Quotes About Self-worth

Don't you think it's weird when someone has photographs of themselves all over the place? It's like they're trying to prove they exist.

Am I going to spend the rest of my life trying to get some kind of approval from him that he's never going to give?

Why do magazine do this to women? Miranda complains now, glaring at Vogue. It's all about creating insecurity. Trying to make women feel like they're not good enough. And when women don't feel like they're good enough guess what? What? I (Carrie) ask, picking up the grocery bad, Men win. That's how they keen us down she concludes

The one thing you have to remember about labels is that they only matter if you let them stick.

Maybe we should all decide we're going to meet the man of our dreams when we're thirty-seven. Then we'll stop squeezing into tight shirts and walking around half-naked and analysing every encounter as future husband material. We'll stop feeling the need to put on makeup to take out the trash just in case he's walking by. Maybe we should just assume that we'll meet our dream man at some future point, and stop driving ourselves crazy before then.

When I was nineteen and I didn't have a boyfriend, I never felt bad about it. Because I figured someday I would. My friends and I had plenty of fun alone. What ruins the fun is the fear that you'll be that way forever.

A Queen knows who she is.

Stranahan told her not to mistake arrogance for pride. A guy like Chaz can revive his ego with the palm of his hand.

BLANCHE: You see I still have that awful vanity about my looks even now that my looks are slipping!

We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don't matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else.

Oddly enough, it was Prudence he studied beneath his lashes, not MacKay. The words he spoke came straight from his heart. "No. Because she felt ashamed. Because she felt dirty. After the things he did to her, she could never feel worthy of someone as fine as you.

I dream that someone will love me as a person so wholly that it won't matter whether I have gray pubic hair or sagging breast.

La cosa importante non era ciò che la gente pensava di me; era ciò che io pensavo di me stesso. Se permettevo a me stesso di essere fermato dalle opinioni degli altri, sarei diventato ciò che essi desideravano che io diventassi.

Laugh all you want. I know my own worth and don't need to prove it to someone who doesn't know theirs.

There would be nothing I could do to you that would harm you more than what you're already doing to harm yourself...You are never going to amount to anything. You will always be the worthless muck people scrape from their shoes. You only get one life and you are wasting yours. That's a terrible shame. I doubt you will ever know what it is to be truly happy, to achieve anything of worth, to have genuine pride in yourself. You bring it all on yourself, and I could do no worse to you.

Only you can achieve self-worth for yourself. Any group offering it to you, or demanding it of you, comes bearing chains of slavery.

Appearance, after all, was a reflection of what a person thought of themselves and therefore, by extension, of others.

your own individual life is the value and its own end, and what you achieve is yours. "Only you can achieve self-worth for yourself. Any group offering it to you, or demanding it of you, comes bearing chains of slavery.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

Even our fears make us feel important, because we fear we might not be.

But what's worth more than gold? Practically everything. You, for example. Gold is heavy. Your weight in gold is not very much gold at all. Aren't you worth more than that?

Sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That's what sin is.

He'd always felt he had a right to exist as a wizard in the same way that you couldn't do proper maths without the number 0, which wasn't a number at all but, if it went away, would leave a lot of larger numbers looking bloody stupid.

Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage.