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Quotes About Self-worth

Man does not only sell commodities, he sells himself and feels himself to be a commodity.
~ Erich Fromm
Sometimes a woman needs a man for company, no matter how useless he is.
~ Lisa Kleypas, Sugar Daddy
...counselling man to treat her as a slave while persuading her that she is a queen.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.
~ Gertrude Stein
The biggest mistake of the man is that he thinks he doesn't deserve the good and the bad things from his life.
~ Paulo Coelho
All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier.
~ Mary Renault
Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Take back your picture in a frame. Take back your singing in the rain. I just hope you understand sometimes the clothes do not make the man.
~ George Michael
I don't need love or a man to complete me,and someday, you'll find that true for yourself. Suitors will come and go, but you will remain.
~ Amanda Hocking
The man who gets me is getting one hell of a woman.
~ Aretha Franklin
Man is the only animal that when you pat him on the head, his head swells up.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever
~ Joseph Priestley
Most men would rather be shot through with a broad-headed arrow than be described by you.
~ Neal Stephenson
He was emotionally worn out from wondering what she really thought of him, and confused by the fact that he cared so deeply about her opinion. And she, maybe, was beginning to think that if Hiro was so convinced in his own mind that he was unworthy of her, maybe he knew something she didn't. Hiro
~ Neal Stephenson
walking in dignity. I don't know how to put that into a better concept, either, but it has to do with the way one carries oneself in one's life, and the way one honors others, and the path others are taking.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
si te vieras como Dios te ve, sonreirías mucho.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
I tell you, before the cock crows, you will deny Me three times. Every thought of your Self as smaller than you really are is a denial of Me. Every word about your Self that puts you down is a denial of Me. Every action flowing through your Self that plays out a role of "not-good-enough," or lack, or insufficiency of any kind, is a denial indeed. Not just in thought, not just in word, but in deed.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Yet I tell you this: So long as you are still worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
nobody owes you anything
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Choosing to be God-like does not mean you choose to be a martyr. And it certainly does not mean you choose to be a victim.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
All your life you have spent convincing yourself that you are bad. Not only that you are bad, but that the things you want are bad. Sex is bad, money is bad, joy is bad, power is bad, having a lot is bad—a lot of anything. Some of your religions have even got you believing that dancing is bad, music is bad, celebrating life is bad. Soon you'll agree that smiling is bad, laughing is bad, loving is bad.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
They've spent alot of money on me. I'm ashamed.
~ Ned Vizzini
I had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.
~ Ned Vizzini