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Quotes About Self-worth

There are so many things to be tortured about, sweet pea. So many torturous things in this life. Don't let the man who doesn't love you be one of them.
~ Cheryl Strayed
Basically, man, I just love myself.
~ Edward Furlong
I was about six years old, still Daddy's little girl, even though Daddy couldn't care less about me. How could I expect any man every would?
~ Ellen Hopkins
We are all equal in the sense that no man must mean - must be - the means for the purposes of another man; but each individual is an end in itself.
~ Erich Fromm
Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.
~ George Bernard Shaw
And any man who must say 'I am king' is no true king at all.
~ George R. R. Martin
Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man.
~ Germaine Greer
All men matter. You matter. I matter. It's the hardest thing in theology to believe.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Take pride away from a man and you might as well run a knife through his heart.
~ Julie Garwood, Mercy
Don't become me. Don't let her down like I did. You only deserve what you make yourself worthy of. Do what I couldn't. Be a man.
~ Abbi Glines
I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The unenvied man is not enviable.
~ Aeschylus
Check out not to become a man or woman of achievement, but instead seek to become a particular person of price.
~ Albert Einstein
A man can bear a world's contempt when he has that within which says he's worthy. When he contemns himself, there burns the hell.
~ Alexander Smith
I'm more of a "let the man come to me" girl.
~ Alexandra Breckenridge
What I've loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You've broken it with a word, so I must die.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Democratic institutions generally give men a lofty notion of their country and themselves.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Riches I need not, nor man's empty praise.
~ Alfred Korzybski
In a man's world, I am a woman by birth and after 19 times around I have found - they will stop at nothing once they know what you are worth.
~ Ani DiFranco
He's worth fighting for, but I won't change who I am for any man. No more than he should alter himself to suit me.
~ Ann Aguirre
Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
I'm not the most loathsome man in the world. I've dropped to number nine.
~ Ben Affleck
I've never been put down by a man, unless I deserved it, and have never felt inferior.
~ Beryl Bainbridge
A woman's heart is not bought by the currency of a man's emotion for her. A woman's heart is won over by her own feelings for herself when he just happens to be around.
~ Brigid Pasulka