Quotes About Self-worth

My mother is a great artist, but she always treated her paintings like minor postcards. Had she pursued it, she would have been a great artist. Instead, she looked down on her art.

I've been in some situations where people have treated me like a fascinating toy. You know, it's just like an interesting kind of fun thing to have a play with. It's very weird for me. I feel like a tiny baby.

My friends hated going out with me because people think they can grab you and talk to you how they want. At the end of the day, you're still a human being, and I don't like being treated that way - I prefer to live a quiet life.

I worked my way through the education system and was treated as though I had value.

That was something that I learned: It's actually okay if the way that I do my best is when I'm treated well.

If someone is not treating you in a way that you like, remember that there are so many nice people out there. The problem is that when you love someone, you make excuses for that kind of behavior.

If a boy messes up, you walk away. If a boy isn't treating you right, you walk away. It sounds simpler than it is, but you can't allow yourself to be disrespected. You have to be a strong girl.

I feel like every woman is a queen, and we should be treated as such, and we should, you know, sort of request that sort of treatment from others.

Said I was beautiful, did he? He's being paid for treatment, not flattery.

I went through a patch when I felt I didn't deserve a nice car. I like to use them as treats, not have one for the sake of having one because I can afford one. I like to reward myself.

I don't want to be the one dancing behind the trees and getting my stomach pinched.

I will not accept a role just because a big hero stars in it. I am not here to merely dance, run around trees, and be a glam doll.

The truth of the matter is, all of those guys on Star Trek: The Next Generation actually want to be me. These impersonations they do are just some way of trying to feel what it must be like to be me. And I understand that! Because it feels really good to be Patrick Stewart!

I have a very healthy dose of self-loathing. But I think we all have a past of being whatever our story was, of feeling not good enough. It can propel you to work harder and do more, but it can also be a tremendous trap, and you can't see beyond it.

I felt inferior. I had this tremendous need to perform. I wanted to be acceptable to my peers. I thought if I could just be a big star, I'd feel like somebody, too.

There's tremendous shame with being bullied. I think there's a level at which you think that there's a reason that you're being singled out, that you're being chosen.

When you don't have a nine-to-five job, and you're with somebody who gets a tremendous amount of attention, it's not that you resent it - it's that you have all that extra time to think about it.

I am not bound to spend my precious days on Earth trying to keep up with the Joneses - because the Joneses are really just a bunch of folks in conference rooms changing 'trends' rapidly to create fake monthly emergencies for us.

I'd rather be shot than be seen falling out of some trendy club.

You always supposed to have that i'm number 1 mentality, don't let anyone make you feel like you is number 2 when they not even worth being number 1 !!!

Diets are essentially training courses in how to feel fat and feel like a failure.

Being single is definitely better than being with the wrong person

If people aren't able to see your magnificence that's their loss, not yours.

Education is a system designed to make you feel inferior, yet they encourage you to accept it in order to be superior