Quotes About Self-worth

I have always come in a poor third with the people whose affection I most craved. Well, you know what? I'll be damned if I'll settle for that from you, too. I deserve better. Its taken me a while to realize it, but I do.

It seemed that all her life she'd been seeking someone's approval: Father's, Grandmother's... hell, all of society's. Well, she was through. She hadn't asked for anything this time—not a blessed thing—but even that wasn't good enough.

Consider what really makes up your self-worth—like your caring heart or your ability to stand tall in the face of adversity

Social media can be so damaging.

I'm not trying to live a social media life or a life to just be in a magazine.

With social media, people share mostly their best moments. Don't feel like you're not doing enough when you see a mom posting about making applesauce after you bought it. Ha ha! It's fine! Just for raising a little human being, you should be commended.

People are always telling you you're done. Someone's always telling you that, especially now in the day of social media.

Social media can help or hurt you. People are more into other people's lives than their own. Everyone sees everyone else's success online, and we allow it to magnify our own failure.

If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it.

I'm not interested in being commodified. I'm not into being sold. I'm not a slave.

When I was being sold into marriage, it was hard to see a future for myself.

It's important for artists to value themselves - whatever that means. Everyone's going to take that in a different way. If you don't value yourself, you will be bought and sold.

The difference in being a good soldier and actor is that in the Air Force, you see results, and our worth is defined by numbers. As an actor, your results are based on other people's opinions.

I think I am my sole competition and see only myself in my league.

Often, when cheating happens, we rush to place blame solely on one person - either the person who did the cheating, or more insidiously, if it happened to us, we blame ourselves for not being 'good enough' to keep them around. But putting it all on one person doesn't paint the entire picture.

You can't just measure yourself solely on winning that medal. It has to be on the everyday experience.

I had been wanting to peel back the layers of who I am for so long, but I felt like I needed to prove how solid my work is first.

I realised that rather than looking for someone else to be an 'other half' to make me whole, that I need to be whole myself. That's what solitude taught me - that I am enough.

Crohn's doesn't define who you are. You are a human being; you are special and a great addition to society. Crohn's is just a part of your life. Try to be positive and proactive - therein lies the solution.

You are not a problem that needs solving.

What happened to me in Somalia doesn't define me.

I love me some me.

The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.

Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter.