Quotes About Self-worth

It takes courage to love yourself when you've been told your whole life that you're ugly, or dirty, or a terrorist.

Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey.

I don't play the ugly game, I think everyone is beautiful and I see it in me now more and more.

I don't believe anyone is ugly.

If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'.

If I were old, fat and ugly, I don't know if anybody would be interested in me.

There are no ugly ducklings.

Tammy Faye said, I am so happy that Jessica Hahn is so ugly, because now I don't feel so bad.

Well, I'm clearly not ugly.

I was told my whole life, you're fat, you're ugly, you're never going to amount to be anything.

I don't think I'm ugly, but I never thought I was that special.

I think a woman feels ugly when she's got the wrong man at her side.

I was the overweight kid who didn't have a boyfriend. I listened to other people say, 'You're ugly, you're fat, you're stupid,' and I believed it.

I made mistakes, I know, but I'm not the ugly duckling that some people seem to think.

I grew up believing I was just an ugly girl.

I used to be really comfortable with my body until I started hearing from people I didn't even know who have no relevance to me saying, 'You're ugly. You're fat. You're old.' And I thought, 'Hold on - I was doing alright until you piped up.'

Doubt is what I see with a lot of women, we doubt ourselves. Whether it's because we think we're too fat or ugly or not smart enough, our gender puts ourselves down. But we need to own exactly who we are.

If I had to worry about whether I'm ugly or short, I wouldn't get anywhere.

I never think about my face. I actually just care about what I'm doing - my voice and my character. I don't care about, 'Am I fat? Am I ugly?'

I don't understand how can anyone judge you to be beautiful or ugly based on your body.

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

I would never let somebody say that they're me. That would be the ultimate betrayal of what I stand for.

Usher did the ultimate no-no to me. I will never be with him again, and that is that.

You cannot please everyone, and I think that what's important, ultimately, is to make sure you please yourself. If you start trying to please other people, you'll just go around in circles.