Quotes About Self-worth

If a man doesn't want you at your worst, then he sure as hell doesn't deserve you at your best.

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

How far have you walked for men who've never held your feet in their laps?

Self-esteem is the greatest sickness known to man or woman because it's conditional.

They say a good man is worth fighting for. But a man who's good for YOU shouldn't make you fight just for the right to be in his life.

When a man or woman is truly honest, it is virtually impossible to insult them personally.

Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.

One of the greatest tasks of my life has been to teach the colored man he can be anything.

I guess I'm the most successful man I know. I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world.

I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.

If a man look upon any other man and estimates that man as less than himself, then he is stealing from the other. He is stealing the other's birthright – that of equality.

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.

There's no man, alive or dead, who's going to fault you for living.

I have never loved a man as much as I have loved myself

Woman gives herself as a prize to the weak and as a prop to the strong and no man ever has what he should.

What is outside yourself does not convey much worth; Clothes do not make the man, the saddle not the horse.

Men often treat others worse than they treat themselves, but they rarely treat anyone better. It is the height of folly to expect consideration and decency from a person who mistreats himself.

Every man a king, but no one wears a crown.

I am such a good man, at bottom, such a good man, how is it that nobody ever noticed it?

Man is; it matters to him; this is terrifying unless it matters to God, too, because this is the only possible reason we can matter to ourselves.

I must quit marrying men who feel inferior to me. Somewhere there must be a man who could be my husband and not feel inferior.