Quotes About Self-worth

All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.

All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.

Many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they're not — because the thing they were good at at school wasn't valued, or was actually stigmatized.

Too many feel that what they're good at isn't valued by schools. Too many think they're not good at anything.

But it is difficult to feel accomplished when you're not accomplishing something that matters to you. Doing something 'for your own good' is rarely for your own good if it causes you to be less than who you really are. The decision to play it safe, to take the path of least resistance, can seem irresistible, particularly if you have your own doubts and fears about the alternatives.

It indicates very poor breeding," Miss Simpkins informed me primly. "We are not dogs or horses," I insisted hotly. "None of us gets to choose how we're born, it's what we make of ourselves afterward.

I am learning to forgive my inner geek, and even value him as a free man.

You don't deserve it, he said aloud. Don't ever begin to think that you do.

Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.

I thought that if I gave everything I had inside to the people I loved, I would perhaps be able to prove I wasn't a bad person. The truth was that I really wasn't a bad person. And I didn't need to dedicate my life to defining the kind of person that I was.

It's not your job to like me - it's mine

Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile.

You can't expect men to appreciate you. Sometimes they will, sometimes they won't. Even women won't always appreciate what you do, so why should the men understand you any better? The only person who will always know what you did, and why you did it, is yourself. If you try to do what's right, that should be enough. Remind yourself of that when it seems as if it isn't.

Be careful not to mistake insecurity and inadequacy for humility! Humility has nothing to do with the insecure and inadequate! Just like arrogance has nothing to do with greatness!

The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.

The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore.

Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around and talk about you. What's important to me is not others' opinions of me, but what's important to me is my opinion of myself.

Don't judge yourself by what others did to you.

The very fact that we need to struggle for approval proves that we do not approve of ourselves. Having to convince ourselves of something means we do not really believe it. That is why we contort ourselves grotesquely, lose sight of who we really are, and tangle ourselves pathetically in a complicated falsification of our lives.

Le noyau de toute jalousie est un manque d'amour. (p. 225)

At every turn, girls - even the most carefully raised and deeply loved - are surrounded by a popular culture that exhorts them to think of themselves as sexually disposable creatures.

I felt like I was stretching to convince the world that my work was interesting, yet no one cared.

They seem to relieve him of the felt need to offer chattering interpretations of himself to vindicate his worth. He can simply point: the building stands, the car now runs, the lights are on. Boasting is what a boy does, who has no real effect in the world. But craftsmanship must reckon with the infallible judgment of reality, where one's failures or shortcomings cannot be interpreted away.

Because, let's face it, checking "likes" is the new smoking.