Quotes About Self-worth

You are your best thing.

If there is somebody with bluer eyes than mine, then maybe there is somebody with the bluest eyes. The bluest eyes in the whole world.

He didn't even care what I looked like. I could be anything, do anything- and it pleased him. Something about that made me mad.

she would never know her beauty. She would see only what there was to see: the eyes of other people.

You think you so cute!" I swung at her and missed, hitting Pecola in the face. Furious at my clumsiness, I threw my notebook at her, but it caught her in the small of her velvet back, for she had turned and was flying across the street against traffic. Safe on the other side, she screamed at us, "I am cute! And you ugly! Black and ugly black e mos. I am cute!

Thrown, in this way, into the binding conviction that only a miracle could save her, she would never know her beauty. She would see only what there was to see: the eyes of other people.

Any man who has to wear another man's name on the back of his shirt may need to ask himself how he views his own manhood.

My life has been of but little worth mostly fild [sic] up with vanity.

Contrary to a widespread assumption that has crept back into Anglo-American political jargon, few derive pleasure from handouts: of clothes, shoes, food, rent support or children's school supplies. It is, quite simply, humiliating.

Contrary to a widespread assumption that has crept back into Anglo-American political jargon, few derive pleasure from handouts:

He made me feel an idiot, even when I knew he was a bigger one than I.

the grandeur false if you were not grand yourself.

It's sad when girls think they don't have anything going on except being pretty.

Maybe I don't have to perfect, I just have to be good enough.

his solid body, the weight of him, his movement, all so real, all so there. It doesn't matter who he is. There are so many of them. Him. Me. Our movement together. Proof, I think again and again, of being worthwhile. Proof of being loved.

I can't afford to spend days in self loathing as everyone expects fat women to do. Self loathing eats your life.

Für mich brauchst du keine Magie, um etwas Besonderes zu sein.

You need never settle for second best. Never.

I don't have the best body in the world, but I know for a fact that I have a really good voice.

I don't read reviews. I haven't read them for probably 30 years. I can't. When they're bad, they're really rough, and when they're good, they're not good enough.

I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?

Alcoholism is a disease of faith. Alcoholics often develop a cynical attitude toward life, not seeing anything to believe in. When you persistently feel the need to change your consciousness through drugs or booze, you are expressing a lack of trust in life itself. And, in some ways, you are expressing a lack of trust in yourself, in your ability to tolerate life undiluted, to find value in your own, unadulterated experience.

Lasting self-esteem comes when kids learn that they belong—to a family, to a community, to a group of friends. When they realize, "I can contribute, I can give something back," that's when they see how important they are.

You may be all too conscious of your own blemishes and feel like that imperfect, rejected block (or an imperfect blockhead), but the Master Artist, who knows what you're made of better than you do, takes your worst flaws and incorporates them into the beauty of his creation-you!