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Quotes About Self-worth

Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me.
~ English proverb
We noticed a crasher at the bar - that shows what a real man he is - he's here to show he's not ticked for not being asked.
~ Anonymous
Thanks for the nice introduction. Next to my resume, that's the closest I'll ever come to perfection.
~ Anonymous
You've no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself - and how little I deserve it.
~ W. S. Gilbert
Men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the i point.
~ Susan Sarandon
I can count the number of dates I've had on one hand. I wish that guys would approach me, but they don't.
~ LaToya Jackson
Frankly, I like the fact that I no longer fit the young beauty type-people take me more seriously now.
~ Cybil Shepherd
The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.
~ Joan Collins
Not many people ask me out.
~ Marina Sirtis
If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
~ Max Ehrmann
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
~ The Condorcet
I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
~ Cicero
Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one's own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
~ B. C. Forbes
The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.
~ Baltasar Gracian
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
~ Jacopo Sannazaro
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
~ Alexandre Dumas
He who gladly does without the praise of the crowd will not miss the opportunity of becoming his own fan.
~ Karl Kraus
Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once a minute something generous dies for want of it.
~ John Masefield
A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
~ La Rochefoucauld
There is a certain noble pride, through which merits shine brighter than through modesty.
~ Jean Paul Richter
When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured.
~ English proverb
The infinitely little have pride infinitely great.
~ Voltaire
We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
~ Albert Camus