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Quotes About Self-worth

If they want to give you a name, take it, make it your own. Then they can't hurt you with it anymore.
~ George R.R. Martin
Let them see that their words can cut you, and you'll never be free of the mockery. If they want to give you a name, take it, make it you own. Then they can't hurt you with it anymore.
~ George R.R. Martin
Would you throw your life away for pride?
~ George R.R. Martin
Sólo un tonto se humilla a sí mismo, habiendo tantos hombres en el mundo dispuestos a encargarse de esa tarea
~ George R.R. Martin
A modest fellow, this one," the septon said to Ser Lucas. "Were I as large as him, I'd call myself Ser Sefton the Immense. Ser Sefton the Tower. Ser Sefton with the Clouds About His Ears.
~ George R.R. Martin
Let me give you some counsel, bastard. Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strenght. Then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.
~ George R.R. Martin
Let me give you some counsel, bastard," Lannister said. "Never forget what you are , for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.
~ George R.R. Martin
It please her to think that she made a better king than Robert.
~ George R.R. Martin
Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.
~ George R.R. Martin
Then I am not a dwarf. My father will rejoice to hear it.
~ George R.R. Martin
Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.
~ George Santayana
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
~ George Santayana
Shall I wasting in despairDie because a woman's fair?Or make pale my cheeks with care'Cause another's rosy are?Be she fairer than the day,Or the flow'ry meads in May,If she be not so to me,What care I how fair she be?
~ George Wither
being alone is better than being with someone who is just filling space.
~ Georgia Bockoven
Guilt says, "If only you had done it better." Shame says, "If only you had been better.
~ Gerald G. May
Is it ever thus, at the end of things? Does any woman ever count the grains of her harvest and say: Good enough? Or does one always think of what more one might have laid in, had the labor been harder, the ambition more vast, the choices more sage?
~ Geraldine Brooks
One does not have to be a priest to be a man!
~ Geraldine Brooks
Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.
~ Arthur E. Morgan
The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
~ William Hazlitt
Joy is your birthright.
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?
~ Jean Kerr
Every man in the world is better than someone else, and not as good as someone else.
~ William Saroyan
In his private heart no man much respects himself.
~ Mark Twain
To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling.
~ Gail Sheehy