Quotes About Self-worth

I've been compared to so many people - Streisand, Celine - it doesn't bother me. Why worry about being compared to the best?

I was so depressed for so many years over trying to become a working comedian that my sense of self-worth would plummet.

For so many years of my career, I was The Big Show. So in the back of my mind - whether it was 'fat' or aesthetically not pleasing or whatever crap people want to sling around - I enjoyed being The Big Show. I enjoyed being 450 pounds.

I don't understand why people spend so much time thinking about me if they don't like what I do. I couldn't care less about things I don't like.

It's great to get an 'F', but you also want to give the sense that there's something outside achievement. I've seen a lot of so-called high-achievers who don't feel they've achieved much.

I've made mistakes. Like, bringing people to your level who don't deserve to be there. They're trying to bite off your so-called fame, make a name off of you. I think I did a lot of that - allowed people to be relevant in my life who really aren't relevant to me at all.

think big about who you are and what you offer the world.

How come someone always saves the people who try to kill themselves and then makes them tell everyone how sorry they are for ruining their evening? I keep feeling like everyone wants me to apologize for something. but I'm not going to. I don't have anything to apologize for. They're the ones who screwed everything up. Not me. I didn't ask to be saved.

Anyone can be crazy. That's usually just because there's something screwed up in your wiring, you know? But suicide is a whole different thing. I mean, how much do you have to hate yourself to want to just wipe yourself out?

I'm tired of people thinking they're doing me favours.

I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others, as what I am in my own.

I do not think we can ever be despised as much as we deserve.

I don't want a man to validate me or take care of me. If I have a man in my life, I want him to enhance me.

I don't give a damn about reviews. What I like to read are royalty checks.

Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believe they should be. They become very self-abusive, and they use other people to abuse themselves as well.

In your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself. And the limit of your self-abuse is exactly the limit that you will tolerate from someone else. If someone abuses you a little more than you abuse yourself, you will probably walk away from that person. But if someone abuses you a little less than you abuse yourself, you will probably stay in the relationship and tolerate it endlessly.

It doesn't matter how much you love someone, you are never going to be what that person wants you to be.

If someone is not treating you with love and respect, it is a gift if they walk away from you.

The fear of being rejected becomes the fear of not being good enough. Eventually we become someone that we are not. We become a copy of Mamma's beliefs, Daddy's beliefs, society's beliefs, and religion's beliefs.

You are no longer responsible for anyone's opinion. You have no need to control anyone, and no one controls you either... You don't need to be right and you don't need to make anyone else wrong...you are no longer afraid of being rejected, and you don't have the need to be accepted...you can walk into the world with your heart completely open, and not be afraid to be hurt.

We have learned to live by other people's points of view because of the fear of not being accepted and of not being good enough for someone else.

If others feel they have to change you, that means they really don't love you just the way you are. So why be with someone if you're not the way he or she wants you to be?

Don't take anything personally because by taking things personally you set yourself up to suffer for nothing.

Whatever people think of you is really about the image they have of you, and that image isn't you.