Quotes About Self-worth

never ask a man if he is from Sparta: If he were, he would have let you know such an important fact—and if he were not, you could hurt his feelings.

didn't care what my parents (and grandfather) thought of me.

dignity is worth nothing unless you earn it, unless you are willing to pay a price for it.

Stay robust to how others treat you.

they remained fragile to the emotional toll from the compliments they did not get

Pretty' doesn't mean 'good,' you know, Geneva. Real life isn't like fairy tales. 'Pretty' simply means that by accident you've got things arranged on your outside in an extra-pleasing manner. It doesn't tell a thing about your inside.

My life does not belong to others and I am not here on earth to live up to someone else's expectations.

Chances are, when you were young, you were told, in effect, Listen, kid, here is the news: life is not about you. Life is not about what you want. What you want is not important. Life is about doing what others expect of you. If you accepted this idea, later on you wondered what had happened to your fire. Where had your enthusiasm for living gone?

If someone I like does not return my feeling, it may be disappointing or even painful, but it is not a reflection on my personal worth.

I accept the reality of my problems, but I am not defined by them. My problems are not my essence. My fear, pain, confusion, or mistakes are not my core.

Men are judged, and are encouraged to judge themselves, by how well they can financially take care of others. Men are socialized to be "servants" fully as much as women; only the forms of culturally encouraged servitude are different. If a man cannot support a woman, he tends to lose stature in her eyes and in his own.

Genuine self-esteem is what we feel about ourselves when everything is not all right.

It is a mistake to look at someone who is self-assured and say, "It's easy for her to be self-assertive, she has good self-esteem." One of the ways we build self-esteem is by being self-assertive when it is not easy to do so. There are always times when self-assertiveness calls on our courage.

I can be loved by my family, my mate, and my friends, and yet not love myself. I can be admired by my associates and yet regard myself as worthless.

Of all the judgements we pass, none is as important as the one we pass on ourselves.

Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is as important as the one we pass on ourselves.

I choose to value myself, to treat myself with respect, to stand up for my right to exist.

Self-respect is the conviction of our own value. It is not the delusion that we are "perfect" or superior to everyone else. It is not comparative or competitive at all.

If I enjoy a fundamental sense of efficacy and worth, and experience myself as lovable, then I have a foundation for appreciating and loving others.

Love is not felt to be real when it is always tied to performance, tied to living up to Mother's or Father's expectations

When a client in therapy says, "I don't feel entitled to be happy or successful," the meaning is, "I don't feel worthy as a human being.

We do not serve a child's development by making self-repudiation the price of our love.

Our motive is not to prove our worth, but to live our possibilities

The tragedy of many people's lives is that they look for self-esteem in every direction except within, and so they fail in their search. In