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Quotes About Self-worth

I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.
~ Halle Berry
Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.
~ Jane Austen
She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.
~ Jane Austen
When a woman veils her body in modest clothing, she is not hiding herself from men. On the contrary, she is revealing her dignity to them.
~ Jason Evert
This made me reflect, how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavor to do himself honor among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.
~ Jonathan Swift
I believe that a man should be... as big as he feels it in him to be!
~ Ken Kesey
The sexual conquest is huge with men in terms of affirming themselves and their feelings of masculinity. That's a misguided kind of affirmation. That is not helpful, but that stuff happens.
~ Donald Miller
The man who insists he as good as anybody, believes he is better.
~ E. W. Howe
A man's worth is what he is divided by what he thinks he is.
~ Eric Hoffer
The most likely cause of a man's depression is his failure to be the man he thinks he should be
~ Frank Pittman
The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.
~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles.
~ Louisa May Alcott
A man who permits his honor to be taken, permits his life to be taken.
~ Pietro Aretino
A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don't look to a man to get pride in myself. It's not about having a black president, it's about having a good president, and I think that's the most important thing.
~ Allen West
You're not a man, you're a mushroom!
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I'm a good person and I don't think I'll be left on my own. I don't know when I'll meet a man - I think I'm rushing it. But I am tired of working and not having someone.
~ Beyonce Knowles
What I have yet to see is a real woman choose a younger man because he spent six hours a day at the gym trying to sculpt his abs.
~ Candace Bushnell
It used to be said that by a certain age a man had the face that he deserved. Nowadays, he has the face he can afford.
~ Martin Amis
In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
This toxic striving for perfection is a female thing. How many men obsess about being perfect? For men, generally, good enough is good enough.
~ Jane Fonda
My identity depended on men for so long. You can be successful and still have the feeling that if you're not with a man you don't exist.
~ Jane Fonda
There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of other men.
~ John Tillotson
I am a pretty, useless ornament who always believed she'd have a man to take care of her.
~ Virginia C. Andrews