Quotes About Self-worth

If someone doesn't like what you bring to the table in a relationship, let them eat alone.

Just because she has high standards, doesn't mean she's high maintenance. Don't confuse the two.

I know my worth. Never again will I condemn myself to the prison of a bad relationship.

I want you to tell me that you feel the same way for me. And I'd like you to tell me those feelings are worth it. I'd like you to say I'm worth it.

It's only when a man doesn't feel that he's a man that he has to be a god.

It's a humiliation that you don't forget, and even early in life you learn the pain of rejection because your body isn't wanted.

Friends bring out the best in me, and what's what I cherish: they make me feel that I am worth knowing.

Ona stops laughing, barely. Do you think that's true, she asks, that it doesn't matter what you think? I blush. Maul my own head. She continues: How would you feel if in your entire lifetime it had never mattered what you thought?

?ovje?e, sjeti se da si ravan onome pred kim se ponizuješ, i ne ponizuj se! Hodaj uspravno, ne pla?i pred tu?im vratima, jer iza tih vrata za tebe nema nikoga, pljusni i pljuni, ali se ne ponizuj.

You are not your past.

When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love.

sometimes what you miss the most is the way a loved one made you feel about yourself.

To these people, unhappiness was a condition, an intolerable state of affairs. If pills could help, pills were taken. But pills were not going to change the fundamental problem in the construction. Wanting what you can´t have. Looking for self-worth in the mirror. Layering work on top of work and still wondering why you weren´t satisfied - before working some more.

Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.

The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves.

Take my condition. The things I am supposed to be embarrassed about now—not being able to walk, not being able to wipe my ass, waking up some mornings wanting to cry—there is nothing innately embarrassing or shaming about them. "It's the same for women not being thin enough, or men not being rich enough. It's just what our culture would have you believe. Don't believe it.

I made such a fool of myself," she lamented. "Love does not make you a fool." "He didn't love me back." "That does not make you a fool, either.

There's no such thing as a nobody. And there are no mistakes.

The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.

The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.

Wanting what you can't have. Looking for self-worth in the mirror. Layering work on top of work and still wondering why you weren't satisfied -- before working some more.

Mitch, if you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down at you anyhow. And if you're trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere.

I remembered what Morrie said during our visit: The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.

Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it. They're more unhappy than me—even in my current condition.