Quotes About Self-worth

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

A man's vanity tells him what is honour; a man's conscience what is justice.

No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room full of people, I would say to myself, "You're the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the cleverest nation. ... Why should you be frightened?"

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.

All wise people say the same thing; that you are deserving of love, and that it's all here now, everything you need. When you pray, you are not starting the conversation from scratch, just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in progress.

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are.

So many of us define ourselves by what we have, what we wear, what kind of house we live in, and what kind of car we drive ... if you think of yourself as the woman in the Cartier watch and the Hermes scarf, a house fire will destroy not only your possessions but your self.

We are all of us richer than we think we are.

What causes us to like new acquaintances is not so much weariness of our old ones, or the pleasure of change, as disgust at not being sufficiently admired by those who know us too well, and the hope of being admired more by those who do not know so much about us.

It doesn't matter what anybody thinks of what I do. The clock doesn't lie.

I'm not going to let my life revolve around losing weight. I have other things to do.

People don't pay much attention to you when you are second best. I wanted to see what it felt like to be number one.

It is comparison that makes men happy or miserable.

Don't be so humble. You're not that great.

I often marvel how it is that though each man loves himself beyond all else, he should yet value his own opinion of himself less than that of others.

A man is a kind of inverted thermometer, the bulb uppermost, and the column of self-valuation is all the time going up and down.

Every man in the world is better than someolne else and not as good as someone else.

We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out; only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.

Today, the biggest challenge we must meet is the one we present to ourselves. To not become a nation that places entitlement ahead of accomplishment. To not become a country that places comfortable lies ahead of difficult truths. To not become a people that thinks so little of ourselves that we demand no sacrifice from each other.

As long as you try your best, that is all that matters. You don't have to be the fastest runner or top of the class.

I am constantly struggling to show people that there is more to me than my appearance. You do have to try and overcome those hurdles. Female actresses need to be given the chance to be more than how they look.

You just need to be accepted for who you are and be proud of who you are and that is what I'm trying to do.

What I'm trying to say to girls is don't let these guys be in your head.