ever wanted an ego boost, leave your job and then, six months later, come back for a day. People will treat you like you're a princess.

I can't help feeling that I am not a very important person, and being treated like one gives me strange feelings.

I am a queen, and I demand to be treated like a queen.

For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.

I had this belief that I couldn't just accept to be treated as an object. It was a problem of dignity.

I'd always been treated like an object, not like a human.

My father's card-playing buddies treated me as a plain, ordinary, commonplace kid destined for mediocrity - or less. I suppose they expected that I would spend my life as a clerk of some sort.

I didn't write my book, 'I Don't Care About Your Band,' in order to give women a brand-new set of dating rules they need to feel terrible about not abiding. I wrote my book to make the women who read it feel good about themselves, and a little more entitled to be treated well by the guys they go out with.

Growing up, I didn't get the talk of 'Make sure boys take you on a date and treat you right.' So I was the girl who wasn't dating and would just text. I dated these guys who didn't have jobs, and I would always be paying. At one point, I remember looking in the mirror and thinking, 'You're too pretty and cool to be treated like this.'

I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.

I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.

But I married a guy who treated me very badly, but I was happy. I was miserable, so I was happy.