Quotes About Self-worth

People said, That's great for your career, but what have you done? I kept feeling I had to defend myself.

People kept saying, 'You've made it!' and I was like, 'What have I been doing all this time?' I've always felt successful.

I don't like the idea of competition - maybe because I kept losing them when I was a kid. Maybe it's better to be the one who loses?

'Fabulosity' is to get up when you've been kicked down, and it's not to go after who kicked you down.

I never want my kids to feel like I'm just some housewife who was just kicking it with my husband, because that's not the kind of woman that I am.

That happened to me, but I'm so much more than that girl that was kidnapped.

I kinda liked ol' Shakespeare and them guys, you know. I went back and got my master's just in case. I thought, if I ever needed it, I'd have the sheepskin to show people no matter how dumb I looked, actually I was about half intelligent. I got the degree to let 'em know I wasn't as dumb as I acted.

I'm one of those people who, even if I'm invited somewhere, I still kinda feel like I'm not supposed to be there.

I experienced bullying as early as the first day of kindergarten and there were times where I wish could escape out of my body.

Being able to love who I was, while also understanding that I deserved to be treated with kindness, helped me create a more positive and happy environment for myself.

I'd rather be called King than other things I've been called.

I'm not going to kiss any rings from anybody.

Am I foolish and insignificant or am I great? I gave all the individuals in the world cause to kneel down in front of me.

Why must we be eternally on our knees before the Kants and Hugos?

I knew a lot of girls who just wanted to be famous, and if that's your goal, that's awesome; that just wasn't enough for me.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

I don't want to be known as the Hilton heiress, because I didn't do anything for that.

If you haven't heard my story, my mom is full Korean, and my dad is Caucasian. Kids in kindergarten would make fun of me for being Asian, and when you're that age, you don't know really how to process that; the way you take that is, 'Who I am isn't good enough.'

A lot of people like to live on laurels that happened 20 or 30 years ago, but it's nice to get awards. It's nice to be labeled and things like that, but I'm not sure everybody qualifies.

Don't identify yourself with labels and brands and have to buy every cute thing you see. Invest in the things that will grow in equity.

I have grown up believing that when an individual excels at what he does, it makes him desirable. I am a living example that lack of conventional good looks shouldn't hinder you from being awesome.

You're going to have to speak up for yourself - and I learned that after always being, for lack of a better word, crapped on.

I think, a lot of times, where people see they're insufficient or lacking in certain areas, they feel they're being judged even when they're not. And they condemn themselves more than anyone else does.

In a moment of imagined separation, we become self-conscious and self-absorbed, and we assume we are less worthy than every other person we encounter. We want to hide out and yet be noticed. When this happens to nations of people, wars start.