Quotes About Self-worth

Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head. ~Garrison Keillor

But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph.

I'm constantly trying to make myself better, to learn more. I didn't finish college, so I feel like I'm always having to prove myself. I don't want to feel like the smallest person in the room.

And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it.

I've never concerned myself with the labels people want to put on you. What matters to me is my own estimation.

I realize everybody wants what they don't have. But at the end of the day, what you have inside is much more beautiful than what's on the outside!

Truly powerful people don't explain why they want respect. They simply don't engage someone who doesn't give it to them.

I will not take what you need to give me. I will take what you want to give me.

When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. It makes you more inward and needy. Gross.

Being the hot girl... you wouldn't want that. It's overrated. Being sexy is actually really boring to me. I'd rather be... I'd rather be interesting.

I wanted everything. What could you not want when you are brown and Indian-looking in a society in which the white aesthetic is praised as acceptable?

If believing in yourself and going after what you want in life and realising your worth is ruthless and selfish, then I'm definitely ruthless and selfish.

Never believe anyone who tells you that you don't deserve what you want.

When you live for others' opinions, you are dead. I don't want to live thinking about how I'll be remembered.

I've never felt like I needed to change. I've always thought, 'If you want somebody different, pick somebody else.'

Money lets you enjoy the finer things of life, but it doesn't change who you are. It magnifies and brings into fruition the things that you want to hide most. It is a mask for insecurities as well.

If someone doesn't want me, I'm not going to hang around and win them over.

When people say 'You're so beautiful' it makes me want to kill myself! As an actress you want to be seen for what you do, for the characters you can play, otherwise I'd be a model

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

I wanna be somebody. I mean, I am somebody. I just wanna be a rich somebody.

It's not easy to find your own way when you believe that you need love, approval, appreciation, or anything from your family. It's particularly hard when you want them to see things your way.

I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, "Do you know how fabulous you are?"

Stars are almost always people that want to make up for their own weaknesses by being loved by the public and I'm no exception to that.

I deserve all the love you can spare me. And I want a lot more than I deserve.