Quotes About Self-worth

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.

Why suffer in front of so many people?

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in." His voice dropped to a whisper. "Let it come in. We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become too soft. But a wise man named Levine said it right. He said, 'Love is the only rational act.' " He repeated it carefully, pausing for effect. " 'Love is the only rational act.

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.

The culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. And you have to be strong enough

So," she said, moving away, "now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.

And over time our marriage collapsed. She grew tired of my misery and I can't say I blame her. When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those who love you.

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

she felt she was a small plant in a small patch of soil held between the rocks of a dry and windy place, and she was not wanted by the world, and here she was at least known, and she was tolerated, and that was a blessing.

The maid said no, for she had a sense of the fragility of things, and she felt she was a small plant in a small patch of soil held between the rocks of a dry and windy place, and she was not wanted by the world, and here she was at least known, and she was tolerated, and that was a blessing.

At the very bottom of things, thought Sandor, there is always this: the addict's belief that they are unlovable.

Because he knew how to invent machines that sometimes worked, even though everyone else laughed at them, Jody had begun to feel that he was a great deal cleverer than the Fourths and even than the other Thirds, old and married though they were. But now he suddenly saw, in a plunge into depression, that he knew nothing . After all, machines were easy to understand. But people were a mystery!

Said to Mitch Album in Tuesday's with Morrie: 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!

A person is as strong as he thinks he is, and as valuable as he thinks he is.

It is the same way with dating. The time you are most prepared for dating is when you don't need anyone to complete you, fulfill you, or instill in you a sense of worth or purpose.

success is not a comparison of what we have done with what others have done.

Each time a girl opens a book and finds a womanless history, she learns she is worth less.

Sometimes a man has to be great enough to know how insignificant he is.

It isn't healthy to care for someone who can never love you back.

You must not be hurt by other people's ignorance.

Why miss out on what God has in store for you while you're trying to get in on his plan for somebody else? Your plans are the best—for YOU—and so is your personality. You're so worth it

Meanwhile, it's who you are inside that counts anyway. If you have God-confidence, you're going to look, act, and feel good about yourself because that's just how God made you. Concentrate on God and who He wants you to be.

I am not your subject or your servant, and if you want a cowering mouse for a wife, go find someone else who can turn silver to gold for you.

I wouldn't hold myself that cheap, to marry a man who'd love me less than everything else he had, even if what he had was a winter kingdom.