Quotes About Self-worth

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

It is possible to be different and still be all right.

Each of us has some unique capability waiting for realization. Every person is valuable in his own existence, for himself alone ... each of us can bring to fruition these innate, God-given abilities.

We are traditionally rather proud of ourselves for having slipped creative work in there between the domestic chores and obligations. I'm not sure we deserve such big A-pluses for all that.

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants, lives so as to give a meaning and a value to his own life.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness, than disbelief in great men.

We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.

What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.

From self alone expect applause.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

I was always willing to take a great deal of the burden of getting along in life on my own shoulders, but I wasn't willing to give myself a pat on the back. I was always looking to somebody else to give me that. ... That was all wrong.

I've learned to take time for myself and to treat myself with a great deal of love and respect 'cause I like me.... I think I'm kind of cool.

If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I've got to get out.

Believing in our hearts that who we are is enough is the key to a more satisfying and balanced life.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.

I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me.

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?

If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself.

A man needs self-acceptance or he can't live with himself; he needs self-criticism or others can't live with him.

It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but [we do know] it is our sacred duty.

Ultimately, love is self approval.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.