Quotes About Self-worth

They believe they have to earn their value and their worth, and that's why they always try to please.

Every day your child is assaulted with the pressures of not feeling good enough, pretty enough, athletic enough, etc., to be part of a peer group. What does she get from you? Realistic encouragement, kind truth, and empathy? Or criticism, put-downs, and "you ought to know better than that"?

Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

The envier praises me unknowingly.

When I was younger, my whole sense of self-worth was based on whether or not I was working, which was awful. And I had a baby at 20 years old, so it wasn't just about me. At around the age of 30 there was a stretch where I wasn't working - certainly not on anything I liked, anyway - and I started to do other things.

You have to be desirable. And that's why so many woman of my age or even younger are pushed to Botox and plastic surgery, all the things that people say, 'Why do women do this?' Where do you go in your 50s in your career?

Women's lib does not mean imitating men's worst qualities just so we can lower ourselves and be equal to them.

This inevitably puts you in conflict or competition with other people for the simple reason that you build esteem only by comparing yourself to others.

am not exaggerating; it can be scary to see what some people will believe in order to feel superior.

In contrast, solid self-esteem depends on nothing outside the self.

Both Christianity and materialism deny that we have inherent value, that the self is worthy in and of itself.

I'll admit that the idea of being adored for nothing but my face and my body has had an occasional appeal, in the way winning the lottery does. The difference is that I have a much better chance of winning the lottery.

Because, Mom, I'm really proud of you for finally standing up for yourself and ending things with Daddy.

Borderline parents with an insecure sense of self may use jewelry, clothes, and other trappings as proof of their attainment of the idealized happy family, regardless of their means. Rather than unconditional love, nurturance, and open communication, the emphasis may have been on how things appeared to outsiders. Thus the need for expensive cars, respectable jobs, obedient children, well-groomed pets, a carefully landscaped yard. The

I'm tired of feeling ashamed. About my foot.

Ada, please," she said, looking up, "I am not on exhibit in a zoo.

Find satisfaction in yourself first before you ever start seeking it from anyone else.

Better than being slave to a man who has no regard for me other than a broodmare for his children. (Rowena) True. I should hate to be a broodmare for a man. (Stryder)

I'd rather act from the neck up,"Gia said."I feel very sorry for those who try get by on beauty only because when the beauty is gone,what will they have left to build a career upon?

Power is never taken from us. It is only given away," Austen said softly.

Power is never taken fr, om us, it is , only given away

She'd tried so hard to prove she was good enough. And now, with a few simple sentences, Harriett had explained it so plainly. Jo had been good enough all along. They'd made her feel like a failure, when the truth was, they just hadn't wanted her around. There was nothing she could have done.

Most painful of all, she mourned the time she could have spent with her daughter. She'd tried so hard to prove she was good enough. And now, with a few simple sentences, Harriett had explained it so plainly. Jo had been good enough all along. They'd made her feel like a failure, when the truth was, they just hadn't wanted her around. There was nothing she could have done.