Quotes About Self-worth

I'm not as beautiful as a model.

Not everybody is some kind of media model.

Modeling wasn't the thing that was going to define me in any way; it was just a way to make a lot of money.

When I started modeling, they tried to pay black models less than they paid Caucasian models. I turned down those jobs because I knew what I was worth.

We understood, growing up - 'cause it was taught in our family home, my mom and dad - to respect women, for instance. To respect yourself. That you respect your name. Those are the kind of things we were taught.

I have what I call A-list moments, but believe me, I'm still on the D-list.

My momma told me a long time ago, 'not everybody has to like you.' And it's very true. I'm ok with that.

Don't judge me. I made a lot of money.

Dance Monkey' showed me that I'm good enough.

You know, either I'm too fat or I'm flavour of the month. I don't feel either, but maybe I'm both, who knows?

I was more or less a carnival attraction. I was a freak show.

I'd be a liar if I said I didn't care what people think, but I would rather have less people who like or approve of me for who I really am than a bunch more people who like or approve me for what I'm not.

I would like more people to think good things about me, but if they never do, they never do.

The more successful you become the more people want to put you down. I've always been very clear on where I stand with that and I'm happy with who I am when I go to sleep.

I believe in me more than anything in this world.

'You're beautiful' was the compliment I craved so much. I didn't care if people called me smart or innovative - it was the number-one compliment I gave out to other women hoping it was given back to me. I heard people saying it to my best friends. It was the one I wanted to hear more than anything else.

What's important to me is how the Lord looks at me, more than anything else.

I couldn't help feeling people thought I was a moron, and my self-imposed insecurity constantly bedeviled me.

I'm not the most beautiful one of my family.

You have to be happy with yourself first of all - that's the most important thing.

Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

You can't cry yourself to sleep every night because people from a distance hate you. So you gotta do with it what you can, and if that means using it as motivation, then that's what you do.

Did you ever to think, maybe your not too big? Maybe this town's just to small? - Big Fish